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3,247 articlesWorking at Hebbia: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Hebbia embeds former investment bankers and lawyers inside customer firms to translate institutional workflows into verifiable AI primitives, blending frontier research with deep domain expertise to build finance-specific AI systems that prioritize rigor over approximation.
Corgi Insurance adds 55 roles, senior software engineer pays up to $275k
Corgi Insurance has 55 open roles with salaries from $60K to $270K, reflecting its AI-native full-stack insurance model and shift to skills-based hiring over credentials.
Careers at Hebbia: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Hebbia scales rapidly, hiring engineers and AI strategists to build LLM-powered financial workflows. The company prioritizes systems thinkers who can ship reliable, citation-backed tools in regulated environments, with compensation ranging from $90k–$274k and a strong in-person culture in New York.
Careers at Commonwealth Fusion Systems: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is hiring for manufacturing, assembly, and supply chain roles across shifts at its Devens and Milpitas sites, signaling a focus on precision hardware production for fusion energy rather than pure research. The company emphasizes regulated, safety-critical experience and m
Tanium Hiring 42 Roles at AI-Systems-Security Intersection, Not Pure Cybersecurity
Tanium added seven net-new roles in one week, all at the intersection of AI, systems, and security operations — signaling a deliberate shift toward autonomous endpoint control. Salaries range from $131k–$201k, with hybrid and remote options across global hubs.
Working at Agility Robotics: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Agility Robotics integrates hardware and software development at unprecedented speed, iterating on its humanoid robot Digit every 19 seconds on the factory floor. With rapid hardware revisions, cross-functional ownership, and AI-driven learning from real-world failures, the company closes the loop b
EffiGov hires founding engineer for voice AI in cities at $200k
EffiGov, a Y Combinator S25 startup, is hiring a founding engineer to build its voice AI OS for cities, which automates 311 calls with 72-73% resolution rates in Sumter County and Huber Heights. The role demands production LLM experience and government operations fluency to bridge technical and civi
Mixpanel's 57-Role Hiring Surge Reveals AI's New Salary Floor at $236K Median
Mixpanel posted 15 salaried roles in seven days, signaling a strategic shift toward AI integration as behavioral data becomes essential for enterprise AI. Revenue grew 23% YoY to $210M, with hiring focused on production-grade AI implementation, not experimentation.
Median $200k Salary for Roles Demanding Regulatory Logic as System Design
Method Financial’s nine open roles reveal a shift in fintech hiring: compliance is no longer a checkbox but a core engineering competency, with regulatory fluency embedded in software design, API contracts, and product architecture.
Careers at Agility Robotics: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Agility Robotics hires across robotics, hardware, software, and operations to enable rapid 36-hour deployment of Digit at GXO and Schaeffler sites, with remote-first senior roles and a focus on safety, systems integration, and hardware-software closure.
Working at Xona Space Systems: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Xona Space Systems operates with a flat organizational structure where engineers own subsystems end-to-end, enabling rapid iteration and decision-making. This culture drives speed in deploying the Pulsar constellation as a GPS alternative but creates tension between autonomy and sustainability, attr
Amca's El Segundo Expansion Triggers Surge in Proposal Analyst Hiring
Defense hiring in El Segundo reveals premium salaries for cleared propulsion, magnetics, and proposal analyst roles due to ITAR restrictions, F-35 sustainment demands, and the irreplaceable human role in navigating compliance gates for foreign military sales and contract wins.
Working at Carta: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Carta's hiring philosophy emphasizes transparency as a filter, structured decision-making, and sustained equity alignment. The company uses domain fluency, senior scope output, and geographic flexibility as key hiring heuristics, with compensation bands reflecting a deliberate, process-intensive wor
Careers at Carta: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Carta's hiring strategy reveals a precision-focused approach targeting specialized roles in Private Equity, Fund Administration, and Developer Experience, with salary bands from $56K to $460K and a median of $181K across 29 salaried roles. The company prioritizes domain expertise over generic titles
Revnu Hiring Three AI Roles, Tightening Screening Amid Growth
ASML and Stripe posted 69 and 42 new roles respectively on Zero G Talent's board, revealing a measurable hiring pulse. Early-stage AI startups, by contrast, leave no public footprint—hiring occurs through referrals, stealth modes, or invisible processes, making their talent acquisition patterns unob
Elliptic’s AI model on 200M crypto transactions sparks analyst hiring war
Elliptic released a dataset 1,000x larger than prior public corpora—200M Bitcoin transactions structured into 122,000 labeled laundering subgraphs—enabling AI to detect money laundering patterns by transaction 'shape' rather than wallet labels, dramatically improving detection rates and transforming
Ventura 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
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