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Funding and backers

Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
14
open roles
Backers
2
Entrepreneur First, Earlybird
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 15 First executive search Full-Stack Engineer, Office of the CEO 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Arago Computing SAS its site
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Eric AcherGérantcompany register
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Arago hires

Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
76 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%

Arago scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 76 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Arago develops photonic processors that run artificial intelligence workloads using light instead of electrons. Its aim is to cut the energy consumption of large model inference by an order of magnitude. The company is headquartered in Paris.

News

News exchangewire 3 years ago
ARAGO Teams Up with Broadsign to Bridge DOOH & Digital Ad Transactions - ExchangeWire.com
ARAGO (formerly the Mediakeys Platform) and Broadsign today (June 12th, 2023) announced a technology partnership that brings all the DOOH inventory
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Press release Nasdaq 6 years ago
WISeKey and arago announce unique AI based risk management approach to build a fully secured ecosystem for managing COVID-19 pandemic
WISeKey and arago announce unique AI based risk management approach to build a fully secured ecosystem for managing COVID-19 pandemic. Geneva- September 8, 2020- WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a leading cybersecurity and IoT company and arago GmbH, a
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News Futurism 10 years ago
Watch Arago's HIRO Beat Out Human Gamers in Freeciv
Arago's HIRO artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be able to beat 80 percent of human players in the game of Freeciv. Developers of AI systems are using various video games as a part of their training before moving on to the myriad of beneficial app
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News TechCrunch 10 years ago
Arago's AI can now beat some human players at complex civ strategy games
Arago's flagship HIRO AI product plays Freeciv, a free civilization building simulation that's based on the popular and long-lived Sid Meier's
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News Skulls in the Stars 14 years ago
François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!
When he was seven years old, he tried to stab a Spanish solider with a lance When he was eighteen, he talked a friend out of assassinating Napoleon He once angered an archbishop so much that the ho…
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Arago over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
42
Postings analysed
19
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
Python37%
C++26%
SystemVerilog21%
Verilog21%
Frameworks & libraries
UVM16%
PyTorch11%
SGLang11%
CUDA5%
Databases
PostgreSQL5%
Cloud & platforms
Hugging Face74%
Linux16%
vLLM11%
GitHub5%
AI & ML
LLM5%
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People

Eric Acher
Gérant
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
14
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
69 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
40% ▲
HR
20% ▲
AI/ML
10% ▼
Backend
10% ▼
Management
10% ▼
Industrial Engineering
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Sep 2026
New location: Haifa Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Paris
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Paris France
HQ
15 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 47% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Semiconductors
seen since Nov 2024 job postings
Tel Aviv Israel
Engineering / R&D
8 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Semiconductors, Management
seen since Nov 2024
Earlier presence
Haifa, Israel 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026

Jobs

Equity • In office • Full-Time • Paris • Tel Aviv
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≈ $62k – $110k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris • Tel Aviv
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≈ $49k – $93k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Paris • Tel Aviv
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≈ $48k – $91k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Paris • Tel Aviv
Python
Verilog
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UVM
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≈ $44k – $79k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Paris
Python
C++
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≈ $54k – $96k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Paris
C++
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≈ $58k – $124k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Paris
Python
C++
vLLM
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TensorRT-LLM
CUDA
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ROCm
MLIR
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≈ $86k – $178k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Paris
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≈ $52k – $86k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Paris
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Machine Learning
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≈ $54k – $89k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Paris
Hugging Face
Machine Learning
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≈ $49k – $93k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Paris • Tel Aviv
SystemVerilog
Hugging Face
Machine Learning
Chips/EDA
UVM
Formal Verification
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≈ $46k – $71k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Master's Degree • Paris • Tel Aviv
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