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2,393 articlesCareers at Ursa Major: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Ursa Major's hiring strategy reflects its dual-use propulsion model, with workforce focused on test stands, machine shops, and integrated design-manufacture-test operations across Berthoud, Briggsdale, and Galeton sites to serve both Army hypersonics and commercial launch customers.
Starburst fills 10 of 13 roles at senior level or above, VP role pays up to $300k
Starburst’s senior-heavy hiring reflects a shift from invention to execution, with 13 open roles concentrated in engineering, sales, and product, signaling enterprise production maturity and a focus on Iceberg optimization and AI-agent governance.
Careers at Planet Labs: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Planet Labs hires specialists across hardware, software, and mission operations to build and operate its Earth-imaging satellite constellation, with roles tied to measurable outcomes like deforestation alerts and power line monitoring.
Ava Labs posts 14 roles with seven paying over $337,000 salary band
Ava Labs has 14 open roles, with seven offering salary bands up to $337,543, signaling a strategic push into institutional finance, regulated asset issuance, and enterprise-grade infrastructure across protocol, platform, and application layers.
Working at HappyRobot: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
HappyRobot reached a $1.2B valuation in 2026 with a decentralized, urgency-driven culture that ships fast, hires founder-like generalists, and builds AI agents by embedding engineers in customer operations — rejecting Silicon Valley norms while scaling globally.
Top PE firm completes 24 interviews in 4 days at one-sixth network cost
Qualitate raised $7M to automate expert interviews for hedge funds and private equity, achieving 30x revenue growth and 200%+ net retention by delivering AI-moderated research at one-third the cost of traditional networks, with clients running hundreds of interviews in days.
Epidemic Sound Bets Onsite Work in Two Hubs Will Unlock Music-Tech Scale
Epidemic Sound has 15 open roles concentrated in Stockholm and New York, reflecting a strategic bet on integrated creative-technical teams to scale its direct licensing model and support three billion daily video views.
What It Takes to Land a Clarasight Role: AI Data Pipelines, Travel Systems, and Carbon Accounting
Clarasight, formerly Climate Club, raised $11.5M Series A to build an AI-native platform for corporate travel and expense management, unifying fragmented data from TMCs, cards, and HR systems to enable automated approvals, emissions tracking, and spend visibility. The company is hiring 18 roles acro
Working at Neuralink: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Neuralink's culture is defined by rapid iteration, clinical accountability, and decentralized engineering ownership driven by surgical timelines and FDA milestones, attracting engineers who thrive on ambiguity and technical depth while posing significant burnout risks for those needing structure or
Doppel hires 18 roles at $356k median as AI impersonation attacks surge
Doppel's 17 open roles, with salaries up to $400k, reveal a talent vacuum at the intersection of AI, behavioral psychology, and real-time security operations as the company shifts from detection to automated disruption.
Careers at Neuralink: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Neuralink's hiring process prioritizes demonstrated execution over pedigree, focusing on engineers who can ship brain-computer interface hardware and software under aggressive timelines. Roles span firmware, robotics, signal processing, and compliance, with compensation reflecting scarcity of multid
Working at Apptronik: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Apptronik's engineering culture prioritizes physics, reliability, and real-world deployment over hype, shaped by NASA Valkyrie roots and a mission to deliver $50,000 humanoid robots for factories and warehouses through cross-functional ownership and data-driven iteration.
Novig’s $105M Funding Fuels $250k Security Hires After Record CFTC Approval
Novig secured rapid CFTC approval as a Designated Contract Market, enabling nationwide launch across all 50 states under a single federal framework. This milestone, achieved in June 2026 after $100M+ in venture funding, bypasses state-by-state licensing and drives aggressive hiring for engineers ski
Careers at Apptronik: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Apptronik's 23-person engineering team has iterated through nearly 80 custom electric actuator designs to deploy Apollo humanoid robots in Mercedes-Benz factories and GXO Logistics warehouses by 2025. The team emphasizes hardware-software integration, with leadership from Sebastien Cotton (hardware)
Passage Labs expands to 16 roles, prioritizing systems thinking over coding speed
Passage Labs is scaling with intention, prioritizing systems thinking over technical brilliance in its hiring. With 16 open roles anchored at HQ and targeted hires in India, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan, the company is building a judgment-centric talent platform where AI augments — not replaces — human d
Sygaldry Technologies Raises $139M to Build Quantum-AI Servers for Defense AI
Sygaldry Technologies raised $139M in Series A funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures to build quantum-classical hybrid servers targeting AI training energy efficiency, differentiating from general-purpose quantum computing rivals.
Working at Perplexity: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Perplexity's rapid growth from zero to 800M monthly searches reflects its founder-driven, flat structure where technical leaders ship fast, prioritize autonomy, and value relentless learning over credentials — shaping a high-leverage culture that rewards self-directed engineers and filters for those
Candid Health hires 26 roles as AI healthcare automation race intensifies
Candid Health's hiring surge reflects real-time scaling amid AI-driven RCM market expansion, with 26 open roles, above-market pay, and strategic hiring in SF, NY, and Denver to win top talent.
Working at Replit: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Replit's Agent 4 enables parallel task execution across auth, database, and design with no central dispatcher, turning prompts into production-ready software through 'vibe coding' — where humans refine AI-generated first cuts in real-time environments.
Maze Therapeutics Raises $150M to Scale APOL1 Kidney Trial Ops
Maze Therapeutics raised $150 million in a registered offering to scale clinical operations for its APOL1 and PKU/CKD programs, not as a rescue but to fund pivotal trial execution, CRO oversight, and regulatory readiness under ICH E6(R3), leveraging positive Phase 2 HORIZON data and rare disease pol
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