Software Engineer

We are an applied AI company building agents for HR teams hiring the world’s deskless workforce

At Achilles, we’re building AI agents to solve the biggest problem for frontline industries — hiring.

Sam is our flagship voice and text agent that owns the entire candidate hiring pipeline — from creating resumes for candidates, to conducting multi-lingual voice interviews, to scheduling in-person final interviews with clients, all without human intervention.

Our products will strengthen the workforce of American businesses by helping them find the right candidates while drastically improving the candidate experience by making sure they get a fair chance at every opportunity.

If you’re excited about building entirely new kinds of products enabled by agentic workflows, and working with businesses in frontline industries, join us.

The Team

Our team has personally recruited 1,000s of hourly workers and generated millions in revenue in this space. There is no team that has more domain expertise than us.

• Read (CEO) — Built the growth function at Traba, an industrial staffing startup, and grew revenue from $1M to $20M ARR. Prior to this, he was in private equity buying and operating industrial facilities. He uniquely understands the challenges facing industrial HR and how to disrupt the sector with AI.

• Ben (CTO) — Lead the engineering team at Traba that built it’s core infrastructure. Prior to Traba he was a senior engineer at Tesla, leading development of, and building their global in-vehicle media streaming services.

• The rest of our founding team hails from Meta, Roblox, Tesla, USC, MIT, Cornell, and Waterloo.

What You’ll Do

• Work at the forefront of LLMs and voice technology.

• Work directly with customers to understand their needs and build high-impact solutions.

• Set the new standard for UX in HR software and agentic products.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience contributing to an exceptional product, interesting project, or hard technical problem.

• Comfort with moving fast, ambiguity, and working hard.

• High standards for code quality.

What We Offer

• Top of market cash and equity for top of market candidates

• In-office working in NYC and opportunities for ongoing collaboration

• 100% subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) plan options

• $250 Wellness subsidization