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2,393 articlesVentura quietly recruits for two niche technical roles amid coastal talent exodus
Ventura's tech ambitions center on the Ventura Ventures Technology Center, but its actual employment base is dominated by government, education, healthcare, and retail—with no major aerospace, defense, or tech firms among top employers. The Trade Desk remains the incubator's sole notable success.
Careers at Mariana Minerals: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Mariana Minerals closed a $310M Series B in August 2026 and posted 39 salaried roles with a $63K–$211K salary band (median $170K). The software-first minerals company hires engineers, geologists, and ML specialists across five U.S. sites, with a six-round interview process. Work-life balance lags at
Why Digi’s Two Open Roles Expose a $15.9B Defense Wireless Talent Gap
Digi International is hiring a Principal Electrical Engineer for Wireless Design Services in Hopkins, MN (hybrid) and a Senior Production Technician in Sandy, UT (onsite), reflecting the full hardware lifecycle from design to volume production. These roles highlight the company’s strategic position
Kepler’s optical relay launch triggers 6-role Toronto hiring surge at $209k top pay
Kepler Communications has deployed its first tranche of 10 optical relay satellites, forming an IP-based mesh network that enables real-time, low-latency data transfer between space, air, and ground assets using laser communications and on-orbit GPU compute, marking a major advance in space-based da
Working at Skylo: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Skylo operates as a global 3GPP NB-NTN service provider, connecting devices to satellites via standard interfaces without custom hardware. Its engineering-first culture emphasizes ownership, ambiguity tolerance, and seamless integration across chipsets and carriers, enabling rapid deployment of sate
Careers at Skylo: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Skylo builds a software-defined non-terrestrial network layer using existing satellites to enable global IoT and messaging without specialized user hardware. Founded by MIT and Stanford engineers, the company hires technically rigorous talent across hardware, software, and systems roles, emphasizing
Meticulous’s New-Grad Role Stays Open Six Months, Bar Too High
Meticulous has seven open roles across London and San Francisco, including Forward Deployed Engineers, Platform Engineers, and commercial positions, following a $15M Series A in July 2026, signaling growth in AI-powered deterministic testing.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Hires 52 Roles for SPARC Commissioning Push
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is advancing its SPARC tokamak toward commissioning in Devens, Massachusetts, creating urgent demand for licensed fusion facility operators. The company is hiring for Shift Operators and other technical roles as it prepares for operations in 2026 and net power demonstrati
Machina Labs secures $124M to build AI factory that eliminates tooling for defense parts
Machina Labs secured $124M in Series C funding to expand its robotic forming platform, enabling tooling-free production of missile airframes, aircraft panels, and automotive components. The company plans a 250,000 sq ft facility in Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, or Alabama, leveraging its RoboCraftsman
Careers at JPL: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
JPL's hiring process prioritizes technical depth and mission alignment over resumes, with a rigorous multi-stage interview loop focused on problem-solving under constraints, proven capability, and cross-team collaboration for roles supporting Mars rovers, deep-space missions, and NASA exploration.
Ready Hiring 4 Roles Now: Active TS Clearance Required, Not Preferred
Frontier tech hiring is shifting from AI engineer roles to forward deployed engineers who embed in customer environments, prioritize trust over code, and deliver rapid impact in high-stakes domains like defense and energy. Security clearance, mission alignment, and operational validation now outweig
Working at Illumio: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Illumio's engineering culture is shaped by zero-trust principles: decentralized decision-making, containment over prevention, and autonomous teams. Salary bands, hiring practices, and employee feedback reveal a culture that values technical depth, long-term ownership, and mission alignment over spee
TestGorilla launches AI fluency tests after 59% bad-hire rate revealed
Fifty-nine percent of organizations made a bad AI hire in the past year, revealing a critical gap between declaring AI competency as a requirement and actually verifying it during hiring. Traditional proxies like experience and keywords fail, while AI fluency assessments focus on observable behavior
Careers at Illumio: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Illumio's hiring strategy focuses on senior engineering leadership in Sunnyvale and sales roles in Tokyo and Dubai, reflecting its zero-trust segmentation model and breach containment mission, with compensation calibrated to local markets and a culture valuing autonomy and business fluency.
Byteboard finds tech interviews broken, inconsistent, and biased against women
ASML and Stripe are rapidly expanding technical teams with high salary bands, signaling confidence in stable core architecture and a shift toward systematic capacity building in frontier tech hiring.
RetailNext bets AI-enhanced stores will offset 3.6% foot-traffic decline and $11.8B e-commerce surge
RetailNext names Andrew Golden as its inaugural Chief Experience Officer, signaling a strategic shift from foot-traffic analytics to predictive in-store experience design, including AI-driven labor planning, shelf analytics, and real-time merchandising to reverse declining physical retail traffic.
Careers at ClickUp: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
ClickUp's mission to save users time drives its all-in-one work platform, remote-first hiring, AI-powered Super Agents, and compensation strategy targeting top talent building AI-augmented workflows.
Working at Hippocratic AI: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Hippocratic AI built a constellation architecture validated by 725,000 clinical test calls, enabling safe deployment of over 200 million interactions across 60+ partners. Safety is engineered into every layer — from clinical validation gates to dual-competency hiring — making 'do no harm' a computab
Hapi seeks AI engineers who ship models, not just train them, for 14,000 hotels
Hapi is hiring five AI roles focused on deploying machine learning models into production within legacy hospitality systems, prioritizing practical systems thinking over research pedigree as it scales its enterprise data platform serving 14,000+ hotels worldwide.
GoSats Hires 11 Roles to Scale Bitcoin Rewards Amid India Crypto Boom
GoSats, a Y Combinator-backed bitcoin rewards startup in India, has posted 11 open roles across engineering, product, growth, and partnerships following a $5M pre-Series A raise. The hiring surge reflects a strategic shift from product development to distribution scale, targeting India’s rapidly gro
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