Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) (self)

VLM Run (https://vlm.run) | 1x Founding Infrastructure Engineer | In-Person (Bay Area) | Full-time

We’re building the inference platform for visual intelligence. We’re a deeply technical team of AI / computer-vision engineers (20+ years combined, MIT/CMU/NC State PhDs) who’ve shipped production ML infra across autonomous driving and LLMs.

We launched the VLM Run Gateway (https://vlm.run/gateway) in September, a unified API that serves open-weight VLMs, embodied VLAs, ViTs, served across a fleet of GPUs and clouds. That's exactly the infrastructure problem this role will own. We're already scaling to serve 100s of thousands of requests per day, so if this sounds exciting to you, read on.

Email us at [email protected] with your GitHub profile, papers, ML projects you’ve recently shipped (100+ GH stars only) - especially with Ray, k8s, GPUs, serverless. No AI text please, keep it short, shorter emails are more likely to get a response. No remote work, must be in the Bay Area (specify in email subject).

FUTO | https://futo.tech/ | Austin, TX | REMOTE(Worldwide) or ONSITE | Full Time

FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through internal engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation. Our work consists of a combination of in-house engineering projects, targeted investments, generous grants, and multi-media public education efforts.

Immich is on a mission to provide a secure and private home for your most precious memories through our high-performance, self-hostable photo and video backup solution.

Roles currently available:

Mobile Developer - Immich: https://futo.tech/jobs/mobile-developer-immich

More listings here: https://careers.futo.tech/

We have now hired seven employees from these HN postings. We highly encourage people to mention that you came from here in your application.

Charge Robotics | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Onsite | SF Bay Area

Hi HN! We’re a YC-backed, Series-A startup building robots that build large-scale solar farms.

We just published a new video of our production system here! https://youtu.be/ix0oMgqTfko

It turns out that construction companies literally can't build solar fast enough, so what we're doing is a crucial part of switching the grid over to renewable generation.

You’ll be a key contributor, helping bring our next generation of mobile solar factory to life.

Come work with us if you love:

* Fast-paced prototype development with software and hardware components

* Making a positive climate impact through your work

* Hacking on massive construction equipment!

Lots of software and hardware jobs at the following link: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/charge-robotics

Please also feel free to reach out to me directly at [email protected]

Tangram Vision | Calibration Engineer | Remote (US preferred) | Full Time | $160k-$180k + equity

Tangram Vision has been awarded a Phase II SBIR from NASA to implement operator-free multi-modal calibration on the lunar surface, a system we're calling AutoCal. Read more about the grant here (https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/tangram-vision-awarded-na...).

We are looking for qualified candidates to research, implement, and improve AutoCal for both NASA's applications and those of any other robotics and automation system. The ideal Calibration Engineer candidate has real-world calibration experience through robotics, autonomous vehicles, or industry. A successful candidate has not only developed calibration systems and products, but has iterated on and improved that product once deployed. They have worked with multi-modal data from a variety of sensors and systems, and they have implemented odometry solutions from fundamentals.

The full description is at: https://www.tangramvision.com/careers/calibration-engineer

To apply, you can email [email protected]

Audio/Video Collaboration company, worldwide | GMT-2 <--> GMT+2 | Remote | Full time or part time or contract

We have a new opening! We're a dynamic truly-global team developing high-end audio and video collaboration tools.

A long-term opportunity exist to be the architect and team lead for a new version of a widely-used multimedia product based on existing proven patterns, but expanded to new platforms and capabilities. You must have a strong background in audio DSP, networked audio and cross-platform architecture. European timezone only.

We bring beautiful, complex systems to life. Our customers LOVE us. We have small teams: you work closely with the product owners and your input and expertise is meaningful and has an impact.

We're a 100% remote company in business for many years supporting the film, media and broadcast industry. Celebrated for our attention to technical detail and for solving hard problems, we're working on vital technology. There's something interesting going on every day and you'd have the opportunity to be part of driving how the industry moves forward in a post-pandemic world. You'll be part of a team of experts working 100% remotely.

You must have a strong background in audio DSP, networked audio and cross-platform architecture.

Please send resume to [email protected] that shows experience in the above-mentioned required areas and you are in timezone GMT-2 <--> GMT+2. We respond to all valid candidates. We strive for diversity and welcome all persons to apply. 4DWW possible. Family friendly / flexi-time.

Brain Corp | Multiple positions engineering/operations/product | San Diego CA | Onsite

With 50k robots deployed globally and counting, we're looking for innovators and technologists to help us make the real world work better. We currently have 10 openings spanning engineering, operations and product management.

All positions are posted here: https://www.braincorp.com/open-positions

Recent activity at Brain Corp: https://www.braincorp.com/resources

QUOBYTE | Santa Clara, CA and Berlin, Germany | Full-time / Remote | ONSITE | https://www.quobyte.com/

At Quobyte we are working on a highly scalable and fault-tolerant software storage system built around a parallel file system core. Our customers use us for large scale AI and HPC clusters in the enterprise and research, k8s and OpenStack infrastructures, and as a scalable backend for SaaS products. There are Quobyte clusters which span tens of thousands of machines and slurp 100s of GB/s!

Under the hood, we have built a full-stack fault-tolerant parallel file system, with everything from kernel development over our own replicated database system design to distributed algorithms (Paxos!) and performance. In short: lots of real-world challenging and fun problems!

We work as a highly efficient engineering team, ship frequently, do code reviews, and have lots of unit and integration testing. If you’re passionate about systems, we might be the right place for you!

Berlin, Germany (onsite, please apply only if you already are in the EU):

* Software Engineer (with a passion for Systems, 60-100k EUR)

* QA Engineer (creative testing, test automation, release engineering, 60-100k EUR)

* Infrastructure Engineer (engineering and corporate infrastructure, 50-90k)

* Customer Success Engineer (50-90k)

For detailed job descriptions please and application process, please visit https://www.quobyte.com/company/careers or write to work at quobyte.com.

Trustworthy Technology | Earth | Part Time | REMOTE | Anything

Hi, we are a small group trying to bring the "trustworthy" feature back to tech. Curating and building a FOSS+ toolset, storefront, and eventually online service—all to support freedom, privacy, and informed consent—on device and on the net.

We've written our thoughts and research down at: https://trustworthy.technology/ and we have a few geeks starting projects at: https://codeberg.org/aol

First off, you'll notice that you've probably not heard about this project before. Next, the message is a bit scattered, and the "programmer art," while arguably not horrible isn't winning any awards either, haha.

That's where you come in.

You are one of the few folks who really cares about this stuff, and also a graphic/product designer, or perhaps a digital marketer, communicator or "people whisperer." (Being in the EU would be helpful as well, to work from the digital sovereignty angle, though not required.) Geeks are welcome too.

Some of us are unemployed and currently donating our time. Maybe you are too, or retired/cashed-out and bored. Consider this another FOSS-like project. We hope the store/service will make money, but we're not there yet.

Interested? Let's chat at: https://trustytech.zulipchat.com/join/ivui3uglp2at3tyltau7jj...

BTW, if/when you join please say hi and let us know what kind of projects you're interested in.

Reactor | https://reactor.inc | San Francisco, CA, USA | Full Time

Reactor is the developer platform for World Models. We're small, senior, and in person in San Francisco: engineers and researchers from Apple, Netflix, Meta, Google, Adobe, Replicate, Snap Inc., and Microsoft.

Reactor is looking for highly-proactive talent across the board: - Inference Engineering - Product Design - Forward Deployed Engineers - DevOps - DevEx - Research - Business Development - GTM

If you're interested in working at the very tip of the spear of new media, apply today! Shoot me an email at willem at reactor dot inc

MeritFirst | Senior Software Engineer | Austin, TX (ONSITE) | Full-time

MeritFirst helps companies hire on demonstrated ability instead of pedigree. Candidates take realistic work-sample assessments, and employers get a signal they can trust more than a resume. We are backed by 8VC and Slow Ventures.

The hard part is building a signal good enough to influence real hiring decisions: fair to candidates, predictive for employers, explainable, and hard to game.

What you'll build:

- The product candidates use to prove what they can do

- The product employers use to find and hire them, and the scoring behind it

- The engineering bar the next hires will inherit, and helping us hire them

Stack: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres.

We want people who have built and run real production software, debug from evidence, and do not need a fully specified roadmap. Early engineers, technical founders, and senior ICs do well here.

We use AI to move faster and to understand code better, but we do not blindly ship what it writes. You are expected to know and own every line you commit.

Start with the assessment: https://www.meritfirst.us/candidate/tests/40bfae94-dbf6-43fd...

Veo Technologies | Senior Software Engineer (Rust, Python, C, Embedded Linux) | Copenhagen, Denmark | ONSITE | Full-time

Veo makes an AI sports camera. One camera on any pitch records the match from several sensors, stitches them into one continuous view, and our models track every player and the ball for the whole game. Coaches and players get stats like goals, possession and passes.

You will build Rust and Python user-space apps on our embedded Linux camera, and help shape the firmware architecture and Linux platform. You won't be writing drivers or doing low-level hardware work. Day to day that means Yocto system services, D-Bus and device trees, BLE/Wi-Fi with GATT and Protobuf protocols to our mobile apps, cloud integrations (REST, S3, OpenTelemetry), and diagnostics across a fleet of devices. You will work closely with our AI, video and cloud teams.

Stack: Rust, Python, C, Yocto/OpenEmbedded (meta-tegra), Zephyr, NixOS, GitHub Actions, AWS S3, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loggly.

Looking for: 5+ years of experience, fluency in at least two of Rust/Python/C, and experience with embedded Linux (Yocto) and BLE/Wi-Fi. MCU/RTOS experience is a plus.

Our Copenhagen office has an indoor ball court, a rooftop terrace and a gym.

Apply: https://nordictechjobs.com/jobs/wQWZw34HNY

Google | Senior Staff Software Engineer, CodeAI | Munich, Germany | On-site

The role is to help set technical direction for how we build and use coding agents at Google: agent infrastructure, making Googlers more productive with agents, and making the agents themselves better.

We’re especially looking for someone who has actually built agentic systems and has experience using them to make software development materially faster in a large engineering organization. This is not primarily a “follow the space” role — we want someone who has shipped these systems, learned what works and what doesn’t, and can use that experience to shape the next generation.

The space is moving very quickly and is competitive both inside Google and externally. We’re looking for someone highly creative who wants to challenge how things are done today, has strong technical judgment, and can turn ideas into working systems with the team.

A big part of the role is not just setting direction, but getting there: prototyping, building, iterating, and inspiring the team to rethink what is possible.

If that sounds interesting, please apply:

https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/resul...

Octane | Senior Software Engineer, Decisioning | REMOTE (US only) or NYC/Dallas | $130K to $170K base + bonus eligibility + employee stock options

Octane is unlocking the power of financial products for merchants and consumers. Our cutting-edge technology and innovative financial products empower businesses with more control and flexibility, enabling them to deliver seamless digital experiences, drive customer loyalty, and build long-term value.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build features and infrastructure for our decisioning (automated underwriting) team. Used by dealerships across the country, this product provides a streamlined workflow for dealerships to get fast, flexible financing to their customers. Working with a team of passionate, experienced engineers, you'll work throughout the backend of our stack with technologies such as Python, Django, PostgreSQL.

Apply: https://octane.co/o/who-we-are/careers/jobs-open/?gh_jid=799...

Innolitics | https://innolitics.com/join | Remote | Full-Time

Innolitics' is helps bring AI-enabled regulated medical software onto the US market. We focus on righting high-quality, clearly documented code and helping our clients with regulatory submissions. We care about safety and cybersecurity.

We're an organized, established team and have been in business 15 years, helping 100s of companies onto the market in radiology, cardiology, neurology, and other fields.

Principal Medical Device Software Engineer - $200,000–$250,000/year + 10-12% bonus. Required 15+ years experience as a software engineer and 8+ years of experience in the medical device space.

Staff Medical Device Software Engineer - $170,000–$200,000/year + 10-12% bonus. Requires 10+ years experience as a software engineer and experience going through at least one 510(k) or De Novo.

Komodo Health | Principal Product Manager, AI Products | Full-Time | $213k-$288k + equity... | SF/NYC On-site / Remote US

Healthcare in the U.S. is a mess, and most of the data that could help is locked in places nobody can use. Komodo has mapped the patient journey across the country: diagnoses, treatments, providers, payers. Our customers are pharma companies, payers and health systems that want to act on that picture.

We're building the platform that puts it in their hands. There's an AI analyst that works across the whole map. There are apps that turn a population described in plain English into a full report in seconds, and tools that let analysts open, check and rerun the code behind every answer. Underneath all of it is a single query engine that every app and agent shares, so a new product is weeks of work instead of quarters.

Building has gotten cheap. Deciding what to build is the hard part now, and that's the job. We want product managers who:

  • Have shipped data, analytics or developer products that people use every day

  • Prototype things themselves with AI coding tools, and would rather show a working version than write a spec

  • Can sit with a customer, find the problem underneath the request, and say no to the rest

  • Write clearly and briefly
  Healthcare experience helps, but it isn't required. Curiosity about how the system actually works is.

Small team, real customers, and more leverage per person than I've seen anywhere.

If that sounds like you, email our head of product at [email protected] Or me at [email protected]

Please include the keyword from my HN profile in the subject of the email!

Curai | Remote (US) | Full-time | https://curaihealth.com

We're building AI agents to expand access to affordable, and high quality healthcare. We run a vertically integrated primary and urgent care clinic and are actively building an agentic platform focused improving longitudinal care outcomes.

We're hiring engineers to work across patient and clinician experiences, production AI systems, and the platforms that help people discover and access care.

* Sr Software Engineer, Full-Stack: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/46e0dd2f-c1dd-4ca2-9095-5b45f477...

* Sr Software Engineer, Agentic AI: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/cd31b67b-d83c-466a-ac55-cfa4c2ec...

* Sr Software Engineer, Marketing Platform: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/b157298e-4dc7-4594-a9c4-29f0dec4...

Tech stack: Agents SDK, Braintrust, Python, React, React Native/Expo, AWS, Postgres, DynamoDB, Docker, Terraform.

Discord | Senior Software Engineer, Application Security | REMOTE (US West Coast) or San Francisco, CA | $196K-$245K base + equity

Discord is where communities and friend groups spend time together, on desktop, mobile, and now more and more inside games and third-party apps built on our platform. That surface area, plus a huge, engaged, occasionally adversarial user base, makes application security a genuinely hard and interesting problem here.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Application Security team. This is hands-on product engineering: building security features that protect user accounts, strengthening authentication and session security, and improving security-critical services. You will work directly with product teams to ship user-facing account security tools and address emerging threats.

Stack: Python primarily, some TypeScript/React, some Rust, occasional JavaScript. Runs on GCP.

Looking for: hands-on AppSec experience (not just compliance-flavored security), comfort reading and writing code across languages, experience shipping production software, and sound judgment on prioritizing real risk over checklist security. Experience with authentication, passkeys, MFA, or session management is especially relevant.

Location: Remote from the US West Coast. If you are in the Bay Area, our SF office is an option. Relocation to the Bay Area is not required.

Interview process: recruiter call, coding round, HM interview, virtual onsite, decision.

Apply: https://discord.com/jobs/8656854002

It's my duty again to point out the popular request of including a 4DWW tag in the description to communicate community interest in the Four Day Work Week

Four characters more in the description is all we ask <bowing>

Cardog | Toronto, Ontario | ONSITE, HYBRID, REMOTE (role-dependent) | Full-time | https://cardog.app/careers

Cardog turns raw vehicle data into facts you can check: VIN decode, market price, recalls, and what the car's own modules report. Insurers, dealers, manufacturers and the public bodies that register vehicles all use it. We're a small team and every engineer owns a whole area.

Data - Data Platform Engineer (Remote). Own the datasets: government files, manufacturer filings, dealer listings, signals from the vehicle. Decide which source wins when two disagree, and be able to prove it. SQL first, entity resolution, tens of millions of rows. Postgres, TypeScript, Workers, R2. - VIN Decode Engineer (Remote). Own decode accuracy. Read manufacturer filings line by line, write the patterns, and test them against millions of real VINs. For people who are obsessive about correctness. TypeScript, Postgres.

Design - Design Engineer (Remote). Own the component library and the screens built on it. Dense data, and making uncertain or missing values look uncertain. You design in the browser and you merge it yourself. React, Next.js, Tailwind. - Founding Engineer, Dealer Platform (Toronto / Remote). First engineer on software for dealer groups. Time in stores, then ship it the same week. Strong Postgres, multi-tenant.

Business - Account Executive (Toronto / Remote). Enterprise and public-sector sales cycles measured in quarters. Run technical first calls alone and pull your own numbers in SQL. - Policy & Standards Lead (Ontario). Represent us in the consultations and standards bodies writing the rules for vehicle data. Closer to counsel than comms.

Field - Hardware Engineer, Vehicle Interface (Toronto). Own the diagnostic-port device: board, firmware, enclosure, from bench to a unit on a dealer lot. C or Rust, CAN at the frame level, UDS/ISO-TP against real cars. - Forward Deployed Engineer (Ontario). Take named accounts from the first meeting to a running system. TypeScript, SQL, and some time under dashboards.

Apply on the page (each role takes applications in place) or write to [email protected].

Sumble | Multiple Roles | Remote (US)| Full-time Sumble is the newco from the founders of Kaggle. We are hiring full stack engineers, ai/ml engineers, growth/marketing, sales and customer success. Can view our roles and apply here: https://sumble-inc.workable.com/

- We are building a knowledge graph from web data with a first focus on data for go-to-market teams. - We use web data to identify things like org structure, tech stack, and key projects (e.g., GenAI initiatives, cloud migrations). - Our product already has strong product-market fit, early revenue, and happy customers — and now we’re ready to accelerate. - Our long-term vision is to become the world's best data vendor. Try the product at sumble.com. - We are a team of 35 with experience at companies such as Google, Meta, Stack Overflow, Rippling, Snowflake, Confluent and Kaggle. - We raised $38.5MM from Coatue, Canaan, Square Peg Capital https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/sumble-emerges-from-stealt...

Yardstik | Multiple Open Roles | Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

- DevSecOps Engineer | $120,000 - $165,000 | apply at https://app.trinethire.com/companies/135023-yardstik/jobs/12...

- Senior Software Engineer | $120,000 - $200,000 | apply at https://app.trinethire.com/companies/135023-yardstik/jobs/12...

We just completed our Series B and are growing https://yardstik.com/news-articles/yardstik-raises-30m-in-se...

Yardstik is a start-up software company with a mission of building trust and safety into the Internet Economy. The world of background screening, certification, and training has lacked innovation and we’re here to change that for our customers. Our enterprise-class technology allows us to provide a right-fit solution for our customers realistic for any platform, in any industry. Join us in our efforts to protect organizations and their people.

We are honored to have recently been named a MSPBJ Best Place to Work for the sixth year in a row and named to Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces. Come be part of our amazing culture and join an environment where you can see and feel the impact of your work every day.

PrairieLearn (Remote US) — Full-Stack Software Engineer — TypeScript / Postgres / React / AI

PrairieLearn (https://www.prairielearn.com) is an open-source assessment platform used by universities across the US (Berkeley, Princeton, Michigan, Illinois, and others). We power mastery-based learning and large-scale exams.

We’re a small, profitable, early-stage company (bootstrapped, no VC) that is growing quickly. Our users love us and we have very high retention and rapid spread through word of mouth. As an early-stage hire, you’ll work across the stack and enjoy meaningful ownership from day one.

Tech we use: Node.js / TypeScript backend, Postgres, AWS, React. We’re also developing AI tooling, including LLM agents to help instructors create content, and vision-language models to help grade student work. PrairieLearn is open core: https://github.com/PrairieLearn/PrairieLearn

Details:

- Location: Remote (US only)

- Salary: $100k-$180k depending on experience

- Benefits: Stock options (0.5% - 1.5%), unlimited PTO, flexible hours

- Role: Full-time. (We’re not able to sponsor visas at this time.)

Apply at https://www.prairielearn.com/jobs-ashby?utm_source=YeEJ5MAKk...

Factory | Security Engineer | https://factory.com/ | Onsite | San Francisco, CA | Full-time

Come work with me! I'm building out Factory's Security team. Whether you're into pentesting, application and product security, cloud security, corporate security, or compliance, I could use your skills. We recently raised $200M at a $5B valuation and this is an excellent time to join!

Details are at https://factory.com/careers/software-engineer-security

Tandem Health | Engineers, Designers, PMs | On-site in Stockholm, Sweden | Full time

At Tandem Health we're building the AI-native operating system for clinics, so clinicians can focus on care rather than administration. We're building, launching and iterating quickly, and already support more than 10,000 care organisations across 14 European markets, including most of the NHS. We recently raised a $100M Series B to go further, faster.

It started with our AI medical scribe, which listens in to the patient-clinician encounter to generate medical records and saves clinicians 5-10 minutes per patient. Today our AI medical assistant supports clinicians before, during and after each visit, with medical coding and clinical decision support, three products certified as medical devices under EU MDR.

We're expanding our Stockholm team with exceptionally driven builders in a wide range of roles.

More info and application at https://tandemhealth.ai/about/careers

Feel free to reach out to me at john.moberg[at]tandemhealth.ai if you have any questions, but please don't send applications my way

City Detect | Full Stack Product Engineer (Design & Geospatial) | Tuscaloosa, AL | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | $110k–$159k + equity

City Detect uses AI and computer vision to map the physical world for cities. Sensors capture street-level conditions so local governments can find and respond to issues like blight and track how neighborhoods change over time. Founded in 2021, Series A, working with municipalities across Texas, California, Florida, and beyond.

We're looking for a frontend-leaning full stack engineer with a strong eye for design to own the map-heavy parts of our product. That means interactive maps, spatial data explorers and dashboards that city staff use to make decisions.

Stack: React/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI on AWS Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL + PostGIS. Experience with Mapbox, deck.gl, Leaflet, D3, vector tiles/H3, or nation-scale OSM data is a big plus.

Mid to senior level. Small team, close work with the founders, real ownership.

Process: phone screen, portfolio/design review, 1–2 technical conversations, references, then a chat with our CEO. No LeetCode.

Perks: unlimited PTO, health/dental/vision, $100/mo wellness stipend, team retreats twice a year.

Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/citydetect/am9icG9zdDr5AWjF1AZ1UgSdc0I0... Questions: [email protected]