Head of Developer Experience

The posting, as Code Metal wrote it

ABOUT CODE METAL

Code Metal is the leader in automated software engineering you can trust. As AI writes more of the world's code, the bottleneck in software has shifted from writing code to verifying it works, and AI cannot verify its own work with certainty. Code Metal takes a fundamentally different approach: constrain AI to what it does reliably, verify every step independently of the model using formal methods, and keep engineers in the loop on the decisions that matter. The result isn't code that probably works — it's code that is provably correct, with auditable proof. Customers including the U.S. Air Force, L3Harris, RTX, and Toshiba use Code Metal to modernize legacy code, optimize performance on real hardware, and move prototypes to production, fast. Founded in 2023 with offices in Boston and San Francisco, Code Metal is funded by Accel, Salesforce Ventures, B Capital, Smith Point Capital, J2 Ventures, Shield Capital, Overmatch, RTX, and others.
Learn more at codemetal.ai http://codemetal.ai.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Code Metal's forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) solve hard problems inside secure customer programs every day. Along the way, they invent tools, pipelines, and patterns that make our platform faster and more reliable. That field innovation is one of our richest sources of product value.

We're hiring a leader to capture that innovation and turn it into products that customer engineers can use on their own to automate software engineering with trust.

You'll own the developer experience, where engineers build, translate, verify, and review agent work, with FDEs as customer zero. You'll standardize what works, decide what becomes commercial product, prove it with design partners, and bring it to market.

The goal is to clear away the noise and bespoke work so FDEs and customer engineers can focus on the problems only they can solve. You'll report to the SVP, Head of Product. It's a builder's role: you'll set the strategy, build the team, and ship the first version alongside them.

Location: Remote (U.S.), with 25% travel.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Field-to-product engine: Treat FDEs as customer zero. Consolidate and standardize their tools and pipelines, capture repeatable patterns, and decide what becomes commercial product and what stays custom.
• Feedback from secure environments: Build a reliable way to bring product improvements back from air-gapped and secure deployments.
• Developer experience: Own strategy and roadmap for the interfaces where engineers build, translate, verify, and review agent work, and iterate on them directly.
• Repeatable results: Turn proven FDE workflows into interfaces, templates, skills, and guided flows, so the same inputs produce the same results whoever runs them.
• Trust and compliance: Surface lifecycle artifacts and auditable proof in the review workflow, and let customers encode their own standards, so engineers can trust the output and defend it.
• Design partners and value:

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• Hands-on depth in agentic developer tools and AI-assisted SDLC, including leading enterprise adoption of them.
• A track record of cutting through complexity to find simple, elegant product solutions.
• Product judgment to tell a one-off customer request from a repeatable product need, and the discipline to say no.
• Ability to ramp quickly into deep technical domains and earn credibility with engineers and technical founders.
• Strong writer and presenter who makes complex technical ideas clear for executives, engineers, and customers.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance if required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Consulting or professional services background, especially building products alongside delivery teams.
• Experience building products for developers, engineers, or other highly technical users.
• Exposure to government, defense, or other regulated environments.
• A public body of work on AI adoption, agentic engineering, or software strategy.
• Experience mentoring product managers and building teams from scratch.

BENEFITS

• Pay depends on experience, but we strive to be at the upper end of the salary range
• Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
• 401k with 5% matching
• Paid Time Off (uncapped vacation, plus sick and public holidays)
• Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement
• Relocation assistance for qualifying employees

Wage Transparency - The salary range for this role is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as the final offer amount may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, individual proficiency, skills, experience, and location.

We are an equal opportunity employer. US Citizenship may be required for certain project assignments involving security clearance.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.