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2,394 articlesAbacus AI Lists 14 Open Roles, Six Senior Sales Execs at $300k–$400k
Abacus AI is hiring aggressively, posting six senior sales roles with $300k–$400k salaries across metros, interview focuses on hands‑on coding and system design.
OpenAI’s $1.5M Bonus Wave Meets Jarmin’s SF Hiring Surge
Jarmin, a Y Combinator-backed startup offering autonomous AI engineers, is recruiting human engineers to build its product amid a fierce AI talent war in San Francisco’s SOMA, driving up salaries, real estate demand, and competition with giants like Google and OpenAI.
EliseAI’s $250M Series E Fuels 99 New Hires Across AI Teams
EliseAI secures $250M Series E to aggressively expand in housing and healthcare AI, hiring hundreds across engineering, sales, and product roles with salaries up to $450K.
Adept AI’s $350M Series B Values Startup at $1B
Adept AI secured a $350M Series B at a $1B valuation, highlighting its Action Transformer agents that learn from demonstration to automate UI tasks, amid rising enterprise AI agent adoption and competitive moves by UiPath and Microsoft.
s $43,00 Agent Builder Role Tops AI Hiring Market
Decagon’s Agent Builder Org separates Agent Builders who craft and tune AI agents for enterprise customers from Agent Software Engineers who feed field learnings back into the platform. The company is hiring aggressively, with roles paying $88k–$430k, emphasizing end‑to‑end delivery, simulation‑base
Kong’s Enterprise Sales Roles Pay $360k–$400k OTE Across US
Kong is experiencing a hiring surge with 36 open roles offering salaries from $56k to $400k. The company is expanding due to AI Gateway 3.0 and increased demand for API and AI solutions, highlighting their platform's scalability and features.
$160M Deal for Eight Hybrid Tugboats Fuels Arc Boat’s $50M Series C
Arc Boat Company raises $50M Series C and partners with Curtin Maritime to deliver eight hybrid-electric tugboats, aiming to reduce emissions and fuel costs in marine transport.
$380,000 Salary Awaits Cresta’s Senior Sales Director
An in-depth look at Cresta's hiring surge, detailing open roles across engineering, sales, and more, plus insights into its technical and behavioral interview processes for engineers and enterprise sales candidates.
Replit’s ARR jumps from $2.8 M to $150 M in under a year
Replit's journey from a browser-based classroom REPL to an enterprise-grade AI agent platform is highlighted by Visa's investment, the launch of Replit Agent, enhanced security via Socket Firewall, enterprise partnerships, and a shift in a shift toward AI-generated full-stack apps.
Helion posts 110 jobs across engineering, median $220k
Helion Energy expands with 110 new roles, offering median $220k and director salaries up to $320k, as it moves from prototype to commercial fusion plants.
ClickUp Pays $1M Salaries After Cutting 22% of Workforce
ClickUp laid off 22% of its workforce (~286 employees) while offering remaining individual contributors up to $1M salaries to build AI agents that replace their work, framing the move as a radical AI embrace and reallocation of savings into Brain2 development.
Archer Pays $525k Salaries While Burning $472M Cash
Archer Aviation is hiring 162 roles across engineering, certification, and operations, offering salaries up to $525k. The focus is on safety‑critical systems integration to meet FAA certification and the 2028 Olympics air‑taxi goal.
Wordware’s $30M Seed Round Triggers 9‑Role Hiring Surge
Wordware raised a $30 million seed round, pivoted from an AI IDE to the consumer product Sauna that learns team context and automates repetitive work, and is betting on a five‑day office week to speed multi‑agent development, triggering a hiring surge and regulatory scrutiny.
Devoted Health posts $345k medical director role amid hiring surge
Devoted Health is rapidly hiring for AI-enabled utilization management roles to boost its Medicare Advantage star ratings, adding eight high‑salary positions in a week as it scales its integrated care platform amid regulatory scrutiny and competition.
Electrician posts at Base Power list $32‑$37k, far below Texas median $60k
Base Power Company expands to Illinois, posting 163 roles focused on battery deployment and warehouse operations, reflecting rapid scale after a $1B funding round.
$327.9B DAF Assets Power Chariot's AI Gift‑Processing Surge
Chariot’s new AI‑powered platform replaces spreadsheets for donor‑advised fund (DAF) processing, automating data ingestion, coding, and export to CRMs like Salesforce and Blackbaud. It streamlines $64.6 B in annual grants, cuts manual hours, and meets BSA/AML compliance.
The task that decides Instacart hires — and why candidates dread it
Instacart has 126 open roles, 63% senior, remote-first across US and Canada. Its four-round hiring includes technical screens, take-home work, and final interviews. Salary bands span $48k-$335k, with AI roles paying premiums.
Profound Lists 88 Open Roles, Pay Up to $395k
Profound has 66 active job postings with salaries ranging from $70,000 to $395,000 (median $200k). The article details hiring growth, founder insights, market demand for AI visibility expertise, and the company's rigorous interview process.
OpenGov’s AI ERP Now Powers Services for One in Three Americans
OpenGov launches AI‑native ERP platform, integrating budgeting, permitting, procurement, and asset management into a unified data layer, driving adoption across U.S. cities and counties.
Menta Lists 170 Open Roles, Zero Space‑Engineering Titles
The article examines claims of a surge in space industry hiring, revealing that Menta's posted roles are primarily education positions in Illinois, highlighting a disconnect between space talent narratives and actual job postings.
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