Posted by whoishiring 1/2/2026
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
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We are MiLaboratories, the team behind Platforma.bio & MiXCR. We are building the "OS for Biology"—a platform that processes terabytes of genomic data to accelerate antibody discovery and drug development.
We are a deep-tech research lab, not a typical SaaS. We work fully on-site in Bilbao because the complexity of our problems (high-performance computing + biological nuances) requires high-bandwidth, in-person collaboration.
We are hiring for two core roles:
1. Senior Go Engineer: You will build distributed systems for high-load genomic data processing. This is not CRUD. We need someone who understands memory management, concurrency, and algorithmic efficiency at scale.
2. Bioinformatics Developer (Antibody Discovery): You will work on the scientific core, developing blocks for NGS data analysis and antibody structure prediction. You should be fluent in both code and biology.
The Offer:
Comp: Top-tier EU salaries (~€90k - €120k).
Tax Advantage: Bizkaia has independent tax autonomy. You qualify for the "Special Impatriate Regime" (30% salary tax exemption + expense deductions).
The Reality: Your effective tax rate drops to ~15-20%, yielding a significantly higher net income than London or Berlin.
Stock: We grant ESOP and treat equity as a life-changing wealth vehicle, not a "nice to have."
Relocation: Comprehensive "Soft Landing" package (Visa, temporary housing, school search).
Location: Bilbao is a hidden gem—ocean, mountains, and high quality of life with a low cost of living.
Process: No HR screening. You will talk directly to the engineering team.
Email me (I am the CEO): stanp@milaboratories.com. Please mention "HN" in the subject and include your GitHub.
The 'Beckham Law' (24% flat rate) applies to the rest of Spain. Bizkaia has fiscal autonomy and a different system to attract talent: you get a 30% exemption on gross income plus you can deduct specific expenses (like your apartment rent, school fees, etc.) from the taxable base.
The total tax exemption can reach up to 50% of your gross income.
This stacking effect (exemption + expense deductions) is why the effective rate here often drops well below the national 24%. For example, on a €100k salary, your effective tax rate typically lands between 15-20% (depending on your rent and family status).
Blackbird builds web + mobile apps for startups and innovative companies. We work on interesting, greenfield projects, and rely on small, veteran teams who have lots of autonomy. Everyone is a remote contractor, and our work culture is low-drama and highly collaborative. No pointless meetings, no bureaucracy, no egos and lots of time spent building things.
We’re looking for senior full stack engineers / CTO consultants / data scientists. We value engineers who are strong technically as well as great communicators. We work with lots of freelancers who appreciate the steady, interesting work.
Our typical stack is TypeScript, React, Postgres, and AWS although it will vary project to project.
If you enjoy moving fast, working with great engineers, and building something from the ground up, you’ll fit right in.
If interested, reach out directly to me at vance [at] blackbird.us
Below is my portfolio https://abdullateef-portfolio-rho.vercel.app/
Kyber is an open-source SDK and platform to control remote machines, from Remote Desktop to Robots Teleoperation/Teleobservation.
Kyber is a multi-stream and multi-actuator transport in extremely-low latency, over Quic; it encloses the server, the client and the protocol.
One could use Kyber to control robots, drones, desktop, servers in the cloud or just remote rendering of interactive 3D programs. Kyber is done for Remote RealTime, where every millisecond matters.
Kyber is developed by engineers from the VLC and FFmpeg community, and we code in Rust, in C and in assembly. We have some development in Go too.
We're a quite technical team, but cool to work with.
Contact: jobs -- at -- kyber.media (subject: “HN job”)
Hey HN! I'm Alexander, one of the founders of Hatchet. Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale.
We're hiring engineers who are excited to build the next class of engineering primitives, starting with queues, background tasks and durable execution. We started in early 2024 after launching our distributed task queue (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136).
Hatchet is currently used by thousands of engineers for all kinds of workloads: log ingestion pipelines, code review agents, video encoding, GPU scheduling, etc. Our target customer is fast-growing startups who have a strong need for background jobs system. These days, that tends to be AI companies, though we're general-purpose and not exclusively targeted for AI workloads.
Stack: Postgres, Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes
Apply here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hatchet-run/jobs/SNpCm...
Or email me at alexander [at] hatchet [dot] run
Anyways, the concept looks cool, but I'm failing to see a real value add to something like Temporal. What is it?
Regarding Temporal, our goal is to create the best developer experience possible, and we started Hatchet because we felt that Temporal misses the mark (I used Temporal for years before starting Hatchet).
The primary difference is that we're not solely focused on durable workflows, we're a general-purpose background jobs platform which offers durable workflows as a feature. In our view there are a set of equally important primitives: tasks, events, streaming/pubsub, concurrency, priority, rate limiting, scheduling, and yes, durable workflows.
Tasks being the entrypoint to the platform, rather than immediately dealing with the overhead of durable workflows, generally makes Hatchet easier to adopt for engineering teams. I wrote a little more about how task queues relate to durable execution here: https://hatchet.run/blog/durable-execution
We've also invested quite heavily in platform features like logging, observability, alerting, and our UI which either aren't offered or are underdeveloped in Temporal.
But ultimately I'd encourage people to give both a try - we're both MIT licensed and can easily be run locally.
Looks interesting.
We are in the process of looking for some alternatives to temporal/prefect. Would you mind sharing your email so I can send a few questions along with my cofounder?
We’re building an AI-first bioinformatics platform to empower life science researchers with agentic AI and LLMs. Backed by pre-seed funding, a government grant, and real demand from biotech and seed companies, we’re looking for versatile engineers to help us shape the future of AI in genomics.
What you’ll do:
• Architect and build AI workflows, agentic interfaces, and data pipelines
• Work across the stack: Go, Python, TypeScript
• Contribute to system design, infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Terraform), and devops
• Collaborate closely with scientists and iterate from prototype to product
• Help define our technical culture and roadmap as a core founding member
Nice-to-haves (not all required): LLM integration, RAG systems, HPC infra, ML, cloud/on-prem hybrid systems
About us: We’re an early team of engineers and scientists with strong academic and industry backgrounds (ex-BCG, PhD in Plant Biotech, M.Sc. AI). We’re committed to building something impactful, technical, and genuinely useful for life science.
Apply: hello@ploid.ai
More about us: https://ploid.ai
We also consider internship requests from strong student candidates.
IMPORTANT: We are now seeking for expertise in frontend / full-stack and PhDs with AI applied to life science bioinformatics (multiomics and/or chem)
Thanks everyone for all the support in our August and September posts! HN really helped finding amazing engineers.
We're building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.
We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: people who are experts in one area but happy to jump in wherever needed. Our software team is small, so every member makes a real impact.
If you want to write motor control in Rust, optimize camera processing with custom CUDA kernels on Jetson, or rework a transformer-based tracker to handle small objects - you can do that here, and much more.
US persons only
We're creating state of the art AI models, including the leading foundation model for Deepfake Detection. Looking for full stack, frontend and machine learning engineers that would love to create prototypes directly with the founders.
Here's what we're looking for:
Full Stack Engineer - We are seeking a skilled Full Stack Engineer with experience with both Javascript and Python to join us. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building and deploying web applications, a passion for working on cutting-edge AI technologies, and the ability to collaborate closely with our founders to create innovative prototypes.
Product Lead - Ownership over our security AI model product suite. Lead technical + product conversations with customer engineering/security stakeholders.
Solutions Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer - Own technical success for enterprise integrations: take customers from first POC → production rollout → expansion. Partner with product/engineering to turn customer friction into roadmap, and advocate for the highest-leverage fixes.
If interested, reach out directly to me: zohaib [at] resemble.ai
If you discover the best AI detection technology, then it will eventually be used as a (negative) reward function in training future models. It's an arms race.
Would you be open to alternative techniques, like metadata, source analysis, or online (fuzzy) reverse searching? Consider that judges and court experts don't rely solely on the evidence itself to determine if it's 'real', but to an even greater extent they rely on how it was collected, if evidence has not been sourced correctly, judges don't even look at it.
We've also been doing active work in source tracing: https://github.com/piotrkawa/audio-deepfake-source-tracing
Role: Develop and implement infrastructure upgrades, database tuning, Kubernetes and Helm orchestration, monitoring, and security. Help maintain and improve our large-scale Rails monolith, including CI/CD. Participate in on-call rotation and help automate daily DevOps tasks.
Stack: MySQL/PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Terraform, Google Cloud, DataDog and more.
Applications: Rails, Vue.js/Typescript, Rust
Perks: Paid time off (2 weeks vacation, 5 statutory holidays, 2 weeks at Christmas, 4-day summer workweeks), annual company retreat, anniversary gift ($200/year), monthly music subscription reimbursement, fully paid maternity & paternity leave.
About Us: FetLife is the largest kinky social network with 10M+ members, 100% word-of-mouth growth, and billions of daily requests.
How to apply: Email jointheteam+do+hn@fetlife.com with a brief introduction, 2–3 favorite projects, GitHub/GitLab link, and LinkedIn profile or resume (PDF).
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Senior Product Manager | Full-Time | Remote | $140k - $200k USD - https://fetlife.com/jobs/product-manager
Role: Understand member needs, craft detailed product pitches, drive discovery, reduce friction, own product metrics, and guide strategy to deliver meaningful value across our large-scale platform.
Perks: Paid time off (2 weeks vacation, 5 statutory holidays, 2 weeks at Christmas, 4-day summer workweeks), annual company retreat, anniversary gift ($200/year), monthly music subscription reimbursement, fully paid maternity & paternity leave.
How to Apply: Email jointheteam+pm+hn@fetlife.com with a brief introduction, 1-2 examples of measurable product impact, and LinkedIn or resume (PDF).
Company: We're a small scientific software development company that develops custom scientific and engineering analysis applications in domains including: space situational awareness (monitoring the locations, health and status of on-orbit satellites), image simulation, high power microwave systems, modeling and simulation, laser systems modeling, AI/ML including physics-informed neural networks (PINN), human body thermoregulation, computer vision and image processing, high performance computing (HPC), computer aided design (CAD), and more. All exciting applications and no CRUD. We emphasize high quality code and lightweight processes that free software engineers to be productive.
Experience: Except for interns, we currently require a Bachelors degree in physics, engineering, math, computer science, or a related field. Masters or PhD is a plus. (Roughly 25% of our staff have PhDs.)
Technologies: Mostly C++23, Qt 6.9, CMake, git, OpenGL, CUDA, Boost, Jenkins. Windows and Linux, msvc/gcc/clang/clangcl. AI/ML and analysis projects use Python and C++. Some projects use Java or Typescript/React.
Apply online: at https://www.stellarscience.com/careers/.
American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatrics. Blueberry is the most affordable option amongst our competitors. We practice the highest quality pediatric telemedicine, as evidenced by our exclusive hiring of board-certified pediatricians and the usage of at-home medical kits. And, we’re accessible 24 hours a day.
Our success is shown in the lives we save, the costs we save our insurers, and our exploding B2B and D2C business.
As you can imagine, pulling off affordable high-quality healthcare is a challenge. It requires a lot of engineering ingenuity, a C-suite aligned with positive patient outcomes above short-term profits, and a great product team.
We use Django, Hotwire Turbo (an HTMX-like framework), Pytorch, Sklearn, and Flutter. Experience in these technologies helps, but what’s more important is general full-stack knowledge, curiosity, and a strong work ethic.
Full-stack engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blueberrypediatrics/dc8108f3-34ed-4...
Our homepage: https://blueberrypediatrics.com/
Our engineering blog: https://engineering.blueberrypediatrics.blog/
Question, while imaging is a bit less common in pediatrics. How are you handling medical images and bloodwork?
It seems like being a pediatric service, there's an opportunity to take ownership of these medical documents, both for life-long storage and centralization. Also if tech is a brand differential it seems like it would be a simple place to get a competitive advantage.