Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)

Akkio builds the AI platform the world's largest media agencies (Havas, Horizon Media, and others) use to run campaign workflows in production: audience building, media planning, measurement, and campaign analysis. Agentic workflows plus traditional ML, deployed on-premises inside agency cloud environments, directly on top of their data. We're ~50 people, past PMF, well funded, and growing revenue quickly.

We build agentically by default. Every engineer directs coding agents daily, and we're actively rebuilding our SDLC around that — not piloting it, not debating it. If you've felt that shift and want a team that's all the way in, that's us. We also run flat, so "senior" means ownership, not management layers.

Three roles, all $160k–$240k + equity:

* Forward-deployed engineer (FDE) — Python, TypeScript, true generalist. You embed with agencies whose systems steer billions in media spend and build whatever the problem needs: integrations, agent workflows, backend services. What you build in the field becomes product. Regular travel.

* Full-stack (web) — Vue.js, TypeScript, Node.js. You've run projects, guided architecture, and survived framework upgrades and large refactors. You care about the experience analysts live in every day.

* Backend — Python. Interesting work in at least two of: LLM systems and code generation, statistics, traditional AI/ML, large-scale data processing, distributed systems.

Details and application: https://www.akkio.com/jobs

All candidates must be authorized to work in the US.

Springcraft is building the platform for physical AI.

Today, building robots and intelligent machines means navigating fragmented tools, incompatible hardware, and closed ecosystems. It takes too long, costs too much, and locks builders in. There is no default platform for physical AI. We're building it. Springcraft brings together purpose-built hardware, developer tools, and AI models into one open, integrated system so that builders can create machines that sense, understand, and act in the real world.

As the first manufacturing hire, you'll own how our hardware gets made, from first builds through volume production. This is a foundational, hands-on hire. You'll be on the bench and at the machines, partnering directly with our hardware engineers. You'll build the manufacturing function from zero and lead it as the company grows.

More info and application at https://www.springcraft.ai/careers/?role=manufacturing-engin...