Posted by whoishiring 1/2/2026
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
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Hi, I’m Mel at Gaia AI (https://www.gaia-ai.eco/).
We’re a small GreenTech startup in Boston building hardware and software in the forestry space.
Role: Full stack / platform engineer working on the web app and mobile app. Our stack includes TypeScript, React, Mongo, AWS, and React-native.
Role: Robotic Perception / Computer Vision / Machine Learning engineer working on a sensor-packed backpack for foresters. Our stack includes LiDAR, Vision, SLAM, and Rust.
Preferred Years of Experience: >= 3
Company Size: 7 people
Company Location: Downtown Boston near South Station
For Fullstack apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXplH__tMz_EIRS4yq...
For Perception apply here: https://forms.gle/t7uwLgo5UgadkzrAA
Feel free to reach out to me with questions: mel at gaia-ai.eco
Photon gives patients ownership of prescriptions. Our platform enables clinicians to send prescriptions to patients via text, giving them the power to compare prices, choose their pharmacy, and save money. By putting transparency and choice into patients’ hands, we’re reshaping the way prescriptions work.
Join us if you're looking to make a real impact on an industry desperately in need of one. Fill out an application here https://jobs.gem.com/photon/am9icG9zdDpL4xgxKjrEK2H6aICx8Qye !
Stack: Typescript, React, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes
Looking for a hands-on senior engineer to own AI search & retrieval in production (Python, RAG, vector DBs, cloud). Strong bias to shipping.
Salary + meaningful ownership. Apply: ewa@howie.systems (ewa- i am a founder&CEO, team 6 FTE atm, raising seed now and growing) https://howie.systems Full JD: https://bit.ly/4prjMTJ
Octane is the #1 Powersports lender in the US and has expanded into other verticals, such as RVs, marine vehicles, and autos.
Our Platform Engineering team plays a critical role in building and maintaining the highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure that powers our business. We are seeking a seasoned Staff Platform Engineer to serve as the technical lead for the team. This leadership position will be responsible for shaping the strategy, architecture, and delivery of our core platform services while mentoring engineers and guiding best practices across the organization. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AWS and cloud infrastructure and thrives on solving complex challenges at scale.
Full job description: https://octane.co/o/who-we-are/careers/jobs-open/?gh_jid=741...
Octane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/octane-lending/posts/?feedV...
Note: I direct our data and platform teams, so you would report to me. Happy to answer questions.
Engineers at Prodia build the systems that make image + video generation fast, reliable, and easy for developers to use.
This is a highly practical role: shipping models, features, and improvements that show up directly in latency, quality, and uptime.
Sample projects include… * Optimising, testing, and integrating frontier image/video models (research -> production) * Building the best APIs for developers: clean ergonomics, great docs, predictable behaviour * Designing evals + observability: catching regressions, ranking outputs, and understanding quality changes * Improving our distributed job scheduling (throughput, latency, fairness, cost) * Reading the latest papers to gather methods for future improvements * Using the newest AI/agentic tooling to speed up debugging, experimentation, and iteration
You might be a fit if… * You’re an excellent programmer and love shipping quickly * You're a first principles thinker who is unfazed by hard problems * You're looking to learn more about machine learning at a rapid pace * No specific degree or background required — show us what you’ve built and how you think
Please email me: monty at prodia dot com. If you're in London, I'd love to buy you coffee and learn more about you.
Hi HN - I'm the founder of Stardrift, and we're looking for a founding engineer to join our team of 3.
We are building a world-class travel agent experience. In the future, you won’t book travel by opening ten tabs in Google Flights; you’ll book through a personalized AI assistant that understands everything about you and automatically arranges your trip for you.
You'll tackle everything from optimizing LLM performance and building evals to integrating with APIs for rail and flight networks around the world. We care about moving fast and writing high-quality code; your job will be to take customer feedback and improve our product, working with me & the rest of the founding team.
Here's a tech blog we wrote about some of the systems engineering we do: https://stardrift.ai/blog/streaming-resumptions.
You can find more info at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stardrift/jobs/nC7cjhB.... Email leila@stardrift.ai to apply.
Unit is building GTV, a new video platform that can automatically produce high-quality, personalized content.
Our team is from Instagram, TikTok, and NVIDIA. We're backed by Khosla Ventures, Air Street Capital, and angels from top AI labs. We have strong traction, paying customers, and an exciting year ahead.
We're hiring for multiple roles:
- Backend Software Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gtv/d17dd0c3-cb91-4dcb-8543-3752807...
- Fullstack Software Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gtv/7ef9e46c-7b8c-49c3-b138-b055af7...
- ML Infra Software Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gtv/954d9a64-90f1-4e38-85c9-9873a60...
- Product Designer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gtv/9b36a9a2-a865-4cc8-8b88-0892189...
If you're interested, please reach out directly to me at omid[at]unit.inc
Kato is building a compliance-first AI servicing platform for the $24B lending market. While others treat regulatory guardrails as an afterthought, we’ve built a regulatory rules system with an AI decision engine on top. Our first product is a Voice AI agent currently handling loan servicing calls for major fintechs like Bilt Rewards and Parafin.
We are backed by Pear VC and angels from Brex, Bridge, and Square. You’ll be our second engineering hire, working directly with our CTO (ex-Google/Brex EM) and CEO (ex-Goldman/Brex).
The Role: As an early hire, you’ll own mission-critical projects across the entire stack. You’ll lead the architecture of our real-time voice processing system, optimize LLM integrations for compliance-aware conversations, and build out our customer-facing dashboards.
Tech Stack:
Backend: Golang, PostgreSQL
Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, React, Tailwind
Infra: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
AI/ML: LLMs, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech
Requirements:
2-5 years of production software experience.
Strong API design and architectural thinking.
An "owner's mindset"—we are a small, high-intensity team where everyone drives product direction.
Experience with WebRTC, real-time audio, or FinTech is a plus but not required.
Location: San Francisco (4 days/week in-person).
To apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/214dc247-0778-485b-8a3d-067...
Journalytic is an early-stage company building a mission-critical operating system for professional investment teams. We combine behavioral science, structured workflows, and well-crafted software to help hedge funds, family offices, and RIAs make better decisions every day.
We’re a remote team with hubs in Pennsylvania, California, and Seattle. This role is perfect for an engineer who relishes complex technical challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. You’ll be joining a team of passionate A+ players who will support you and challenge you to grow. You won’t be a small cog in a big machine. Your work will have a direct impact on how the world’s best investors operate.
For full details and to apply, visit https://jobs.journalytic.com
We are embarking on an initiative to modernize and unify Bloomberg’s authentication landscape. Your work will directly affect the experience of Bloomberg’s employees and clients worldwide.
You'll need to have
- Experience guiding the architecture of large scale authentication systems.
- Experience developing or operating Open ID Providers, Authorization Servers, and Identity Providers
- Deep understanding of OAuth, OIDC, SAML, FIDO or similar protocols
You can expect to
- Lead design and development of Bloomberg’s next-generation authentication and MFA systems, aligning with future product goals
- Create scalable, end-to-end identity solutions across web, API, and proprietary technologies
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners across product, design, and engineering
Apply: https://bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobDetail/Senior-Softw...