We are hiring

Build the service that makes fulfillment run.

We embed engineers with manufacturers we believe we can move to production within a quarter. Small team, real customers, paid pilots from day one. We work from San Francisco, on-site with our partners. If you want to live close to the work and ship fast, read on.

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How we work^[04]

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Forward-deployed operators

We embed with manufacturers and automate the process they already run, and stay until pricing and fulfillment hold on their own.

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Live in weeks

We stand up working systems in weeks: real production go-lives you can mark on a calendar.

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The process is the moat

When catalog, suppliers, and the plan of manufacturing are live, fulfillment holds. We build that layer first.

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One procurement layer

Specs, supplier calls, POs, BOMs, work orders, and missing vs excess inventory in a single live view from week one.

Open roles^[03]

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Founding Engineer

Engineering

San Francisco · Full-time

Own whole surfaces of the service: the catalog and supplier layer, and the agents that price, call, and place the next PO.

Ship connectors, pipelines, and agents end to end
Work directly with design partners on real factory data
Strong systems and data engineering; pragmatism over polish

How to apply

Email [email protected] with a few lines on who you are, why now, and links to your work (GitHub, LinkedIn, recent projects). No cover letter needed. We read every one.

Open a pre-filled email

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Forward-Deployed Engineer

Forward-deployed

On-site at customers (EU / US) · San Francisco · Full-time

Live on factory floors. Stand up a working pilot in weeks, extract the real requirements, and operationalize the workflow with the customer.

Embed with manufacturers; turn messy reality into shipped software
Comfortable with legacy systems, DXF / PDF / Excel, and ERP exports
Customer-facing, fast, and allergic to multi-year integrations

How to apply

Email [email protected] with a few lines on who you are, why now, and links to your work (GitHub, LinkedIn, recent projects). No cover letter needed. We read every one.

Open a pre-filled email

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Founding GTM / BD

Go-to-market

San Francisco · Travel · Full-time

Turn factory-floor conversations into paid pilots. Own the pipeline from first visit to signed SOW alongside the founders.

Sell to mid-market manufacturers and the operators who run them
Run focused pilots that prove value, then expand
Operator empathy: you can talk catalogs, suppliers, POs, and fulfillment

How to apply

Email [email protected] with a few lines on who you are, why now, and links to your work (GitHub, LinkedIn, recent projects). No cover letter needed. We read every one.

Open a pre-filled email

Who you will work with

Achilles is two founders and a small team. You will work directly with us, on real customers, from day one.

Co-founder & CEO Jacek Prus, Co-founder & CEO

Jacek Prus

Co-founder & CEO · San Francisco

Leads go-to-market and lives in the build. Runs the paid pilots and the relationships with the manufacturers we embed with across Europe.

Current Foods (YC S20): $25M raised, 2,000+ stores, acquired 2023
Mersenne: co-founded, micro-nuclear reactors
Has stood up manufacturing lines himself

Co-founder & CTO Paritosh Kulkarni, Co-founder & CTO

Paritosh Kulkarni

Co-founder & CTO · San Francisco

Leads product and the thesis. Spends his weeks on factory floors, turning pricing, supplier calling, and fulfillment into software that ships in weeks.

Columbia chemical engineer; a decade in applied AI
T1 Energy: built the ERP-to-MES pipeline that removed 40+ analyst hours a day
Grifols: Principal AI Engineer; founding AI/ML at Teal Omics (acquired by Grifols)

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Want to build with us?

If you are exceptional and you care about the physical economy, reach out anyway. Tell us what you would build and why now.

Email us

[email protected] · San Francisco