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2,393 articlesEmerge Career hires AI social media lead at $110K–$140K to scale Rikers CDL pipeline
Emerge Career, a Y Combinator S22 graduate backed by Reid Hoffman and Vinod Khosla, is hiring its first AI-forward social media lead in New York to build automated content pipelines targeting underserved communities. The role requires experience building custom AI tooling for creative workflows, att
AKASA Seeks Rare Hybrid Talent as Healthcare AI Automation Scales
AKASA is hiring 9–10 roles across engineering, product, compliance, and security, with a focus on hybrid talent fluent in both healthcare revenue cycle operations and generative AI. The expansion reflects surging demand for AI-driven claims and prior-authorization automation, with roles concentrated
Very Good Security pays median $175K for seven roles demanding tokenization expertise
Very Good Security is hiring seven roles with stringent security requirements, including PCI DSS v4.0, tokenization architecture, and zero-trust controls, reflecting a narrow talent pool in payment-grade security engineering.
Thera pulls 330 contractors from Deel as YC payroll startups surge
Thera, a Y Combinator-backed payroll platform, is rapidly hiring engineers while migrating customers from Deel, Gusto, and Rippling. Its AI-native finance OS handles global payroll, compliance, and contractor payments in one dashboard—proving product-market fit and triggering a scaling phase where e
Truss hiring four engineers to build AI tax tools that pass IRS audits
Truss is building an agentic AI tax workflow platform for CPA firms that prioritizes reliability, observability, and regulatory compliance over ML research. The company hires engineers with tax-domain fluency and production systems experience to handle sensitive financial data under SOC 2, IRS, and
Spire's Glasgow defense hiring surge triples spacecraft electronics roles in 18 months
Spire Global is expanding its Glasgow engineering team with defense-focused satellite electronics roles, backed by $13.8M Q4 2025 core revenue and UK public funding, as it shifts toward radiation-hardened avionics and sovereign capability contracts.
Careers at Benchling: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Benchling’s hiring strategy blends technical skill with scientific context, prioritizing senior engineers and customer-facing roles who can bridge wet-lab workflows and software platforms. With 52 open roles as of August 2026—16 in engineering, 14 in customer success, and 11 in sales—the company emp
Kaso’s AI agents pool 5,000+ restaurants, cutting order errors 80% and saving 2 hours daily
Kaso’s AI agents pool purchasing power from over 5,000 independent restaurants across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, delivering chain-level pricing, cutting order errors by up to 80%, and enabling cashback of up to 20% through real-time demand aggregation and supplier negotiation.
Working at Hark: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Hark, Bret Adcock's 2026 AI venture, builds personal AI through full-stack integration—owning models, hardware, software, and UI under one roof. With a 45-person team scaling to 100, Nvidia GPU commitments, and $300k median salaries, it prioritizes end-to-end engineer ownership over traditional hier
Careers at Hark: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Hark, founded by Brett Adcock, raised $700M at a $6B valuation to build a universal AI interface. The company is hiring across hardware, product design, and AI research, staffing with veterans from Apple and Meta to build a multimodal agentic system that operates the web via browser automation, with
Yubico’s Median Salary Hits $210k for Roles Bridging Hardware and Cloud Identity
Yubico's six open roles reveal a strategic shift from hardware tokens to enterprise identity software, hiring for the seam where FIPS-certified keys meet cloud enrollment services and passkey enablers.
Working at Serve Robotics: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Serve Robotics operates with real-world urgency: sidewalk robots make split-second decisions without sprint planning, driving a culture of self-directed engineers who thrive on ownership amid rapid iteration, public scrutiny, and mission-driven scale.
Pax Hires SF Engineers for AI Trade Tower, No H-1B Sponsorship
Pax, a Y Combinator-backed startup, uses an AI control tower to automate duty drawback and tariff recovery for importers by ingesting live CBP data, reconciling documents at the line level, and flagging recovery opportunities — all while requiring licensed broker review to comply with customs regula
Careers at Serve Robotics: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Serve Robotics operates 2,000 delivery robots across six U.S. markets, leveraging Nvidia compute and partnerships with Uber Eats and DoorDash. The company grew from under 100 to 2,000 robots in a year, with 45% of revenue from software monetization. Leadership prioritizes data collection and fleet s
Working at CodeRabbit: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
CodeRabbit operates with a high-velocity, low-process culture where engineers treat the product as the operating system—automating repetitive review tasks, shipping fast, and relying on self-imposed pace. The company hires senior engineers across distributed systems, developer tooling, and applied L
Codingal’s AI curriculum drives 86 NPS as it hires sales staff in Bengaluru
Codingal has rebuilt its K-12 curriculum to make AI the native substrate of every course, from Scratch animations to deployed LLM-powered web apps, with project-based learning, live expert instruction, and STEM.org accreditation — eliminating the wall between coding and AI.
Careers at CodeRabbit: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
CodeRabbit's AI code review agent drives hiring for senior engineers across backend, full-stack, applied AI, and customer success roles, with salaries ranging from $125k to $375k and a strong emphasis on San Francisco-based, ownership-focused talent.
Working at Temporal Technologies: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Temporal Technologies builds a culture mirroring its durable execution platform: async-first, ownership-driven, and transparency-focused. While this empowers self-directed engineers, it risks burnout and isolation for those needing frequent alignment, revealing a tension between autonomy and human c
Superwall Pays $175k to Engineers Who Learned Code From Support Tickets
Superwall trains engineers through support tickets, turning customer issues into full-stack expertise. Engineers start in support, debug real SDK and monetization problems, then transition to full-stack roles after 12 months, gaining deep product intimacy that drives retention and performance.
Mend.io’s 7 Open Roles Demand Hands-On Open-Source Tool Experience
Mend.io is hiring seven roles across engineering, sales, and operations to scale its AI-native application security platform, emphasizing hands-on experience with SCA, SBOM, and proactive security workflows over generic cybersecurity credentials.
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