10x is not
for everyone
We don't hire employees. We bring in founder-caliber people who embody our values and raise the bar for everyone around them.
How we work
The typical frontier lab makes you one very good engineer on someone else's roadmap. The typical boutique hands you a spec and keeps you from the customer. At 10x, you own the whole problem: you scope it with the business, make the product call, build it, and ship it. Start to finish.
01 · Extreme Ownership & Reliability
One job, not six.
A consultancy would staff this with a PM, an analyst, an architect, and two engineers. Here it is one job, and it is yours: you read the politics, make the product call, design the system, and build it. You own the outcome, and another senior reviews what you ship before it merges.
02 · 10x Execution
Weeks, not quarters.
You ship to production in weeks and watch real people use it. No proof-of-concept theatre, no pilot dying in a steering committee, no ticket queue or five-team dependency chain. The only thing between you and shipping is the work.
03 · Radical Honesty & Clarity
The truth, even when it costs us work.
You will tell a client the true thing, including the one that means less work for us, and you will be backed for it, not overruled by someone protecting a number. We sell no software, so nobody needs you to oversell. If you are usually the only one willing to say the uncomfortable thing, you will have company.
04 · End-User Centricity
Built for the user, not the committee.
You design for the person doing the actual work at 7am, not the committee that signed off the project. An ontology you can only read produces dashboards; one you can write to changes how the business runs. A win is not a demo that wows the room, it is the person who lost a week to a task telling you it now takes fifteen minutes.
05 · Adaptive Execution
You build with agents, every day.
Agents take the scaffolding, the transforms, the tests, the migrations; your head goes to the model and the problem. This is not a pilot with a Slack channel, it is how we build, on our own toolkit of codified skills that gets sharper after every engagement. The craft is directing agents to a senior standard, not just prompting them.
06 · Strategic Clarity & Simplicity
Built so they can run it without you.
You solve the hardest part, hand it over clean, and move to the next hard problem. You do not homestead a project for the billing. The best solution is the one the client's team can run without you, which is the elegant path, not the elaborate one. Over-engineering is just a liability with better PR.
If you read this and recognised yourself, not aspired to it, the roles are below.
Open Roles
We hire rarely and deliberately. If one of these fits, take the quiz. It's short, timed, and Foundry-specific.
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – Databricks
Own Databricks delivery for strategic clients end to end, working directly with the founders. Remote-first; 120–150k CHF + bonus for Switzerland-based hires, top of local market (purchasing-power-adjusted) elsewhere in the EU.
View roleSenior Forward Deployed Engineer – Palantir Foundry (Zurich)
Lead Palantir Foundry & AIP delivery for strategic clients from our Zurich hub. Hybrid, within ~1.5h of Zurich, working directly with the founders. 120–150k CHF + bonus.
View roleWhat a 10x'er looks like
after 2 weeks
Two weeks in, you are shipping real work to production, owning it end to end, and trusted like the senior you are. No onboarding theatre, no shadowing, no waiting for permission.
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Feel like you're already a 10x'er?
We hire founder-caliber engineers with 4+ years of Foundry experience.