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3,246 articlesSpire'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.
Working at United States Space Force: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
The U.S. Space Force operates under a centralized, mission-first hierarchy where precision, accountability, and adherence to protocol are prioritized over innovation or autonomy, shaping daily operations, hiring, and employee experience.
Podium Automation’s $18M Series A triggers first dedicated Technical Recruiter & People Partner hire
Podium Automation's $18M Series A funded its first full-time people hire — a Senior Technical Recruiter & People Partner — signaling that scaling hardware requires systematizing talent as much as technology.
Careers at United States Space Force: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
The U.S. Space Force hires civilians across operational, engineering, and program-management tracks at five key installations, with hiring driven by mission-team fit rather than generic technical qualifications. Salaries follow the federal GS scale, capped at $197,200, and prioritize clearance eligi
Lance’s Hotel AI Agents Cut Call Volume 30% While Handling More Requests
Lance deploys AI agents that operate hotel software like human employees—seeing screens, clicking buttons, and completing tasks end-to-end without APIs. It reduces front desk call volume by over 30% while handling more guest requests manually impossible, focusing on resolution over conversation.
Working at Jeeves: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Jeeves operates on a flat, autonomous model where individual ownership, radical transparency, and speed over consensus drive execution. Success depends on self-direction, asynchronous communication, and comfort with ambiguity in a globally distributed workforce.
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