Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

Statecraft | Forward Deployed Engineer (All Levels) | REMOTE (US) | $160-220k + equity

At Statecraft, we are building an AI workforce to help automate the US government. Currently our government is operated almost entirely by consultants who outnumber public servants 3:1 and institutionalize inefficiency so they can bill more hours. This only leads to agencies struggling to meet their missions, overworked and underpaid public servants, and overburdened taxpayers.

Most of what these consultants do is easily automatable: data entry, basic spreadsheet work, filling out paperwork, etc.; we do this with AI and save taxpayers ~80% on average while completing the work ~10x faster with 2-3x less errors.

We're a small, lean, mission-driven team and hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to build use cases and integrate deeply with agency customers. You'll be working with critical systems, massive surface area and national impact.

* This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain/maintain a security clearance.

More details on role and perks here: https://careers.statecraft.ai/jobs/forward-deployed-engineer

Mondrio | Founding Product Engineer | San Francisco | ONSITE | $200k – $250k plus equity

Mondrio (https://mondrio.io) builds agentic pricing management: AI agents plus pricing experts that keep B2B pricing current rather than a one-off, one-time exercise. The founding team ran 150+ pricing engagements before starting the company and are translating that expertise to shape the next frontier of pricing in the agentic era.

The role comes with significant scope and high autonomy. You will own the full product lifecycle: customer discovery -> rapid prototyping -> agent-ready specs -> shipping via agentic orchestration -> o11y and evals -> growth & expansion.

Here are some domains you will ship: - Multi-agent simulation to emulate the behavior of a buying committee - A2A pricing interactions governed by OPA/Rego policies defined from natural language - Generative UX driven by a MCP server with full system capabilities access - Autonomous quote generation and real-time deal intelligence during sales calls

We don't have PMs or product designers so you serve as the product bridge between the founders, pricing experts, and engineering. If you're a mature engineer, looking to work with a very senior/staff team across the stack: customers, models, server, clients (web, TUI, chatbots), evals, then this is the role for you. In short, the role is ideal for someone who has significant product engineering expertise and has sharpened their SDLC competency to be AI-native.

Apply at https://ats.rippling.com/mondrio/jobs/9fefe011-331a-43a2-83a....

FitMate | Frontend Engineer (Junior) | REMOTE (US) | $80-120k + bonus

We are building a scalable 1-1 coaching platform to help people achieve their fitness goals. We already have a working nutrition product with a rapidly growing user base and are hoping to branch out into other areas of fitness this quarter.

Our product aims to hook people up with a qualified human coach at an affordable price. We have a client facing mobile app and web app that allows our users to track their nutrition and training, and a coach facing app that allows our coaches to get insights into their clients and communicate with them over SMS or video call.

We're a small, lean, mission-driven team and the role is a great opportunity for someone starting out in their career who wants to learn quickly in a fast paced environment.

We use React Native and Expo for our mobile app and Astro and Svelte for our web apps.

* Applicants must be based in the US, we are unable to sponsor visas.

Apply here: https://careers.fitmatecoach.com/roles/junior-frontend-devel...

SerpApi | https://serpapi.com | Junior to Senior Fullstack Engineer multiple positions | Customer Success Engineer | Hiring Coordinator | Python/Ruby/PHP/Js/Rust/Cotlin/C#/Crystal/Nim/Elixir Developer Advocate positions | 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 provide 100+ APIs to Google, Google Maps, Google Images, Bing, Baidu, and 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 value super strongly transparency, do open books, have a public roadmap, and contribute to the EFF.

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

Hi, I applied for the junior role two months ago. I never heard anything back, but I'm also somewhat concerned my email got lost entirely because I sent emails from two separate addresses - one got an immediate automated response, the other got nothing. (The second email that received a response was just a generic inquiry checking on the first, so I'm concerned that one got tossed by the automated system as well). I'd be grateful if you could let me know if it was ever seen!