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3,247 articlesWorking at Varda Space: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Varda Space Industries leverages microgravity to develop pharmaceuticals, focusing on in-house engineering and rapid flight cadence to revolutionize space-based manufacturing.
3.4 AI Jobs Per Candidate Drives Retell Hiring Wave
Retell AI's rapid hiring surge with 27 open roles, high compensation around $250k, and market trends driving AI talent demand. Focus on voice AI engineering, compliance, and deployment challenges.
$11 Billion of Solar Tax Credits Listed on Crux Platform
Crux’s platform automates Inflation Reduction Act tax‑credit transfers for utility‑scale solar and wind projects, cutting deal time from months to days, reducing soft costs, and creating a data‑driven marketplace that has driven a $7‑9 bn annual run‑rate in transferable credits.
The skill Domino requires that 87% of ML projects lack
Domino Data Lab is experiencing a hiring surge with 16-18 remote positions, offering high salaries for platform engineers and governance specialists in AI, reflecting a shift towards operationalizing AI in enterprises.
Working at Dialpad: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An inside look at Dialpad’s engineering culture, product velocity, operating principles, interview process, compensation, and who thrives amid rapid AI-driven growth and public support challenges.
$50M Lockheed Martin Bet Powers Navy’s New Drug Patrol Drones
Lockheed Martin's $50 million January 2026 investment in Saildrone accelerates unmanned maritime defense, supporting Navy counter-drug patrols and integrating combat payloads onto USVs for expanded production in Alameda and Copenhagen.
Careers at Dialpad: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Dialpad's job board reveals hiring across 15 locations focused on agentic AI, with details on roles, salary bands ranging $78k–$237k, interview process, and insights into company culture and advancement factors.
One Resume Tweak Triples Pivotal Future Callback Odds — Which Is It?
Pivotal Future, a Cambridge-based nature-intelligence startup, is hiring across science, engineering, commercial, and operations to scale its biodiversity data platform, highlighting its technology, funding, and hiring challenges in a flooded talent market.
Synopsys Gets $2 Billion NVIDIA Stake to Fuel AI Agent Roadmap
Silimate’s AI-native debugger slashes ASIC bug resolution 11x and PPA optimization 70x, integrating with RTL to cut verification cycles from months to days, helping fabless startups tape out faster amid incumbent AI‑EDA responses and CHIPS Act funding.
Careers at Hermeus: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Hermeus, a $1B aerospace company, builds hypersonic aircraft through a cross-disciplinary team, with insights into hiring, salaries, and operations across multiple sites.
$1B Loan Processing, Zero Churn, 30x Compliance Edge at Salient
Discover how Salient, a $75M Series AI firm, is hiring for 11 AI roles that blend ML engineering with lending expertise, offering salaries and equity.
Careers at Kong: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Kong hires engineers, product, and go-to-market talent globally, with compensation bands from $75k to $295k and a median of $173k. The article details roles, hiring process, culture, and what it takes to succeed at the API and AI connectivity platform.
You Could Land Model ML’s $400K GTM Lead Role—If You Qualify
Model ML, an AI workspace used by top financial firms, is hiring 15 roles across engineering, product, and go-to-market, reflecting a staffing template for AI-native companies in 2025 after a $12M Series A and growing demand for automated due‑diligence tools.
Working at Plaid: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Live salary bands from Zero G Talent show ASML and Stripe offering wide, location‑specific ranges that differ from survey medians. The data reveals ASML’s hardware‑focused, San Jose‑centric pay versus Stripe’s broader, software‑heavy distribution, helping candidates negotiate based on real‑time mark
Careers at Plaid: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
An in‑depth guide to Plaid’s hiring landscape: roles, compensation bands, hiring process, office locations, and the traits that predict success for candidates targeting the fintech API leader.
260 Million Identities Power Checkr’s New Fraud‑Detection Layer
Checkr posted eight senior roles with salaries between $233k and $330k, signaling a major investment in AI‑driven fraud detection. Leveraging its 260‑million identity graph, the company is expanding its Trust platform for healthcare, childcare, and remote hiring amid rising synthetic‑identity fraud
Working at Cresta: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
Cresta's AI platform enhances contact center operations through real-time agent coaching, automation, and remote-first workflows, serving enterprises like United Airlines and Intuit.
Hercules pays median $250k base for 25 AI roles
Hercules, an AI app builder backed by a16z, is hiring 25 roles across Customer Operations, Engineering/Product/Design, and Growth & Marketing. The article covers role breakdown, compensation bands ($100k–$250k base), hiring process, and market impact.
Zep’s Graphiti Hits 94.7% Accuracy at 155 ms Latency
Zep AI open-sourced Graphiti in January 2025, releasing a temporal context graph engine that tracks fact changes, validity windows, and provenance. The engine powers Zep's Context Lake platform, offers sub‑200 ms retrieval, integrates with major LLMs and graph databases, and is gaining rapid enterpr
$2.5 Billion DoD Loss Tied to Labor Shortages
Lumbra, a veteran-founded AI orchestration startup, is hiring engineers and operators for classified agentic AI work, emphasizing active security clearance, mission-critical experience, and rapid growth in the defense AI market.
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