Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)

Data Engineer | US Resident | REMOTE | Full-Time | 130-160k (open)

    tl;dr: Python + GCP + BigQuery + k8s.

    * Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from diverse sources into our data warehouse.
    * Enhance and maintain our cloud-based data storage and processing systems for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
    * Implement rigorous data quality checks, monitoring, and security measures across all data assets.
    * 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong grasp of data warehousing, ETL/ELT principles, and data modeling.
    * Experience with BigQuery (, Redshift, Snowflake, etc)
    * Experience with infrastructure tools (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.

* I will read all resumes! We need more resumes!

Job link: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/epickids/jobs/6669024003

Could you clarify the location requirements for these positions? The instructions for this thread mention the following:

> Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option

Ghost jobs, nonsense in the job description etc

Base Power | Onsite | Austin | Full-time | https://www.basepowercompany.com/careers At Base we're rebuilding the nation's power grid. We build and manufacture power systems, deploy them across the grid, and build the algs, ingestion and commanding platforms that operate the fleet in response to real-time grid conditions. Our team is made up of engineers from top infrastructure and energy companies (Apple, Anduril, Starlink, etc) and we have several years of runway from top firms (a16z, Valor, Thrive, Addition). We are looking for: - platform engineers - firmware & controls engineers - embedded software engineers

Sampling of exciting upcoming problems include: - Home load prediction algorithms - Resilient factory execution software platform - Automated hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test system

Ploid AI | Barcelona, Spain | HYBRID (preferably on-site) | Founding Engineers | Full-time + Equity

We’re building an AI-first bioinformatics platform to empower plant breeders and life science researchers with agentic AI and LLMs. Backed by pre-seed funding and real demand from biotech and seed companies, we’re looking for versatile founding engineers to help us shape the future of AI in genomics.

What you’ll do:

• Architect and build AI workflows, agentic interfaces, and data pipelines

• Work across the stack: Go, Python, TypeScript

• Contribute to system design, infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Terraform), and devops

• Collaborate closely with scientists and iterate from prototype to product

• Help define our technical culture and roadmap as a core founding member

Nice-to-haves (not all required): LLM integration, RAG systems, gRPC, scientific computing, cloud/on-prem hybrid systems

About us: We’re an early team of engineers and scientists with strong academic and industry backgrounds (ex-BCG, PhD in Plant Biotech, M.Sc. AI). We’re committed to building something impactful, technical, and genuinely useful for life science.

Apply: hello@ploid.ai

More about us: https://ploid.ai

We also consider internship requests from strong student candidates.

Update to our August post: Thank you for all the interest from HN! We have filled 2 out of the 3 open positions. We are now seeking for expertise in full-stack development.