Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by kstrauser » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:17 PM UTC

kadabra9 wrote: post #126

konstantinmuell wrote: post #124

Astoria AI | Founding AI Engineer — Agentic Systems | Remote (async) | Full-time | Equity-only pre-seed, $190k-$280k + equity post-seed Astoria AI is building an agentic runtime for human potential — a suite of specialized AI agents serving candidates and companies across the entire hiring and talent lifecycle: career strategy, networking intelligence, verified matching, compliance-native hiring, onboarding, and rete…

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> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

But also: while I didn't post this, that's not uncommon for a founding engineer. They're looking for someone to help start the company from scratch, typically with a healthy dose of equity. It's a calculated risk for the engineer, possibly worth anywhere from zero to a gazillion dollars depending on outcome.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by ashbyhq » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

Ashby | YC 19 | REMOTE | Hiring Senior/Staff Product Engineers (Americas) | $178k–$299k

Ashby is the all-in-one recruiting platform powering hiring at the world's most innovative companies. If you cmd+f "Ashby" you'll see that we're powering many of the job postings in this thread!

As we scale our platform, we are also looking to scale our Product Engineering team.

Why Join?

High Seniority & Density: 80%+ of our engineering team is Senior–Staff+ level. You’ll be working alongside peers who excel at navigating ambiguity and setting high standards.

True End-to-End Ownership: We give an unusual amount of autonomy. You’ll own features from initial spec writing and customer interviews all the way to production. Many of our most loved features were built entirely by a single engineer!

Product Sense > Pure Speed: Building fast is getting easier, but building the right thing still isn't. Customer empathy, sound judgment, and product taste matter far more to us than where you worked in the past.

100% Remote Async Culture: Low meeting overhead, high trust, and an even distribution of engineers across North America and Europe.

Here's how we're thinking about AI at Ashby: https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/ai-ashby-engineerin...

More about our engineering culture: https://nextplayso.substack.com/p/should-you-join-ashby

Full transparency on engineering levels + comp: https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/leveling-and-compen...

Stack: TypeScript (frontend & backend), React, GraphQL API, Node.js, Postgres, Redis.

Full list of open roles: https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?utm_source=HNwhoshiring

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by kadabra9 » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #131

kadabra9 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. But also: while I didn't post this, that's not uncommon for a founding engineer. They're looking for someone to help start the company from scratch, typically with a healthy dose of equity. It's a calculated risk for the engineer, possibly worth anywhere from zero to a gazillion dollars depending on outcome.

I normally wouldn't comment, but expecting someone with that skillset and those kind of opportunities available to them to work for free for 4-6 months with the promise of actual pay "when our seed round closes" was so egregious I couldn't help myself, sorry.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by pryelluw » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

ashbyhq wrote: post #132

Ashby | YC 19 | REMOTE | Hiring Senior/Staff Product Engineers (Americas) | $178k–$299k Ashby is the all-in-one recruiting platform powering hiring at the world's most innovative companies. If you cmd+f "Ashby" you'll see that we're powering many of the job postings in this thread! As we scale our platform, we are also looking to scale our Product Engineering team. Why Join? High Seniority & Density: 80%+ of our engi…

https://www.ashbyhq.com/blog/engineering/leveling-and-compen

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by izzdwizz » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

farnasirim wrote: post #118

Inferra | Bare-Metal GPU Infra + Applied AI | San Francisco / REMOTE | Full-time / internship We're looking for cracked, optimistic engineers/students with good systems taste and high tolerance of ambiguity. We're a team of ~10 in SF, building a GPU neocloud. High agency, lots of freedom, very little boundaries. Think GPU datacenter bring-up, storage, networking, and designing IaC. Also think optimizing AI workloads,…

Super interesting! Just sent an application

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

ashbyhq wrote: post #132

Ashby | YC 19 | REMOTE | Hiring Senior/Staff Product Engineers (Americas) | $178k–$299k Ashby is the all-in-one recruiting platform powering hiring at the world's most innovative companies. If you cmd+f "Ashby" you'll see that we're powering many of the job postings in this thread! As we scale our platform, we are also looking to scale our Product Engineering team. Why Join? High Seniority & Density: 80%+ of our engi…

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by mynameisjody » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

Child Mind Institute | https://childmind.org/ | NYC | Full-Time

We're hiring a Senior Product Manager to oversee a couple of our products.

* Curious, a remote research and clinical data platform

* Mirror Journal, an AI-powered journaling app designed with teens to support emotional reflection and mood tracking

Apply here: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/...

Feel free to email me jody[dot]brookover[at]childmind.org if you have questions.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by timfanselow-bc » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

Brain Corp | Multiple positions engineering/operations/product | San Diego CA | Onsite With 50k robots deployed globally and counting, we're looking for innovators and technologists to help us make the real world work better.

We currently have 13 openings spanning software and QA engineering, technical support, operations and product management.

All positions are posted here: https://www.braincorp.com/open-positions

Recent activity at Brain Corp: https://www.braincorp.com/resources

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by chenggar » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:51 PM UTC

We're a systematic energy trading company trading virtuals and PTPs across the US. We are hiring a mid-level quantitative researcher; the ideal candidate is process oriented and has a team-first approach. You would work closely together with the founders to build out our expansion in the US with focus on PJM. Our team is ex-D.E. Shaw, Optiver, and Stanford. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and growing. Compensation is all-cash and paid from company profits, not venture funding.

What we're looking for:

- 3+ years of experience trading virtuals/PTPs/FTRs on US ISOs (experience with PJM strongly preferred)

- Fluent Python skills (e.g. numpy, matplotlib, pandas, or similar)

- Fluency with statistics (e.g., sampling, biases, t-stats)

- Crisp written communication — we're deep-work focused and async-heavy

Nice to have: experience with LLM-assisted development, experience building quantitative trading algorithms

Hybrid, based in San Francisco or Seattle. Fully remote US-based exceptions can be made if the candidate is a particularly strong/good fit. Candidates are expected to work in person 3 days a week.

Apply: email hiring@amplifyrenewables.com with resume + an (optional) short note on a research project you’ve owned end-to-end; we’re interested in how you generated the idea, tested it, communicated to others, and implemented it. Please mention HN.

Search terms: quantitative trading, energy, power markets, ISO, forecasting, electricity, PJM

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

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Post by jaredsilver » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

Brilliant is building the world's first graphical AI tutor: a collection of interactive learning experiences that both the learner and their AI tutor can see and manipulate. In a world of cognitive offloading, Brilliant's AI gets people to actually think and solve hard problems.

We're hiring an interactive-focused engineer to craft the building blocks that power it. Each interactive exposes an API used by learning designers, our authoring agents, and the tutor itself. And every configuration those APIs can produce has to be a correct, solvable, meaningful puzzle. It's a tricky technical problem with a big payoff for our learners.

Engineers at Brilliant think about both "building the right thing" AND "building the thing right" while pursuing high standards of excellence for ourselves, our product, and our codebase.

If you're energized by the prospect of doing the best work of your career and changing how the world learns, you can learn more and apply here: https://brilliant.org/careers.