{"id":2535597,"url":"https://alion.io/job/helicon-founding-software-engineer","title":"Founding Software Engineer","company":{"id":4404113,"name":"Helicon","domain":"heliconindustries.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/helicon-3","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":5,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Los Angeles, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":94000,"max_usd":191000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":985},"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Digital Twin","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-08T09:01:24Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-15T08:47:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":99,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":98},"description":"Helicon's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to advanced materials. We combine AI software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing to reinvent how the West maintains a competitive edge.\nWe hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care about what you’ve built. At Helicon, everyone owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. Every day we build what most think is impossible.\nWe're backed by the investors who were first believers in Applied Intuition, Valar Atomics, Factory, Astranis, Flock Safety and Relativity Space.\nWhat You'll Do\nArgos: our OS that orchestrates everything from raw material to finished part (supply chain, quoting, pricing)\n\nArgos Sim: CAD automation, DFM for composite parts, mold generation and simulation to speed up design cycles\n\nFactory automation: integrate real-time data from manufacturing equipment and sensors into a 24/7 digital twin powering everything we do.\n\nBuilding alongside world-class hardware engineers with full autonomy\n\nWho We're Looking For\nNeed:\n2+ years of production-grade shipping (FE: TypeScript, BE: Python/GO)\n\nTrack record of shipping high-quality products at scale\n\nYou own your work, figure shit out and build\n\nNeed to work fast and continuously master your craft\n\nNice to have:\nExperience with manufacturing processes, automated systems, tooling\n\nExperience with CAD, computational geometry and 3D environments\n\nWe're not for you if:\nYou won't get your hands dirty and don't want to build in the physical world\n\nYou're used to a dedicated PM, QA and design support\n\nYou need multiple rounds of review before anything ships\n\nWhy Join\nBethlehem for steel. Helicon for composites.\nFor too long the most advanced materials in the world have been left to the exquisite, we're industrializing composites enabling the systems of the future to be built at mass scale.\nWe want the best people and have no bureaucracy. That includes covering meals and paying for products that make you more productive and our partners stronger.\nITAR Requirements\nTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2462,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T14:10:28Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.203,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":98,"expected_fill_days":17,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/helicon-founding-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/helicon-founding-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T10:56:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16734,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4404113},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4404113"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhelicon-founding-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhelicon-founding-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhelicon-founding-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/helicon-founding-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhelicon-founding-software-engineer"}]}