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3,240 articlesSalesforce Pays $3.6B for AI Talent as 1.6 Million Roles Sit Empty
Salesforce acquires Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6B, its largest AI acquisition, to enhance customer service AI agents.
Careers at kapa.ai: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Insight into kapa.ai's hiring practices, including open roles, salary bands, equity, and the three-stage interview process for engineering and GTM positions.
$40B Annual Chargeback Loss Slashed by AI Retail Compliance
Explores how AI-native platforms like RetailReady, Osa Commerce, and RetailPath automate retail chargeback compliance, reducing losses by up to 55% and turning a $40B drain into a data problem solved by LLMs, computer vision, and agentic workflows.
Working at Flink: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An inside look at Flink’s work culture after a 2026 data breach, highlighting its robotics‑first engineering focus, hiring practices in Zürich, employee praise for technical depth and autonomy, and criticism of management support and ambiguous direction.
Working at HyLight: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An inside look at HyLight, a founder‑led frontier‑tech startup in Paris building autonomous airships, covering its high‑pace work environment, hiring criteria, compensation bands, values, and what makes candidates thrive or struggle.
Careers at HyLight: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
HyLight, a Paris‑based startup, is hiring engineers for hydrogen‑powered airships that inspect pipelines, power lines, and railways. Roles span GNC, embedded software, full‑stack, mechanical integration, electronics, and quality management, with salaries ranging €45k–80k.
Shield AI Doesn't Build Airframes. It Just Won a Pentagon Production Contract and a $12.7B Valuation.
Shield AI secured a Pentagon production contract for its Hivemind autonomy software, marking a shift from startup to prime contractor in the Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
$50M Weekly Pentagon Orders Run on a 10-Person AI Team
The article explores how fragmented defense procurement paperwork stalls Pentagon orders, introduces AI-driven logistics platform SalesPatriot, its $50M weekly order volume, recent €4.2M seed round, five open roles, and its rigorous, mission‑focused hiring process.
Careers at Arketa: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Arketa outlines its hiring mix across five core functions—AI/platform engineering, product design, growth marketing, finance, and sales—with published salary bands ranging from $40k to $240k, remote and hybrid roles, and insights into its interview process, equity, benefits, and employee retention.
Therapists Lose $71,500 Yearly to Paperwork, Klarify Aims to Cut
Klarify launched on June 30, 2026, with 8,300 therapists across five countries and a spot in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, an AI-native operating…
Working at Ooak Data: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Ooak Data has cut ingestion-to-delivery time by 3x across data from 20 companies while generating revenue "well above 7 figures" from multiple frontier…
Careers at Ooak Data: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Ooak Data, a Y Combinator S26 startup, is hiring across Paris and San Francisco, assigning technical leadership roles to Paris and commercial GTM and data partnership roles to San Francisco, with salary ranges and equity details highlighting its data‑layer focus for frontier AI labs.
Los Angeles video engineer postings hit 362,000 amid talent crunch
TikTok advertised roughly 2,000 video tech engineer roles in San Jose alone. The global Video API market hit $6.7 billion in 2024 and is projected to…
Careers at Humaans: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Humaans details its hiring approach for agentic AI HR tech, outlining London and San Francisco teams, open roles, values‑based interview process, compensation bands, equity terms, benefits, and traits of successful candidates.
Working at Halluminate: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Halluminate builds benchmarks for AI agents in knowledge work, combining a small core team and expert network to create transparent evaluations like Westworld Finance Diligence Bench and DealTrace, emphasizing technical depth, domain expertise, and a lab-like culture.
Neuron7.ai Offers $21K for 20 AI Roles—87% Below the AI Median
Neuron7.ai is expanding its team across engineering, AI, and field-service roles, with 18-20 open positions as of October 2026, focusing on senior talent and domain expertise.
Careers at Halluminate: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Halluminate, a remote AI startup founded in 2024, pays median $225K for AI/ML roles, hires for technical and expert tracks, and builds reinforcement‑learning environments to evaluate frontier models on finance‑specific tasks.
The 1 Job at Centaur.ai Filters for Values, Not Just Code
Centaur.ai, a Y Combinator W19 startup with 45 employees, has only one full-time opening—a remote Technical Product Manager for labeling tools. The article explores its unique hiring process, values-driven screening, and how the single role reflects its human‑AI collective intelligence model.
Careers at GoSats: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
GoSats, an eight‑person fintech, hires by exception, focusing on ownership density. The article details its leadership, engineering‑heavy structure, salary bands for roles like Head of Revenue and VP Growth, a three‑stage interview process, and what makes a candidate stand out.
$180M in Orders, 2 Founders, 3 Jobs: The Startup Racing a Drone Threat
IMPACT Drones is hiring three engineering roles for autonomous interceptor drones, with details on compensation, requirements, and the company's defense-focused growth.
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