Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Lopaka is a browser-based UI editor and C/C++ code generator for embedded displays (OLED, TFT, e-paper). Around 20,000 hardware developers use it to design interfaces for ESP32, STM32, AVR, Arduino and other platforms.

We're building DevPet, a small animated desktop companion for developers (think Tamagotchi meets build monitor). We're looking for an experienced embedded UI engineer to help design the UI architecture and build a polished animated interface that runs within tight memory and performance constraints.

You'll work on:

Embedded UI architecture Character animations and state transitions Sprite, bitmap and font pipelines Rendering optimization (dirty rectangles, partial redraws, partial refresh) Display and hardware trade-offs Integrating Git activity, build status and notifications into the UI

We're looking for someone with experience in:

C/C++ Embedded graphics LVGL, U8g2, TFT_eSPI, Adafruit GFX or similar OLED, TFT or e-paper displays ESP32, STM32 or similar MCUs

Side projects are absolutely welcome—we care more about what you've built than where you've worked.

Contract: ~10–15 hrs/week for approximately 6–8 weeks, with the possibility of ongoing collaboration.

Apply here: https://lopaka.app/careers

We build Industrial AI for the world's leading manufacturers for real production data with real yield impact. We are currently building our own tabular foundation models (pretraining, fine-tuning, serving at scale) and Transformer architectures for time-series forecasting on noisy, sparse, irregularly sampled sensor data.

Senior AI Engineer - ML (Palo Alto): own the training/serving/monitoring infrastructure for our foundation models and take them from prototype to production. Python, PyTorch, Docker/K8s, CI/CD; 3+ yrs production ML infra; BS+6 or MS/PhD+4. Distributed multi-GPU training a plus. https://jobs.lever.co/gausslabs/13bb4715-22f7-40a7-a941-4612...

AI Scientist - ML (Palo Alto or Seoul): design Transformer-based sequence models for manufacturing time series, own EDA through deployment, publish and patent. MS/PhD, 3+ yrs deep learning on time series, PyTorch, top-tier pubs. https://jobs.lever.co/gausslabs/dbfd0b6c-d2e9-460c-91a0-6dde...

We are building the web data layer for finance. Our coding agents build, monitor, and repair deterministic ETL pipelines that produce the most reliable web datasets for investors. We serve many of the top hedge funds and asset managers.

Open roles:

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

- Web Scraping Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/web-scraping-engineer

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a a lean and very talented team of engineers in a drama-free and distraction-light environment.

* All founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL code and still do it almost every single day.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation.

* Work at the forefront of applied AI in finance. Our agents are in use for mission critical production pipelines.

* Minimal distance between the code you ship and the customers who use it. You will get to work with some of the world's top investment firms.

If you're interested, please submit this form: https://forms.gle/JRYUvcbkcdMNejzG9 and I'll be in touch. Not a fan of doing this, but similar to others, my inbox is drowning in AI-generated job applications.

Hi HN,

I’m the founder of Proxybase [0]. We’re building an agentic SOCKS5 proxy network designed to bring transparency and ethical sourcing to the residential proxy market.

Quick note to anyone who applied last month: First off, thank you to everyone who reached out. We got hit with way more high-quality applications than expected, and between running day-to-day operations and working through the backlog, we took much longer to respond than we should have. If you applied last month and haven't heard back, we're genuinely sorry for the delay, we are actively reviewing those responses alongside this batch.

Why Proxybase? Historically, the residential proxy industry has been pretty shady, think hidden background scrapers bundled into TV firmware or mobile apps, combined with predatory payout systems that hold provider funds hostage for months.

We’re taking a different approach:

Fully Open-Source Clients: Our GUI [1] and CLI [2] are completely open-source so anyone can inspect and audit what we run. Explicit Consent: Providers knowingly opt in. No stealth bundling. Instant, Fair Payouts: $1 minimum payout threshold sent directly to provider wallets via US stablecoins—no holding funds to farm interest.

What We’re Looking For We’re looking for a Backend Systems Engineer (Rust) to help us build out our asynchronous SOCKS5 routing infrastructure, daemon node orchestration, and automated bandwidth allocation pipelines.

Stack: Rust (Tokio / Axum), SOCKS5 protocol, Linux systemd daemons, SQLite Location: Fully Remote (Async-friendly, flexible timezone) Compensation: Competitive salary + equity (USD or stablecoin options available)

If you're interested in building infrastructure for an industry that desperately needs better standards, send an email to jobs@proxybase.xyz with your GitHub/resume and a short note on what you’ve been working on lately.

I’m also around in the comments if you have any questions or feedback on what we're building.

[0] https://proxybase.xyz

[1] https://github.com/proxybasehq/proxybase-gui

[2] https://github.com/proxybasehq/proxybase-cli

We're building the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. First spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, based on Wendelstein 7-X (the largest stellarator ever built), €650M+ raised, teams in Munich, Zurich and Oxford.

Finding a good stellarator design means searching an enormous high-dimensional space, and every candidate design needs heavy plasma physics simulation. That's the compute problem this role owns: cloud + HPC clusters, K8s, Ray, Dask, and the platform work around it (CI/CD, IaC, observability). You'd sit directly next to the physicists and AI researchers burning through that compute, so you see exactly what your infrastructure unlocks. Python and Linux.

If you've wanted to point your platform engineering skills at something that actually matters, clean, abundant energy, this is about as direct a shot as it gets, and it's happening in Europe.

Interview process: recruiter call, technical screen, technical panel, CEO call.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/proxima-fusion/5aebfef0-0c2c-4c87-9...