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3,240 articlesMassachusetts Biotech Lost 3,600 Jobs. This Stealth Firm Is Hiring.
RA Capital's Raven incubator launches a stealth oligonucleotide delivery company in Cambridge, building an antibody-oligonucleotide conjugate platform for extrahepatic delivery beyond the liver, muscle, and kidney.
$85M-Backed Sprig Hires for Just Six Roles
An analysis of Sprig's six open roles and what they reveal about the company's pivot to an agent-first survey platform, including hiring priorities, interview screening, compensation bands, job board discrepancies, and agentic architecture priorities.
Working at Hadrius: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An inside look at Hadrius, a New York-based agentic compliance platform for financial institutions. Explores its flat, cross-functional culture, $18K office proximity stipend, founder-led decision-making, salary bands, and what it takes to get hired at the AI-driven regtech startup.
Project44 Splits Into Two, Caps Staff at 600, and Bets on 'Infinite Labor
Project44 splits into Project44 and LSP44, betting AI agents replace human coordination in global freight. Autopilot launches an agentic execution layer for logistics workflows, promising infinite labor, outcome-based pricing, and a shift from dashboards to autonomous supply chain decisions.
OfferUp Serves 56 Million Users but Is Hiring for Just Four Jobs.
OfferUp is hiring just four roles via Greenhouse: a Senior Cloud Engineer, a Colombia-based SDE II, and two contract product designers. It covers pay bands, aggregator discrepancies, interview steps, headcount decline from 627 to 396, and what the narrow slate signals about its lean model.
$250K-$300K Engineering Jobs Now Screen for AI Agent Supervisors
Greptile's TREX shifts AI code review from static analysis to runtime execution, changing engineering hiring toward agent supervision. Covers $25M Series A, salary bands, work-life balance debate, and competitors Sourcegraph, Semgrep, CodeRabbit, and Graphite.
Working at Greptile: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Greptile founder Daksh Gupta sparked controversy by advertising 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., six-to-seven-day work weeks. The AI code-review startup uses blunt transparency to hire generalists who embrace high intensity, high autonomy, and top-market pay in San Francisco.
Careers at Greptile: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Greptile is hiring across 17 roles with a median salary of $250,000. This guide covers open engineering, sales, and product jobs, pay bands, interview details, and office locations in San Francisco and New York.
Tenor's $150K-$200K AI Role Filters Out Résumés, Requires One Artifact
Tenor is hiring a founding engineer for agent systems via an artifact-first screen: no cover letter or résumé, just one shipped system proving ownership of harness, runtime, memory, and verification. Covers the San Francisco role, $150K–$200K salary, and how to clear the artifact gate.
Toei, Kodansha, TBS Back ¥50 Billion AI Round for Anime Tooling
Toei Animation adopts generative AI for storyboards, inbetweening, coloring, and backgrounds. Crunchyroll reverses course, banning AI from subtitles, dubs, and creative work. The split reflects anime's labor crisis and diverging engineering paths for studios versus platforms.
VoiceOS Has Two Live Roles. TheAntiJobBoard Lists None.
VoiceOS, a Y Combinator voice-AI startup, shows two open roles while one directory lists zero. The article covers conflicting company descriptions across four domains and what applicants must verify before applying to frontier-tech startups where directories disagree.
Careers at Nori: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Nori Robotics, a Y Combinator-backed startup building the $1,688 A3 household robot, has posted ten San Francisco roles spanning $48K–$250K. The breakdown covers salary bands, hiring process, office location, and what the founder looks for in candidates across hardware, AI, and research positions.
The Robot Helps You Load the Dishwasher. It Also Watches.
Humanoid robotics is shifting from hardware to physical data collection as the key bottleneck for embodied AI. Companies like Figure, Apptronik, 1X, Nori, and Tesla are turning factories and homes into data farms, deploying cheap robots to crowdsource demonstrations for training policies.
Ami Labs' $1.03 Billion Seed Hires Seven—All On-Site
Ami Labs is hiring for seven on-site roles in Paris, Montreal, New York, and Singapore focused on world models, planning, and safety systems rather than generative LLMs. Covers technical filters, location constraints, and application tactics.
Careers at Elroy Air: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Elroy Air's hiring guide covers open engineering roles, base salary bands from $118K to $280K, the Byron CA work location, and what candidates need to know about the opaque hiring process for Chaparral drone certification.
Workday’s Agents Run HR Workflows. Buyers Still Migrate by Spreadsheet.
Workday has shipped autonomous AI agents across HCM, finance, and IT, moving beyond copilots to teammates that run full workflows. The rollout covers payroll, audit, planning, and performance agents under an Agent System of Record. The article covers data migration and flags AI-washed vendors.
Working at Manifold Bio: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An inside look at how Manifold Bio runs interdisciplinary protein engineering teams, from mCode barcoding and in vivo screening to hiring filters, compensation bands, and the values driving its biologics platform.
To Get Hired at Dexter, Stop Searching for Dexter.
Zero G Talent lists one Founders' Associate role at frontier-tech Dexter in Berlin, reporting to founders Caterina Kiehntopf, Vincent Garrigues, and Bella Wu. Generic 'Dexter jobs' searches surface unrelated manufacturing, staffing, and robotics firms; candidates should search by founder names inste
Careers at Manifold Bio: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
A detailed guide to Manifold Bio's open roles, salary bands, interview process, and work locations in Boston and San Francisco, covering wet-lab, computational, and business development positions at the AI-powered biologics discovery company.
The Pentagon Has the Models. It Lacks the Cleared Engineers.
The Pentagon has opened IL6/IL7 classified networks to commercial AI vendors, but the binding constraint is cleared engineers, not models. This article covers the TS/SCI talent shortage, air-gapped hiring, salary premiums, and the split between model builders and cleared deployment talent.
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