
Joshua France
Product Engineer at Y Combinator; Duke ECE graduate
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Joined October 2025
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Product engineering at startups and startupβsupport orgs: Joshua currently works as a Product Engineer at Y Combinator (listed on YC's People page and his personal site). His work is described as supporting Investment Operations and internal founder-facing products, indicating strengths building internal tools and operational product features. ycombinator+1
Interdisciplinary technical + finance background: His undergraduate degree blends Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science with minors in Math and Finance, and he completed finance-facing internships (Goldman Sachs, private-equity internship). This combination supports roles that bridge product/engineering and quantitative or investment workflows. github+1
Early hands-on robotics and international upbringing: Raised/educated in Tokyo (The American School in Japan) and active in competitive robotics and teaching robotics programs, suggesting a long-term, practical interest in hardware/embedded systems and STEM education. weebly+1
Experience across consumer tech and growth: Public summaries of his prior roles include hands-on engineering at Amazon (Amazon Go / JWO tech) and growth engineering at Yotta before YC, showing experience with production systems, product-growth experiments, and both consumer-facing and internal tooling. theorg+1
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Competitive robotics (team captain), Model United Nations, and summer robotics teaching. weebly+1
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