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3,246 articles$300 Million Series B Gives Amca a Second Source for the $10,000 Component That Can Ground a Fleet
Amca secures $300M Series B at $1B+ valuation to bolster aerospace/defense supply chain via AI-driven manufacturing and factory expansion, targeting critical component shortages in F-35 and M1 Abrams programs.
RTX Hiring 177 Roles: What’s the Secret to Passing Their Rigorous Screen?
RTX expands hiring with 177 roles across engineering, systems, and manufacturing, driven by strategic programs, compliance demands, and defense tech innovation.
RTX Adds 183 Jobs—Only Those With Clearance, AI Skill, and Cross‑Unit Collaboration Pass
RTX is accelerating hiring with 183 open roles across its Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon units. The focus is on AI/ML, cybersecurity, and cloud engineering, demanding cross‑business collaboration and clearance‑ready talent to drive defense innovation.
Conveo Raises $5.3 M to Cut Market‑Research Time 100‑Fold
Conveo, an Antwerp-based startup, secured $5.3M in seed funding led by Y Combinator to develop an AI platform automating the full research loop—study design, recruitment, AI interviews, analysis. The solution addresses slow, costly traditional methods by enabling rapid insights via AI-moderated voic
Stepful’s $55M Hires 27 Engineers, Not One Instructor
Stepful posted 27 open roles focused on product and engineering, not clinical training. Walgreens builds its own pharmacy tech pipeline. AI-guided online training shows completion signals, but Stepful lacks published graduation stats. Nurses, doctors, and state grants excluded.
3,326 Raytheon Roles Sit Hidden as RTX Careers Page Shows Zero
RTX public careers page shows zero roles despite thousands of open positions across its three subsidiaries: Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon. Explores Workday gate, filters, clearance, tactics.
40% of Contracting Corps Vacant as Space Force Hires 100/Month
Space Force Space Systems Command reverses 2025 civilian cuts with a 100/month hiring surge, prioritizing budget, contracting, and cyber roles in Colorado Springs where primes like Lockheed Martin expand to chase a growing space budget.
181 RTX Jobs Screen for 'TS/SCI' Before Skills or School
RTX's hiring process filters candidates by security clearance and division-specific technical jargon before recruiter review. Applicants must list active clearance prominently and mirror job description keywords to pass automated screens. Networking and tailored resumes help beat the filter.
Oracle's $9.3B NetSuite now chases Rillet's $70M round
Rillet, an AI-native ERP startup, raised a $70M Series B to challenge legacy accounting incumbents. The article explores its customer land-grab, engineering hires, NetSuite's bolt-on AI response, and continuous close benefits for finance teams.
Bastion’s $275K remote VP Finance outearns its engineers
Bastion hires a remote VP of Finance at $200K–$275K to own regulated stablecoin rails end-to-end, reflecting a shift where enterprises rent compliance from crypto infrastructure providers like Circle, Paxos, and Fireblocks.
Wonderschool's $3B payments stack is hiring, but not for AI
Wonderschool shipped an AI oversight engine for state child-care subsidy payments, exposing fraud risks. It is hiring SF payments engineers to scale its $3B stack, while rivals Brightwheel and Procare hold payments moats.
25,000 Accenture AI Staff Lag as 1-Role ProSights Wins 15 PE
ProSights, a YC-backed AI startup, won 15 of the 25 largest private equity firms and 4 top banks without a sales team. Its autonomous agents extract unstructured portfolio data directly into clients' systems, addressing spreadsheet fatigue and data quality issues that cost firms millions. Consultanc
RTX's 181 defense jobs vanish for applicants missing one flagged line
RTX advertises 181 defense roles across three units behind a Workday algorithmic gate requiring clearance and unit-specific keywords. The article examines the screening filter, tips to beat it, and the post-screen human values gap.
Cumulus Pays $150k–$300k for One Hire to Erase a Team
Cumulus Labs, a YC W26 startup, is hiring a founding ML platforms engineer to own Paladin orchestration and Ion inference engine, unifying GPU scheduling, multi-tenant serving, and observability to replace fragmented ML stacks and boost throughput on NVIDIA Grace hardware.
One Lab's Embedded Engineers Stole a Client From OpenAI
Job listings for forward-deployed engineers surged 700% from 2025 to 2026 as AI labs embed engineers at client sites to drive enterprise adoption. Roles demand experience, travel, and pay premium salaries, shifting value from models to deployment.
The Chemistry Copilot That Hires Zero Chemists
b12 Labs, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 startup, launches an AI copilot that plans chemical syntheses and translates natural language into executable lab protocols. The platform integrates with automation hardware like Chemspeed and Opentrons, and paid pilots with major pharma show 98% first-plate yiel
Anduril Posted 1,983 Roles Yet Can't Fill Lexington Bonding Stool
Anduril Industries has moved sensor packaging in-house at a Lexington cleanroom, using wire bonding to assemble cooled infrared image sensors after Copious and AIRS acquisitions. The shift underscores a microelectronics technician shortage and lagging training pipelines.
An NVIDIA-Backed Lab Pushed Antibiotic AI Into Claude — And A Rival Copied It Same Day
NVIDIA backs Basecamp Research with cash and compute to train EDEN foundation models for gene insertion, later integrated into Anthropic's Claude Science, as rival NVIDIA-backed biotech labs race to launch their own AI platforms.
€6.5B SpaceX Rival Forms as Thales Alenia Space Hires Across Americas
Thales Alenia Space has launched a major recruitment drive after new contracts, with 221 roles added in a week. The article details hiring tracks, clearance requirements, and tips to pass its Workday screening filter.
200,000 xAI GPUs Depend on 11 New Pipeline Hires
xAI closed a $20B Series E round, fueling a hiring surge for data engineers to build pipelines that ingest X's firehose of real-time content for Grok model training on the 200,000+ GPU Colossus supercluster. The article details the funding, hiring focus, interview process, and compensation trends sh
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