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2,393 articlesLaylo Hiring Five Roles as Artist Drops Hit $1B Revenue Mark
Laylo is hiring for five key roles—Senior Fullstack Engineer, US Account Executive, Customer Support Specialist, Head of Finance, and Brand Editorial Lead—signaling a strategic shift from artist tooling to scalable infrastructure. These hires reflect the company’s focus on handling high-traffic live
Nansen Mandates Cursor, Claude Code, and MCP Use in Senior Data Engineer Roles
Nansen's $75M Series B led by Accel fuels infrastructure scaling for 500M+ labeled blockchain addresses, targeting institutional demand with AI-native workflows using Cursor, Claude Code, and MCP, while expanding hiring for senior data engineers across Europe.
ATG’s Data Pipelines Role Requires 8+ Years Experience — Highest Bar in the Hiring Wave
Autonomous Technologies Group is hiring nine roles across engineering, design, and operations as it scales its applied AI platform for financial markets, signaling a shift from development to product deployment with a focus on systems engineering over AI theory.
Elroy Air seeks engineers who fly drones and certify them too
Elroy Air's hiring process for its Chaparral autonomous cargo drone requires engineers with dual expertise in autonomous systems and aviation airworthiness, reflecting a structural shift in defense-adjacent autonomy hiring where regulatory compliance and software innovation must coexist.
Working at Juicebox: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An exploration of Juicebox's operational culture, focusing on their core principles of speed and intellectual honesty, their AI-driven recruiting approach, and the high-performance engineering standards required to thrive in their flat organization.
India Added 5.2M Developers in 2026 Yet Faces 1.4M AI Skills Shortfall
AI coding agents are transforming entry-level engineering roles in India, shifting focus from writing code to orchestrating, verifying, and managing AI outputs—creating a skills gap that traditional CS graduates struggle to bridge despite rising demand for software talent.
Solestial Hiring 10 Roles to Build Radiation-Healing Solar Cells for Space
Solestial is hiring 10 roles in Tempe, Arizona, focused on manufacturing, engineering, and operations to scale its radiation-hardened, self-healing silicon solar cells for defense and commercial space missions following its acquisition by York Space Systems.
Careers at Juicebox: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Juicebox, an AI-native recruiting platform backed by Sequoia and DST Global, hires across engineering, product, go-to-market, and customer success with salaries above the 90th percentile, equity, and on-site roles in San Francisco and London. The company values speed, intellectual honesty, feedback
Wedge’s forward-deployed engineers save hospitals $250K per AI agent yearly
Wedge's forward-deployed engineers solve healthcare AI's integration crisis by embedding inside hospitals to build custom agents that fit real EHR workflows, avoid vendor lock-in, and ensure compliance — saving $250K per agent annually while serving nearly two million patients.
Careers at Blacksmith: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Blacksmith, a two-year-old infrastructure company with 49 employees, is hiring across six departments with a focus on generalists who ship. Roles span Engineering, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Design, with salaries ranging from $120k to $380k and a median of $240k. All roles are on-site in NYC
Casco Hires Five Roles to Build AI Agents That Hack Enterprise Systems
Casco addresses the growing security gap in AI agent deployment by building autonomous red-teaming agents that simulate attacker behavior, validated by human expertise from AWS, Microsoft, and government programs. Their platform enables continuous, compliance-ready security testing for enterprises a
Zaymo’s $700K Pre-Seed Round Follows $3M ARR in Just 11 Months
Zaymo raised $700K pre-seed after proving product-market fit, scaled to $3M ARR in under a year by enabling interactive, shoppable emails that drive measurable revenue lift for brands like Fatty15 and Gozney without requiring AMP or engineering.
Two Dots Hiring Six Roles to Fix $120M Housing Fraud Problem
Two Dots opened six full-time on-site roles in San Francisco in August 2026, signaling a hiring surge against the AI venture freeze. The company is building AI-driven verification infrastructure for housing, targeting fraud, income validation, and underwriting automation with real-world impact.
OpenSea bets AI agents will replace human NFT traders after 90% crash
OpenSea pivots from NFT marketplace to AI-native onchain economy gateway, integrating MCP Server, SEA token, and extreme ownership culture to serve AI agents as primary users.
Uniswap Labs Posts 8 Technical Roles as Protocol Layer Expands Beyond Ethereum
Uniswap Labs posted eight technical roles in a coordinated hiring wave targeting protocol-layer development across Unichain, v4 hooks, and Trading API scaling, signaling continued investment despite market pullback.
FAA picks Air Space Intelligence for next-gen ATC, median salary now $265,000 for cleared engineers
The FAA's $11.5M award to Air Space Intelligence for next-gen air traffic control software is reshaping hiring patterns for defense-cleared engineers, with six new roles posted in one week—five in Boston, one in Denver—signaling a rapid ramp-up of cleared talent in civil-military aviation integratio
Vulcan Technologies hits FedRAMP in 11 months, first legal AI startup
Vulcan Technologies, an eleven-month-old Y Combinator-backed legal AI startup, achieved Legacy FedRAMP Ready status in June 2026 — becoming the youngest firm and first legal AI company on the federal marketplace, challenging traditional GovCloud wisdom through a compliance-first engineering strategy
OpsMill Hiring Surge: 9 Open Roles Signal Shift to Systems-First Hiring in Space Tech
The article examines the absence of OpsMill's hiring data on Zero G Talent's board, revealing a category error: OpsMill is an enterprise IT infrastructure automation company, not a space hardware firm, despite aerospace-themed job titles and investor narratives.
Arena Intelligence hits $100M ARR in 8 months, rattling AI benchmark trust
Arena Intelligence reached $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching its commercial evaluation service, triggering a crisis in traditional AI benchmarks and forcing model labs to reassess performance validation. The platform monetizes its free, crowdsourced leaderboard by sel
Working at Belong: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Belong guarantees rent payments to homeowners regardless of resident payment, operating a hybrid U.S.-Argentina team with heavy operational focus in Buenos Aires and growth leadership in Miami, reflecting a decentralized execution model backed by AI-driven automation and strict operational disciplin
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