Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

Stellar Science | Hybrid (USA) Albuquerque NM, Washington DC (Tysons VA), Dayton OH | Full time, interns/co-ops | U.S. citizenship required | https://www.stellarscience.com (sorry, summer 2025 internships have been filled)

Company: We're a small scientific software development company that develops custom scientific and engineering analysis applications in domains including: space situational awareness (monitoring the locations, health and status of on-orbit satellites), image simulation, high power microwave systems, modeling and simulation, laser systems modeling, AI/ML including physics-informed neural networks (PINN), human body thermoregulation, computer vision and image processing, high performance computing (HPC), computer aided design (CAD), and more. All exciting applications and no CRUD. We emphasize high quality code and lightweight processes that free software engineers to be productive.

Experience: Other than interns, we currently require a Bachelors degree in physics, engineering, math, computer science, or a related field, plus preferably 3+ years of work experience or a Masters or PhD in lieu of work experience. (Roughly 30% of our staff have PhDs.)

Technologies: Mostly C++23, Qt 6.5-6.8, CMake, git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins. Windows and Linux, msvc/gcc/clang/clangcl. AI/ML and other projects use Python, some use Java or Javascript/Typescript/React.

Apply online at https://www.stellarscience.com/careers/.

SerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Junior to Senior Fullstack Engineer positions | Customer Success Engineer | Talent Acquisition Specialist | Based in Austin, TX but remote-first structure | Full-time | ONSITE or FULLY REMOTE | $150K - 180K a year 1099 for US or local avg + 20% for outside the US

SerpApi is the leading API to scrape and parse search engine results. We deeply support Google, Google Maps, Google Images, Bing, Baidu, and a lot more.

Our current stack is Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, and React.JS. We are looking for more Junior and Senior FullStack Engineers. We have an awesome work environment: We are a remote first company (before Covid!).

We do continuous integration, continuous deployments, code reviews, code pairings, profit sharing, and most of communication is async via GitHub.

We very strongly value transparency, do open books, have a public roadmap, and contribute to the EFF.

Apply at: https://serpapi.com/careers

Shortwave | Onsite in SF | Full-time | shortwave.com

We’re building Cursor for business communications (starting with email)

We’re currently growing revenue very quickly and are looking to more than double our team in the next 3 months. Hiring AI agent engineers, product engineers, frontend engineers, designers, and customer service & growth content roles. Aggressive comp.

I previously founded Firebase & sold it to Google. Shortwave is going to be much bigger.

Full details: https://shortwave.notion.site/Open-Positions-at-Shortwave-1a...

Clio | Multiple Engineering Managers; Machine Learning Engineers; Devops/Systems Engineers | Remote Canada if >80km outside of Toronto, Calgary, or Burnaby. Hybrid 2 days/week if Clio is the market leader in legaltech products and we recently raised a Series F round of 1.4B CAD to a valuation of 4B CAD, marking the largest Canadian tech funding in history.

Strong finances: 300M+ ARR with 90% retention and 30% growth YoY / no debts / long runway / fortunate to have never done any layoffs.

Software Development Managers: 50-60% people management, 20-30% technical leadership, 10-20% hands-on coding. Average 1-2 PRs a week. Open to any stack but we are RoR on AWS. 4-6 direct reports. Many teams available including AI Product (doesn't require prior history in AI), Platform (data ubiquity across product suite), Expense Management (fintech arm), Payments Infrastructure (backend billing systems), and a couple more. No on-call. 205K-215K CAD base salary + equity options, no bonus structure.

MLEs: intermediate level, multiple roles available. Heavy on statistical inferencing and experiments to determine best ML models for each use case. Supporting new greenfield AI product along 4 other teams (MLEs, MLOps, full stack devs). 140K-145K CAD base salary.

Systems Engineers: intermediate level, multiple roles available. Mix of devops, SRE, cloud infra, but also writing a bit of production-level code. Occasional on-call with additional pay. 130K-137K CAD base salary.

Apply directly: https://www.clio.com/about/careers/search/?teams=engineering...

Definitely not fake, we are most certainly hiring!

I'm a somewhat newer hire at SerpApi and I found the role through one of the monthly "Who is hiring?" threads late last year.

Please feel free to reach out to me at david at serpapi.com with more detail on what part of the process you had issues with.