Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity

I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase.

Shortwave (https://www.shortwave.com/) is building an AI-powered email client. We're bringing the power of LLMs & a modern messaging UX to 4.5 billion email users.

Imagine an AI virtual assistant with perfect knowledge of every message, attachment, receipt, newsletter, etc you've ever sent or received. Your AI assistant can answer questions about your email ("which candidates in my inbox have experience with Kotlin?") and act on your behalf ("Draft responses asking them to schedule a time with me").

We want the best and are willing to pay for it. We like generalists with strong CS fundamentals, app development experience, and grit. We're well-funded and backed by Union Square Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Come help us build the future. Email if interested: joinourteam@shortwave.com

magicalhippo · 3 years ago

Unrelated to the job, but I've missed Inbox ever since it got axed. As such, your product looks really interesting.

However, given that there's no mention of it on the Security page[1], I'll assume you'll be selling my data to third parties. One thing is accepting Google looking at my mail for Google's sake, but there's a limit to who I want to share my mail with.

[1]: https://www.shortwave.com/docs/concepts/security/

codethief · 3 years ago

Your post says

> Onsite in San Francisco

but your website states

> We're a distributed team

Are you distributed within San Francisco? :)

kyawzazaw · 3 years ago

They used to be remote.

United States Digital Service (USDS) | Senior Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and more! | Washington, DC or Remote USA | https://www.usds.gov/

The United States Digital Service is a team of cross-agency federal technologists who work on some of the biggest issues affecting the American people, including: streamlining immigration, helping veterans get benefits, modernizing health care, reforming hiring, fixing procurement, and more. Visit our projects page for examples of problems you’d help solve: https://www.usds.gov/projects

We're looking for the most empathetic, mission-driven, and tenacious technologists who are committed to untangling, rewiring, and redesigning critical government services. We hire folks from all walks of life who have demonstrable experience tackling complicated problems in the public, private, or non-profit sectors. We're hiring for:

  * Software Engineers (Frontend, Backend, Full Stack, DevOps)
  * Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Security Engineers
  * Product Managers
  * Data Scientists
  * Designers (Generalists, Strategists, User Researchers, Interaction Designers, Content Strategists, Design Operations, and everything in between)
  * Procurement Specialists
  * Bureaucracy Hackers
  * and more!

We are currently hiring for both remote employees and people who are local to Washington, D.C. Come join us in shifting government tech in the right direction -- no prior government experience required!

Apply and read about our hiring process here: https://www.usds.gov/apply

ericmcer · 3 years ago

I applied and got a rejection letter saying they do not hire juniors/interns. I have 8 YOE. Maybe check your automated filters haha.

atuladhar · 3 years ago

FYI for others -- from https://www.usds.gov/apply I understand that only US citizens (not even permanent residents) are considered.

May 2023 - 272 comments so far Apr 2023 - 592 comments Mar 2023 - 641 comments Feb 2023 - 602 comments Jan 2023 - 535 comments Dec 2022 - 583 comments Nov 2022 - 642 comments Oct 2022 - 567 comments Sep 2022 - 629 comments Aug 2022 - 771 comments Jul 2022 - 630 comments Jun 2022 - 864 comments May 2022 - 856 comments May 2021 - 933 comments May 2020 - 697 comments May 2019 - 1020 comments May 2018 - 1198 comments May 2017 - 1096 comments May 2016 - 937 comments May 2015 - 891 comments

mayop100 · 3 years ago

alottabit · 3 years ago

TestFit | C Software Developer - Procedural Generation | Full-time | Remote (CST +/- 2)

We design buildings in milliseconds. It can be hard to describe in words - I'd encourage you to get a quick glimpse of our neighborhood layout tool at https://testfit.io/release/testfit-3-07-subdivision-configur.... Our real-time automation allows real estate developers and architects to design projects in a fraction of the time required with traditional CAD software packages.

We are hiring a software engineer to join our small team and add more functionality to our procedural generation systems written in C99. If you like solving tough spatial problems using 2D vectors and geometry, managing your own memory, and optimizing algorithms to run in under a millisecond, then we might be the company for you (being prone to ranting about how much RAM Slack uses is also a good sign). At TestFit were are seeking to create a company of people who are capable, humble, and hard-working.

You can apply at https://jobs.lever.co/testfit/62bb6dfe-fd34-41c3-8cf3-5318a0....

jesse__ · 3 years ago

I interviewed with TestFit last year and my opinion of this company is extremely high. The team seems great, and the strong focus on realtime performance in an industry that would certainly tolerate less almost brings a tear to my eye.

Highly recommend.

usdsgov · 3 years ago

anonu · 3 years ago

Response looked a bit weaker than usual, so I was curious on the comment count on historical posts. Of course, comments can keep being added for 2 weeks before the thread is locked.

I used https://hn.algolia.com/ for quick searching.

mebassett · 3 years ago

I might point out that today is labour day in most of the world, so that might lead to fewer posts.

bfung · 3 years ago

From having scraped HN job posts before, I’ve observed that it does take the full 2 weeks for these job postings to come in. I’d wait awhile before drawing any conclusions from today’s post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773972

savorypiano · 3 years ago

Interesting that 2017-2019 had the most comments. I would have thought the market peaked in 2021.

franciscop · 3 years ago

Market might've peaked in 2021 salary-wise BECAUSE people were not willing to move so much? Not because of demand (more job openings), but because of restricted supply (devs were prob unwilling to move in uncertain times). Just a thought though.

Racing0461 · 3 years ago

Is that just top level comments (aka actual job openings) or total comments (where discussions biasing the data)

ikiris · 3 years ago

its also only the first of the month, and a holiday in many areas.

liue · 3 years ago

Bluesky | https://blueskyweb.xyz/ | Full-time | Engineering | Remote, overlap with PST

Bluesky is building social network protocols. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications, and we’re applying it to create a federated social network where users have more control.

• Open source protocol: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto • Websites: https://blueskyweb.xyz/, https://atproto.com, https://bsky.app/

We’re looking for Go, Typescript, mobile, and web developers. Apply at https://blueskyweb.org/join.

evnc · 3 years ago

Not affiliated, just wanted to pop in and say this team seems to really have caught lightning in a bottle. Their userbase is growing rapidly, they've onboarded notable public figures and Twitter power users, and it seems poised to really take over the mantle from Twitter. And the underlying protocol is really fascinating.

The team is active on the app and they are all good people who work hard and think deeply about this stuff, I'd highly recommend applying! (I'd apply myself but I'm a Python/data guy, which doesn't line up w/ advertised roles right now)

petes23 · 3 years ago

Scratchpad (https://scratchpad.com/) | REMOTE (US/Canada) | Full-time | Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Apply here: https://www.scratchpad.com/careers?ashby_jid=66f0b171-53fc-4...

The estimated base salary range for this role is $172,000 - $200,000

Tech Stack: Golang, Postgres, Vue

We build software to enable high-performing sales teams (notes, spreadsheets, rule engines, reporting).

Working on the Engineering Team

You will collaborate with engineers, leadership, product, design, and customers to drive quality and innovation. Being a creative problem solver, you’ll enjoy designing solutions for difficult engineering problems. Building a workspace designed to improve sales performance is not easy, so we're looking for resilient and ambitious people who are excited by this challenge. If you’re compelled to work on a team that leads with empathy, values personal growth and never stops learning, join us!

About Scratchpad

At Scratchpad, our mission is to unlock the highest levels of performance for sales teams. We believe we can do that by reducing complexity and creating delightful experiences, which has led us to pioneer the first workspace for revenue teams. We take the most tedious parts of daily work and turn them into efficient, delightful experiences that positively impact salespeople's professional and personal lives.

apavlo · 3 years ago

OtterTune | REMOTE | Full-time | https://ottertune.com

OtterTune is a database optimization-as-a-service company based on research out of Carnegie Mellon University. We use ML to automatically improve the performance of MySQL/PostgreSQL databases running on Amazon. We are a remote-first company. We are backed by VC's at IntelCap, RaceCap, Accel and the co-founders of Snowflake, DataBricks, SingleStore, CockroachDB, and Duolingo.

* Front-end Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/ottertune/7ce5d9b0-c54f-41e1-9367-b7b3...

Legit compensation + equity. 401k w/ matching. Unlimited PTO + sickdays + paid FMLA.

We are also hiring for other roles: https://ottertune.com/careers/

Email me if you have questions: pavlo@ottertune.com

colechristensen · 3 years ago

>We are also hiring for other roles: https://ottertune.com/careers/

None are listed :)

Is the list not showing up for you? Can you email me a screenshot: pavlo@ottertune.com

It should look like this: https://i.imgur.com/abB2NJX.png

jpmoral · 3 years ago

Remote US/Canada

dlwh · 3 years ago

Stanford CRFM | Bay Area | Full-Time | On-Site, Hybrid

Foundation models like ChatGPT, PaLM, and Stable Diffusion are transforming the world around us. The Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM; https://crfm.stanford.edu/), which is part of Stanford HAI, is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to make foundation models more reliable, transparent and accessible to the world. We take on ambitious projects that seek to rigorously evaluate existing foundation models and to build new ones.

We are currently seeking a research engineer to join our engineering team. This is an unique opportunity to work with seasoned engineers who have spent many years in industry as well as PhD students, post-docs, and faculty at CRFM. You will contribute to cutting-edge research, publish papers, gain access to the latest foundation models, and be immersed in the vibrant CRFM community.

You will work on our open source software projects, including:

  - HELM, a framework for holistic evaluation of large language models 
  - Levanter, a framework for transparent and accessible large-scale language model training

For more information or to apply, please go to https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/research-engineer-213...

jselysianeagle · 3 years ago

I wish this was open to remote at least within California if not further out!