Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

Squint | Onsite, San Francisco + remote for some roles | Squint is the leading manufacturing intelligence platform. We're leveraging the latest in AI, spatial, and hardware capabilities to accelerate human potential and spark the next industrial revolution.

What makes Squint special? - Our customers include some of the most iconic manufacturing brands across Food and Beverage, Automotive, and Consumer Package Goods. Work here literally transforms how the world around you is made.

- We're not replacing people with AI, we're up-leveling them; capturing insights, turbocharging workflows on the factory floor, and making every operator an expert.

- We're bringing consumer-grade quality to enterprise software, combining cutting-edge tech with deep customer empathy to build a product that's powerful, magical, and deeply loved by our users.

High Priority Open Roles:

- Applied AI Engineer (Mid-level to Staff+)

- Software Engineer, Backend

- Product Manager

- Senior Accounting Manager

- Director of Enterprise Sales, Energy Sector

- Strategic Enterprise Account Executive

- Senior Sales Engineer

View full list of roles and apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/squint.ai?utm_source=Hackernews

I worked on a messy integration where data moved across multiple systems and failures were silently cascading—broken retries, duplicated records, and zero visibility into where things went wrong. I mapped the full flow end-to-end, added idempotency and clear boundaries between systems, and replaced brittle chained logic with a more explicit, observable integration. That cut down failures immediately and made the setup easy to extend when new tools were added. This kind of work—owning real systems and untangling messy automations—is exactly what I enjoy.

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Virio.ai | SF | Full Time | 250k-500k TC

We're AI marketer that writes LinkedIn content for every employee at your company. Grew over $1 million ARR in 30 days.

Hiring:

Product Engineer - Strong product sense, ships fast, designer

Senior SWE - infra, ETL pipelines

Founding Engineer - Ships fast, dealing with agents

Email: andrew[at]virio[dot]ai - a role, a short summary of why you are a good fit.

Zefr | Los Angeles, CA (Marina del Rey) | Staff or Principal Site Reliability Engineer | Full-time | On-site 2-3x per week | Staff: $190,000 - $210,000, Principal $210,000 - $235,000

Company

Zefr is the leading global technology company enabling responsible marketing in walled garden social environments. Zefr’s solutions empower brands to manage their content adjacency on scaled platforms such as YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and Snap. Through its patented AI technology, Zefr offers brands and agencies more accurate and transparent solutions for social walled gardens.

Role

Staff or Principal Site Reliability Engineer

You

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Zefr, you’ll apply your expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Observability, and core SRE concepts, to deliver high-quality, reliable, and scalable solutions.

We’re looking for someone to combine their technical expertise with strong leadership and a passion for continuous improvement and innovation. Zefr wants a candidate that champions reliability as a product feature, and can translate complex technical concepts into strategy. This is a role where you'll shape how we build and operate systems at scale.

Tech Stack

Clouds - GCP, AWS

Kubernetes - GKE, EKS

GitOps - ArgoCD, Github Actions

Languages - Python/React/Node.js

Observability - Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, Chronosphere

Staff: https://zefr.com/about-us/careers?ashby_jid=bcfa5b44-6623-4e...>

Principal: https://zefr.com/about-us/careers?ashby_jid=54ecc7d8-6c8b-46...>