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3,243 articlesEighteen Months Ago, 'Agent Engineer' Didn't Exist in European Job Postings. Sierra AI Now Has Five Open in London.
Sierra AI is building a full-scale European hub in London, hiring across engineering, product, sales, compliance, and operations. The company is recruiting multilingual talent in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English to deploy AI agents across European enterprises. With a $10
TSMC sent 200 interns into its Phoenix fab this summer. Most will get job offers. None of them will work on silicon.
TSMC's Arizona internship program grew to 200 students from 60 universities in 2025, fueling its $165B semiconductor campus. With fabs ramping up, internships are the primary hiring pipeline for thousands of engineers needed to staff advanced chip production in the US.
Sierra AI Pays Up to $390,000 for Engineers Who Never Write a Button — and 132 Open Roles Show the Enterprise UI Is Already Dead
Sierra AI closed a $950M Series E at a $15B valuation, reaching $150M ARR and 40% Fortune 50 penetration in under two years. Co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, the company is pushing conversational AI agents beyond customer support into sales, with its Ghostwriter product enabling agent creat
Navan's $923M IPO Is Fueling a Hidden Hiring Blitz in Tel Aviv — and the Roles Reveal a Company Rebuilding Around Self-Hosted AI
Navan's $923M IPO at $25/share values the AI-powered travel platform at $6.2B, marking the largest enterprise travel listing in years. The article explores its growth trajectory, Brazil expansion via Smartrips acquisition, and the engineering behind Navan Edge, its LLM-driven travel assistant.
Sierra AI hit a $15B valuation — and its job board shows the agent era has already split engineering into 20 new specialties
Sierra AI raised $950M at a $15B+ valuation, signaling investor belief that enterprise AI agents are a lasting software category. With $150M ARR, 40%+ Fortune 50 adoption, and rapid hiring, Sierra scales agent deployment via Ghostwriter—a platform turning customer experience into autonomous agent co
Legion Health Automates 95% of Psychiatric Admin Work — and Its Job Board Reveals What Autonomous Medicine Actually Requires
Legion Health became the first US company to win state authorization for AI to prescribe psychiatric medications. With $20M raised, $5M+ ARR, and 95% administrative automation, the YC-backed startup is scaling fast — hiring aggressively and building its own clinic infrastructure to power agentic car
Most AI Video Startups Are Hiring to Find a Market. Mirage Is Hiring Because It Already Has 20 Million Users and $28.4 Million in Revenue.
Mirage, formerly Captions, raised $75M in growth financing led by General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, bringing total funding past $175M. The New York-based company is pivoting from consumer video-editing app to AI foundation-model lab, with plans to expand into Asian markets and build generative
Anduril Added 160 Roles in Seven Days to Build AI Drone Wingmen the Air Force Just Put Into Production
On June 17, 2026, the U.S. Air Force awarded Anduril Industries and General Atomics production contracts for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, advancing semi-autonomous drone wingmen into full-scale manufacturing. The decision, four months ahead of schedule, signals a historic shift in defense procurem
ASML Is Hiring 1,000 People in Taiwan This Year — and Every One of Them Will Work Inside TSMC's Fabs
ASML is hiring 1,000 additional employees in Taiwan in 2025, a 20%+ headcount increase driven by surging demand from TSMC's advanced chip roadmap, including N2 nodes, High-NA EUV adoption, and 2D-material transistor development.
TSMC, ASML, and imec Just Fabricated 2D Transistors on a Full 300mm Wafer. The Hiring War to Manufacture Them Is Already Underway in Phoenix.
Imec, ASML, and TSMC have jointly demonstrated complementary 2D-material transistors on a full 300mm wafer at 50nm gate pitch — a first that moves atomically thin channels from lab curiosity toward manufacturable reality, signaling a potential post-silicon future for sub-2nm CMOS logic.
An AI agent can buy from a million Shopify stores without a human clicking checkout. The legal framework is from 1986.
Wildcard, founded in 2025 by Kaushik Mahorker and Yagnya Patel, raised $500K from YC to build an agentic API gateway using its open-source agents.json format. It also runs an AEO/GEO analytics platform for e-commerce brands and enables instant checkout via Agentic Commerce Protocol.
Everlaw Is Hiring 33 People to Build the AI Stack That Stops Lawyers From Getting Sanctioned
Everlaw launched EverlawAI Deep Dive in October 2025, a generative AI tool that lets legal teams ask natural-language questions across document collections and get citation-backed answers in seconds. Built on retrieval-augmented generation, it runs on the user's own data and avoids hallucinations by
Utah let an AI prescribe Prozac without a doctor. Legion Health's hiring spree shows what comes next.
Legion Health has crossed $5M in annual recurring revenue and raised over $20M, signaling real demand for AI-native psychiatric care. The company automates 95% of administrative work and became the first to receive regulatory authorization for an AI system to prescribe psychiatric medications, initi
A 139-Person Startup Is Training Foundation Models on TikToks to Replace the Entire Camera-to-Timeline Workflow
Mirage, formerly Captions, raised $75M to replace the camera-to-timeline production workflow with a single AI system. The company is hiring ML engineers for its generative video team in NYC, with salaries ranging from $175K to $275K.
AIM's Ouster Lidar Deal Looks Like a Supply Agreement. The Engineering Requirements Buried in It Are Actually a 21-Person Recruiting Blueprint.
AIM Intelligent Machines raised $50M in June 2025 with a clear mission: convert venture capital into engineers as fast as possible. The Redmond startup retrofits heavy equipment with plug-and-play autonomy, targeting mining and construction sites. With 21 open roles and a strategic lidar deal with O
SpaceX Reuses Boosters for a Decade. Blue Origin Just Hired Its First Refurbishment Engineer.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test on May 28, 2026, destroying pad infrastructure and exposing deep structural failures in its reusability program. Despite the setback, the company is aggressively hiring test and refurbishment engineers to fix the issues and resume lau
DO-178C Was Written for Deterministic Code. Shield AI Is Using It to Certify a Neural Network to Fly Alongside Manned Fighters.
Shield AI's June 2026 U.S. Air Force production contract for Hivemind mission autonomy software marks a pivotal shift from prototype to industrial-scale delivery. The award positions the company as a production-grade software supplier across the Collaborative Combat Aircraft ecosystem, with 18 new h
SpaceX Spent $15 Billion on Starship and Flew Five Flights. Now It's Hiring the Engineers Who Keep Factories From Breaking.
SpaceX's Starship program faces a critical bottleneck: scaling factory production to meet ambitious launch cadence targets. While Falcon 9 achieves rapid reuse, Starship's complexity demands new industrial engineering roles focused on equipment reliability, maintenance, and high-rate manufacturing i
Relativity Space Has Never Reached Orbit. NASA Just Handed It a Mars Mission — and 17 New Job Postings in Seven Days Show the Clock Is Already Ticking
NASA selected Relativity Space to design and launch a Mars orbiter carrying the Aeolus atmospheric instrument suite on Terran R in late 2028. The mission anchors Relativity's Interplanetary Sciences Program, backed by Eric Schmidt's leadership and capital. Meanwhile, Long Beach has emerged as an add
The Air Force Just Awarded Its First Fighter Contract to a New Company Since the 1970s. Anduril's Hiring Data Shows How Hard It Will Be to Deliver.
The U.S. Air Force awarded production contracts to Anduril Industries and General Atomics for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, marking the first time since the 1970s a new company has won a fighter aircraft program. Anduril's FQ-44A will enter production alongside General Atomics' FQ-42A,
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