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2,392 articlesBoom’s Median Salary $121K Trails Stripe’s $237K by 49%
Boom, a rental‑finance startup, has 9 open roles, mostly engineering, with a cooling hiring trend and median salary around $121k. The article breaks down the roles, required skills, screening process, and application advice.
Careers at Hedge: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Hedge, a 2026-founded wholesale insurance brokerage with roughly two employees, is hiring six founding-level sales roles (five in-office San Francisco, one remote) with base salaries $125k–$250k, emphasizing in-office culture, no equity details, interview as a business audition, and the office as pr
Tsenta’s MRR jumps 13X to $205K in nine weeks, YC data shows
Tsenta, founded by two Rose-Hulman students and backed by Y Combinator, grew its monthly recurring revenue from $15K to $205K in just nine weeks, reaching a $2.5M annualized run rate. The AI-powered platform automates job applications by tailoring resumes per role, integrates with 19 ATS systems, an
Kinro claims first autonomously sold insurance policy
Kinro, a Y Combinator seed-stage startup, seeks founding software and AI engineers to develop an autonomous insurance brokerage that uses AI agents to qualify, quote, and bind small-business policies.
Careers at Ellipsis Health: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Ellipsis Health is an AI healthcare company hiring engineers, sales leaders, and data scientists. This guide covers who gets hired, which teams they join, compensation bands, the interview process, and workplace culture.
239% Surge in AI Applications Fuels Tab’s Two‑Role Hiring
Tab's narrow AI hiring funnel with two roles, the technical screening process, and what it signals for candidates and the AI talent market.
Opalite AI Cuts Medical Interpretation Errors 90% Versus Humans
Opalite Health closed a seed round backed by Y Combinator, Right Side Capital Management, Rebel Fund, and Vaelion Ventures, focusing on AI-powered real-time medical interpretation for healthcare.
Careers at Crux: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
An analysis of Crux's seven salaried roles, salary bands, hiring process, and remote-first work model, showing how the company allocates hires across commercial, operations, and technical teams and what candidates can expect.
Working at Counsel Health: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Explores how Counsel Health’s remote-first, async-driven culture structures work, decision authority, and hiring to enable fast iteration, while examining the traits that thrive and the burnout risks for those needing more guidance.
Working at Wrapbook: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Wrapbook's remote-first hiring model, senior compensation bands, and operating principles for film payroll and production accounting platform.
Blue Origin Posts Flight‑Software Role With $519,716 Top Salary
Space startups are winning flight‑software engineers by offering equity upside, remote flexibility, and rapid mission cycles, compelling incumbents like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to raise salaries, extend retention bonuses, retrain via academies, and build cross‑industry talent pipelines
Careers at Wrapbook: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Wrapbook's hiring focuses on engineering, product, tax, operations, and AI roles, with senior salaries $175k-$324k, remote-first culture, and a multi-stage interview process.
Flick’s hiring surge triples staff as Hollywood jobs fall 28%
Flick, an AI filmmaking startup backed by Y Combinator, is hiring seven roles spanning engineering and go-to-market to build a Figma-like tool for AI filmmaking, seeking hybrid talent with both ML and cinematic skills.
Benchmark Claims Reproducibility But Flip Rate Tops 50% Undermining Trust
Openbenchmarks introduces a reproducible LLM‑as‑judge evaluation pipeline with typed schemas, bias controls, and full audit logs for AI agent scoring.
What Sleeper’s screen rewards instead of traditional résumé keywords
Sleeper, a 200-person fantasy-sports company, posted eighteen engineering, analytics, design, and operations roles, triggering a hiring surge and revealing its skills-first screening process that prioritizes hands-on model deployment over traditional credentials in a competitive AI talent market.
Careers at Solve Intelligence: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Explore Solve Intelligence's hiring process, team structure, salary bands, and what it takes to join their AI patent team.
Paradromics Implants 1,600‑Channel Wireless BCI at University of Michigan
Paradromics has implanted its wireless Connexus brain-computer interface in a human volunteer, a first-in-human milestone that could restore communication for people unable to speak.
Andromeda Offers $250k Salary for Robotics Controls Role
Andromeda Surgical is hiring four engineering roles, including a Robotics Controls Engineer, with salaries up to $250k and equity, after its $15M Series A.
Working at Rippling: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An inside look at Rippling's fast-paced culture, hiring process, employee reviews, and workplace dynamics.
Deloitte Picks Two‑Person Startup for First Enterprise AI Deal
Nivara, a two‑person YC startup, is testing whether a single remote GTM intern can replace a sales floor, reflecting a broader shift toward AI‑driven go‑to‑market engineering roles.
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