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3,240 articles2% Equity, $90K Base: The YC Startup Betting Big on Two Engineers
Conviction, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring two engineers to build infrastructure for autonomous agents trading real money. Discover the distinct roles, interview process, and what it takes to join.
This Startup Does in 30 Seconds What Takes School Districts 3 Days
Scout, an AI-native student information system, automates compliance, enrollment, reporting and student success for K-12 schools, challenging legacy platforms like PowerSchool with integrated, agentic workflows.
This Startup Processes 3B+ Users. It Has 26 Employees and 2 Open Roles.
Cinder, a trust-and-safety infrastructure company, uses a rigorous multi-stage screening process for its open roles, requiring engineering rigor, abuse-pattern empathy, and cultural alignment. This article breaks down the hidden criteria and applicant strategies.
The $113M Accounting Startup Collapsed. Balance's $4.7M Replacement Does the Work in Real Time.
Balance's AI agents automate bookkeeping for SMBs in the UK and Denmark, providing real-time reconciliation and reporting with human accountant review.
Origin Bio Hires Two AI Roles With Trust as Core Filter
Origin Bio is hiring for two key roles—Head of Data Partnerships and Computational Biologist, Spatial Transcriptomics—both remote-eligible and anchored in San Francisco, reflecting its focus on securing proprietary data and translating spatial biology for AI model training.
Careers at Ohm: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
The article examines hiring practices across three entities named Ohm: OHM Advisors (civil engineering), the Open Hiring Matrix framework, and Ohm Labs LLC (AI platform). It details their hiring criteria, processes, compensation benchmarks, and workplace culture, emphasizing attitude-first hiring, r
Aspect Unifies Five Creative Tools Into One AI Platform, Cutting Workflow Exceptions by 60%
Aspect Inc. launched an AI-powered platform that consolidates media storage, review, and asset intelligence into a single workspace, replacing five fragmented tools with unified indexing, local streaming, and an agent that understands media content to automate non-creative workflows.
Careers at Obviant: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Obviant hires senior engineers, analysts, and product leaders to build AI-driven defense acquisition systems, with roles split between Arlington and Tampa, emphasizing clearance eligibility, mission alignment, and experience in classified environments.
Atlas Kitchen’s Hiring Surge Reveals AI E-Commerce Startups Value Grit Over Pedigree
Atlas Kitchen is hiring for four key roles—Member Advisor, Software Engineer, Founding Applied AI Engineer, and Head of Risk—revealing strain in its AI-powered e-commerce architecture as it scales past 30,000 merchants and $60M in GMV.
Working at Multiply Labs: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Multiply Labs' robotic clusters automate biologics manufacturing with GMP compliance, delivering 74% cost reduction and 100x throughput. The integrated stack combines robotics, software, and quality systems, requiring cross-functional engineers who treat compliance as a design constraint. Hiring emp
Paragon Hires First Sales, Engineer Roles to Deploy AI Agents in Industrial Workflows
Paragon, a Y Combinator Winter 2025 startup, builds AI agents that integrate with legacy ERP and CRM systems in industrial distribution and B2B sales, targeting revenue-generating workflows like order processing and forecasting without requiring rip-and-replace migrations. The company’s modular plat
Careers at Multiply Labs: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Multiply Labs hires across robotics, software, quality, and manufacturing roles to rebuild biomanufacturing with GMP-grade automation. Teams span San Francisco and Milan-Pavia-Turin, with salaries from $90K to $320K and a focus on engineers who ship regulated physical systems.
Atlas Robotics filters 75% of applicants with take-home builds not theory
Atlas Robotics uses take-home assignments and recruiter iteration to hire engineers who can ship real-world robotics systems, prioritizing production readiness, iteration speed, and systems thinking over pedigree or academic credentials.
Careers at Mirelo AI: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Mirelo AI raised $41M to build generative audio models and is hiring engineers across the stack with a focus on systems engineering ability, remote-first work, and production-grade delivery. Roles span research, infrastructure, product, and go-to-market.
Tempo's $398M AI fitness bet hinges on iPhone cameras replacing $2,500 Studio hardware
Tempo discontinued its $2,500 Studio hardware in 2023 and pivoted to an app-only model using iPhone cameras for AI form correction, shifting from hardware-dependent fitness to pure software personalization.
Working at Mindpeak: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Mindpeak, a 25-person company shipping regulated medical devices, operates through autonomy and cross-disciplinary ownership rather than org charts. Work gets done when engineers, pathologists, and regulators collaborate directly—picking up the phone to solve real-world clinical problems, driven by
Careers at Mindpeak: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Mindpeak, a Hamburg-based AI pathology company, is scaling its team with open roles in HR, engineering, and product. The hiring process emphasizes mission alignment, technical skill, and cultural fit across five stages, reflecting a shift from prototyping to regulated medical-device delivery.
Laminar Hiring 5 Roles for Factory Floor AI: $114K–$180K for Senior Edge Platform
Laminar is hiring for edge AI and hardware roles focused on factory-floor deployment, emphasizing systems engineering, industrial integration, and ownership in ruggedized environments where latency and reliability are critical.
Working at Inductive Bio: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Inductive Bio uses AI agents like Indy and Beacon-2 to accelerate drug discovery by running 247M virtual experiments, improving dose prediction accuracy, and enabling chemists to focus on high-value decisions in a distributed, hybrid team model.
Contra Hires 7 Roles All On-Site Despite Remote-First Branding
Contra lists seven salaried roles in New York City and San Francisco, all requiring on-site or hybrid work despite its remote-first branding. Salaries range from $150K–$250K with a median of $200K. The hiring pattern reflects a broader trend in frontier tech toward physical density for high-velocity
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