Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

Gobii AI | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE (US) | gobii.ai

Gobii is the easiest way to deploy browser-use agents in the cloud or on-premises. We're building an open-core AI workforce platform—browser-native agents and automation tools. We have paying customers.

The entire team contributes to browser-use. We also have contributors to Apache NiFi, LiteLLM, and RA.Aid (open-source coding agent I created). Open source is core to how we build and how we think. We're backed by Open Core Ventures.

HQ is San Francisco, but much of the team is in the DC area. East Coast timezone preferred, DC area even better—but we're fully remote.

What we're building: The orchestration layer for browser-use and AI agents. Systems that navigate, reason, and execute on the real web.

Who we're looking for: You've built agentic systems that shipped to production. You have opinions about tool use, context management, and why most "agents" are just glorified prompt chains. You strongly prefer working in the open—a significant part of this role is contributing to OSS repos. We strongly prefer candidates with existing open source contributions.

Why now: We have strong traction and are expanding the team. You'd be early—with real influence over product, architecture, and how we work. High autonomy, high trust, small team of people who know what they're doing.

Comp: Cash + healthcare + modest 401k match + options. In line with SF-based VC-backed startups at pre-seed stage.

Stack: TypeScript, Python, browser automation, LLM orchestration.

Email: careers@gobii.ai (subject: "HN")

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

We’re building an AI-first bioinformatics platform to empower life science researchers with agentic AI and LLMs. Backed by pre-seed funding, a government grant, and real demand from biotech and seed companies, we’re looking for versatile 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, HPC infra, ML, 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.

IMPORTANT: We are now seeking for expertise in frontend / full-stack and PhDs with AI applied to life science bioinformatics (multiomics and/or chem)

Thanks everyone for all the support in our August and September posts! HN really helped finding amazing engineers.

Out of curiosity, do you offer visa sponsorship? I'm graduating from a US university this Fall with a Stats/CS degree, but I took 2 gap years just to manage my aging father's rental property business in my home country, Kenya.

I'm a software engineer but (thanks to my elderly father) I know the super fine details of rental property management.

For what it's worth, when I started out in 2023, the business was -1.3 million USD in construction debt. In 2025, 2 years into my role and we're at no debt, 34 fully occupied homes and 3 luxury villa sales. I can 100% provide documentation to prove this.

TeeMail/OpTee | Sales | USA Remote | Commission-based| teemail.io We're building automation tools for the golf industry. TeeMail handles inbound booking inquiries for golf courses automatically — parses emails, checks availability, sends responses. OpTee is a dashboard for tour operators managing tee time inventory across multiple courses. Live customers include premium resorts in Ireland and USA. Looking for someone to own US sales. The role:

Commission-based, uncapped Target: golf courses, resorts, tour operators, destination management companies Short sales cycles, clear ROI pitch (staff time savings, faster response = more bookings)

Good fit if you:

Have golf industry connections or hospitality/travel tech sales experience Can work independently and actually close deals Want equity upside in an early-stage company

Stack: Python, PostgreSQL, NLP for email parsing, integrations with booking systems Interested? Email info@teemail.io with a bit about your background and how you'd approach the US golf market.

Sent an email a couple weeks ago! Just a bump to be on the lookout for it!