Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)

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CoVar is a small R&D company specializing in machine learning and software development for defense, healthcare, and manufacturing applications.

We're looking for a jack-of-all-trades who can: prototype computer vision algorithms, build Python web services, wrangle large sets of data from disparate classes of sensors, ... any or all, with the only hard requirement being eagerness to learn.

Contact careers@covar.com for more information!

Kara is a software platform to empower investors and technology companies to achieve their climate and social goals. The problem that we are solving is that investors (LPs and GPs), governments, and a whole new generation of consumers are increasingly asking if their capital is building the world that they want to see: Are our investments helping solve our climate crisis? What's the diversity of the leadership of our portfolio companies? Are there any practices within the companies that are not responsible?

We are a quickly growing startup, with numerous clients and pilots using our MVP platform. This is a great opportunity to be our founding engineer at Kara. We are looking for a senior/principal engineer that is ready to jump into the startup life and take the next step in their career as a founding engineer. We currently have an MVP built in no-code (Bubble) that works great at current scale, but you will build and own our next gen platform (to be built on a traditional tech stack from scratch). You will own the architecture, grow the engineering organization, develop and implement process, communicate technical strategy to multiple stakeholders, and work directly with the CEO and Head of Product to build the platform that aims to achieve their social and climate goals!

Location: Since the team is small and we are looking for a founding engineer, NYC is preferred, but also open to remote. In this case, travel to NYC would be beneficial to the team and we’d love to see and create with you in person!

For more information about us and the position, check out the description here: https://apply.workable.com/kara-inc/j/725A61AC38/

If you’d like more information before applying, feel free to reach out to me here: nick@modeselekt.com. My name is Nick and I’m Kara’s engineering advisor responsible for the MVP platform and helping to hire an amazing founding engineer!

> our healthcare outcomes are poorer than other countries, people still can’t afford their healthcare, and our healthcare providers are burnt out.

> How can this be, and how can we change it?

This is a great problem to tackle but has many different angles at play. I just wanted to share my sentiments.

I am a lay person, but have you considered lobbying Congress to fund more residency positions? These are paid by the government, and limits the number of residents that may exist in any given year. It seems hospitals do not want to fund salaries of residents themselves (why???). This trickles back to medical school acceptance rates: schools want to maintain high "placement rates" (no. of graduates who place at a residency). Growing numbers of potential young folks wanting to be doctors cannot make it because of an artificial limit on residencies, and schools thus examine increasingly arbitrary metrics of their applicants. Doubling or tripling the number of residencies would seem very useful.

Second, cost of medical schools is so high that students and residents increasingly pursue specialties. The majority of the population first interact with a generalist, of which there are fewer.

Third, due to the above shortages, our system has created very weird solutions such as Physician Assistants, and giving them and NPs more responsibilities like an MD or DO would have, but they have less rigorous training.

Fourth, we have a merging of residency paths between DO schools and MD schools, increasing the pressure of individuals on residency slots, too. New schools cannot be created nor grown without allowing for a greater number of residency slots to be funded.

We need to open the "flood gates" holding back all the would-be doctors in our country, and allow them to enter schools. I'd be curious to see a ratio between residency slots and overall US population as a graph over time. Are they diverging? etc.

Incentives is also a great angle to work on.

Thanks for reading.

Pine Street Labs is an enterprise wallet software provider that is laser focused on growing and democratizing usage of public blockchains.

We are hiring software and security engineers to join our small team developing solutions that have an outsized impact on the custody domain in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

We are looking for engineers with the following:

- Experience with Rust in systems/deep-tech engineering.

- Experience with applied cryptography in the custody or cryptocurrency space.

- Passion for security and a domain expertise in a segment of the software stack (e.g. deep knowledge of Linux, networking, elliptic curves)

- Drive to work with cutting-edge cryptocurrency projects.

- Excellent communication skills.

Please send your resume/github to careers [at] pinestreetlabs.com if you are interested.

More info found here: https://pinestreetlabs.com/careers