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3,246 articlesYour Pay Could Jump to $141K in Pliant's New U.S. Fintech Roles
Pliant announces a hiring surge for its U.S. expansion, adding roles across engineering, product, sales, partnerships, risk and marketing. The company targets vertical‑specific leaders in travel, agencies, embedded SaaS/fintech and banking partnerships, backed by a $40M Series B and a Banking‑as‑a‑S
Kalshi Hits $22 Billion Valuation After 200‑Fold Volume Surge
Kalshi's $22B valuation and AI-driven growth in prediction markets, outpacing competitors like Polymarket and Citadel through funding rounds, user expansion, and strategic hiring.
Neuralink Pays $331K Top Salary While Neurotech Averages Under $100K
Neuralink's rapid hiring surge with 75+ open roles, median salary $119k, and expansion into Texas. Focus on interdisciplinary roles in BCI tech, regulatory compliance, and real-time software.
Tiles Launch Flat in Fairings, Build Kilometers‑Wide Structures
Rendezvous Robotics emerged from stealth in September 2025 with a $3 million pre‑seed round led by Aurelia Foundry and 8090 Industries to develop TESSERAE self‑assembling tiles. The technology enables large‑scale orbital structures without human hands, highlighted by an upcoming ISS Gen‑5 demonstrat
Deepgram Unicorn Leap Fuels Real‑Time Voice AI at the Edge
Deepgram secures $130M funding for voice AI innovation, launching Flux Multilingual model and Snapdragon edge deployment to enable low-latency, multilingual voice interactions in enterprise and defense settings.
ConocoPhillips Alaska AI Leads Offer Up to $300k
Anchorage's AI job market booms with high salaries, focusing on senior roles in energy, telecom, healthcare, and logistics. Companies prioritize deployed models for harsh environments, impacting salary negotiations and talent acquisition strategies.
Pomelo Hires Fast While Tightening Its Competency Screen
Pomelo Care posts 20+ open roles in clinical, tech, and ops with median compensation of $190k. Focus on virtual care, patient experience, and scaling clinical models.
Your Next Fintech Role Could Earn $250k by Mastering AI Context
Mercury's AI context layer enables efficient AI agents in fintech, driving compliance, hiring, and operational efficiency through governed knowledge infrastructure.
Transaction Volume Surges 50-Fold at Jeeves Since Series B
Jeeves expands with 54 remote-first roles in fintech, hiring AI engineers and product managers across Latin America and beyond, driven by $75M credit facility and 50x transaction growth.
Mariana Minerals Offers Up to $240k for Hybrid Engineering Roles
Mariana Minerals is experiencing a hiring surge driven by demand for critical minerals needed for AI and defense, posting dozens of hybrid engineering and software roles across Houston and San Francisco, reflecting a software-first, vertically integrated model to accelerate mineral production.
€15 B AI Campus Deal Fuels Pune’s Robot‑Data Surge
Intelligence Factory leverages human demonstration data with sensor gloves to train advanced manipulation models, challenging traditional robotics data approaches.
Tenex TX® Procedure Treated 240k+ Patients, 0.001% Complication Rate
Explores 10X AI’s hiring strategy, its Google Cloud SecOps‑based platform, unverified 61‑role claim, screening processes, candidate experience, talent‑market impact, and what the company does not seek in applicants.
42 Robotics Roles Posted, Median Salary $230,000 at Atoms
Travis Kalanick ends eight‑year stealth mode, rebrands City Storage Systems as Atoms and outlines a plan to deploy specialized wheeled robots in food, mining, and transport, backed by a hiring surge and $1.25B capital.
Abacus 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.
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