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2,275 articlesCareers at Protege: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Guide to Protege's hiring: open remote roles including forward-deployed engineers, partnerships, and product marketing. Covers compensation expectations, the five-stage interview process, and what kind of candidate thrives at the AI data platform.
1.3 Million Clinical Documents Processed Monthly by BastionGPT
BastionGPT added six roles in a week, nine salaried positions total with a median $200k salary band. The hiring surge reflects healthcare‑AI growth, undocumented interview processes, and sector‑wide talent gaps.
$183k Median Salary Tops Sardine’s 37 New Openings
Sardine posted six new roles across Japan, Dubai, Brazil, and Canada in one week, revealing a global hiring surge with 37 open positions in engineering, sales, and support as the company expands into frontier markets.
TensorZero’s GitHub Soars While Its Job Listings Stay Invisible
TensorZero, a Brooklyn-based startup, raised a $7.3 million seed round led by FirstMark Capital, with Bessemer, Bedrock, DRW, Coalition and angel investors. Its open-source LLM infrastructure platform unifies model gateway, observability, evaluation, and optimization.
2.6 Million Specialists Power Labelbox's Alignerr Expert Network
Labelbox acquired Upcraft to deploy AI agents that automate sales outreach and expert recruitment for its Alignerr network, while expanding a finance hub in India to speed expert data delivery for frontier AI labs.
Hidden Cost of Pax Historia’s 5M Monthly AI Requests
Pax Historia, a YC W2026 grand strategy game processing 5M AI requests monthly, with 35K daily active users and 20M+ rounds — plus how early-stage AI startups screen candidates.
CodeAnt AI Hits $1M ARR With Just Five Employees
CodeAnt AI, a Y Combinator-backed San Francisco startup, is hiring machine-learning and backend engineers through a live open-book coding assessment that simulates real production incidents, focusing on AI pipeline skills over traditional algorithm puzzles.
Manufact's Open-Source Library Powers NASA's MCP Agents — Here's How
Manufact raises $6.3M seed to build MCP deployment platform, targeting AI agent connectivity.
Careers at White Circle: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
White Circle’s six August 2026 openings map finance, design, recruiting, events, partnerships, and data‑labeling roles into commercial, product/research, and internal‑ops buckets, revealing a remote‑first hiring strategy across US and European hubs.
Four AI Jobs Posted by rationalGO AI, Leaving Applicants Guessing
Examines whether Rational or rationalGO AI is posting four AI roles, covering the MIT AI and Rationality course, automated screening tools, and the startup's hiring trajectory.
Careers at telli: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Explore telli's AI voice platform hiring: salary bands $42k–$188k, Berlin-based roles, engineering vs go-to-market positions, interview funnel insights, and traits of successful candidates.
Basecamp’s $60M Series B Powers Trillion‑Gene Atlas Drive
Basecamp Research secures $60M Series B to expand its trillion-gene atlas, boosting wet-lab hiring in UK and Boston.
Working at Outpost: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Explores the elusive internal culture of Outpost, a freight‑infrastructure startup aiming to own, operate, and automate truck terminals, examining its mission, operational tensions, hiring signals, and the lack of public employee feedback.
Three‑Person YC Startup Offers $500K Base Salary for Head Role
MadeThis, a YC‑backed AI co‑founder platform, is hiring for four roles. Candidates must present real, end‑to‑end portfolio projects to pass its screening.
Glacier’s Robot Saves 10 Million Items From Landfill Annually
Glacier, an AI-guided recycling-sort startup, is hiring a Robotics Software Engineer in San Francisco. The role focuses on motion planning, algorithms, and cloud infrastructure for robotic sorting systems.
Zero G Talent lists only six Passport jobs, not eight.
No defense contractor named Passport exists; the name is linked to travel documents and a logistics company, not an eight-role hiring wave.
Nine Undisclosed Engineering Roles Await ODIN’s Clearance‑Ready Candidates
ODIN posted six visible roles—two Heads of Design, a Head of Marketing, and three talent contracts—while nine engineering positions remain undisclosed. The London‑centric hiring surge signals brand building, clearance‑ready talent pipelines, and infrastructure migration to t2com.mil.
Working at ABL Space Systems: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
ABL Space Systems pivoted from orbital launch to missile defense after two RS1 failures, laying off staff and hiring senior engineers for power electronics, hardware, launch systems and facilities, with competitive salaries and a focus on subsystem ownership.
Careers at ABL Space Systems: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
An analysis of ABL Space Systems' opaque organizational structure, hiring practices, salary ranges, and location shifts, highlighting what candidates can verify and what remains unknown.
The EMR system Tembo Health expects applicants to know
Tembo Health is hiring for four clinical and clinical-product roles to scale its virtual dementia-care platform under the CMS GUIDE model, providing comprehensive dementia management at no cost to Medicare beneficiaries.
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