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Overview

Primitive builds email infrastructure for AI agents, giving each agent a real address that it can send and receive from. Hosted functions turn incoming mail into structured triggers for automated work. The product treats email as an interface between agents and the people they work with.

News

News a16z.news 13 days ago
Intelligence is the Primitive. Applications are the Diffusion Layer.
How durable AI-native products can price, package and productize model gains for industry.
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News spiffworks.substack.com 21 day ago
The Primitive Puppet Show
21% of the internet is AI pretending to be human (2). How can we use AI to improve communication rather than thwart it?
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AI Memory for Claude: An Honest 4-Way Comparison
Four tools, four bets about what AI memory should do. Cost, privacy, and which wins for your workflow -- from a practitioner who built one of them.
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Technologies

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Tech DNA
Rust
AI/ML
AI Agents
Kubernetes
Other
Rust
Stack modernity Cutting-edge
85/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
AI Agents 3 jobs Required
$230k +7% vs market
Rust 1 job Optional
$230k Median
Kubernetes 1 job Required
$230k +28% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
AI Agents
14%
Kubernetes
10%
Rust
3%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Rust Sep 2026
Kubernetes Sep 2026
AI Agents Sep 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$230k
Typical range
$230k
Open positions
3
3 Jobs
Middle 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 3 $230k $230k
Highest paying role Product Engineer $230k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
3
3 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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.
Backend
33%
DevOps
33%
Product
33%
Activity Timeline
Added Rust to stack Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
primitive.dev
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Product
San Francisco
seen since Sep 2026 company site

Jobs

Email Infrastructure Engineer

Verified live · 2 hours ago 5 hours ago
$190k – $230k per year • Equity 0.2–0.8% • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Rust
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Forward Deployed Engineer

Verified live · 2 hours ago 5 hours ago
$190k – $230k per year • Equity 0.2–0.8% • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
Apply

Product Engineer

Verified live · 2 hours ago 5 hours ago
$190k – $230k per year • Equity 0.2–0.8% • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
AI Agents
Apply