H Company
0 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles at H Company, plus 1 closed. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Jul 2026 · no roles open right now
Our take
Why H Company
A $220M-seed Paris frontier lab whose open-weight computer-use models punch above their price — and whose FDEs own customer implementations end-to-end across an Austin/Paris/remote-US footprint.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Frontier lab
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want frontier agentic-AI work at a European lab with a real US foothold
- People who want to own a customer implementation end-to-end, not just a slice of it
- Builders who clear a 3+ year SWE bar plus hands-on LLM/agentic-workflow experience
- Candidates weighing a $150K–$200K US cash band against founding-era equity
The largest seed round in European AI
H Company was founded in 2023 in Paris by Laurent Sifre and a group of ex-DeepMind researchers, and in 2024 raised a $220M seed round described at the time as the largest AI raise in Europe. Backers included Eric Schmidt, Amazon, Accel, Bpifrance, UiPath, Bernard Arnault, Xavier Niel and Samsung. By 2026 it employed around 90 people, with offices in Paris, London and New York.
Agents that drive a computer, cheaply
H builds computer-use agents. Runner H (Nov 2024) paired an LLM with a 2-billion-parameter vision-language model; a 2025 open-source Chrome agent hit 92.2% on the WebVoyager benchmark; and the 2026 open-weight Holo3 matched or beat larger closed models on computer-use benchmarks at roughly a tenth of the inference cost. The FDE's job is getting these agents working against a customer's real screens and workflows.
What forward deployed means here
FDEs integrate H's agents with customer tools, architect the scalable services around them, and own successful implementation end-to-end — then feed field signal back into product fit. When a lab ships computer-use agents, the FDE is the person who makes them reliable inside a customer's messy stack, so the seat carries real influence over what the product becomes.
Comp and the bar to clear
The US band is $150K–$200K cash — competitive for an early lab, but below the top US frontier-lab tier; Paris seats follow French norms and rarely publish comp. The role wants 3+ years of software engineering, hands-on LLM/agentic-workflow experience, a backend language (Python, Go, Node or Java) and some frontend familiarity. Weigh founding-era equity alongside the cash.
A genuinely transatlantic field org
Seats sit in Austin and Paris plus remote US — a dual-continent deployment function that's unusual on a mostly US-centric board. A US-based FDE can work remotely, while the Paris side keeps H close to its research core. It points to a company scaling its field org across two continents while still early.
Who thrives, and who bounces
Thrives: engineers who like customer-facing ownership and agentic systems, and are comfortable spanning US and European contexts. Bounces: anyone wanting pure-IC research or fully hands-off product work — the seat is implementation-first, and success is measured by a customer running H's agents in production, not by a merged PR.
Questions candidates ask
Is H Company remote-friendly for FDEs?
Partly. There are seats in Austin and Paris plus remote US, so a US-based FDE can work remotely; Paris roles follow local norms and keep the field org close to the research team.
How much do H's FDEs make?
The US band is $150K–$200K cash — competitive for an early lab but below top US frontier-lab totals. French seats typically don't publish comp. Weigh founding-era equity alongside the number.
What background does the FDE role want?
3+ years of software engineering, hands-on LLM/agentic-workflow experience, a backend language (Python, Go, Node or Java) and some frontend familiarity.
Is H a research lab or a deployment shop?
Both. It trains its own agentic and computer-use models (Runner H, Holo3) and deploys them into customers via FDEs, so the field role sits unusually close to the product.
Analysis updated 2026-09-25
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