cloud seeding + chemtrails, but these jobs aren't a hoax

This startup is making it rain (literally) + how to use GPT as your career agent

Good morning sweeties,

So many good things today. A juicy list of hiring companies with some very niche positions and a block of bonus job-searching tips.

Yours five-ever (longer than forever)

❤️ Jordan

Agent, not adversary: Job searching with generative AI

Artificial intelligence put Mark Quinn out of a job. He saw it coming, his employer saw it coming. So he left that job in health tech, but the battle wasn’t over between Mark and AI. The job search that followed was thwarted by AI at every turn. Where were the AI-proof jobs? So, rather than worry about what AI would do to him, he writes, he decided to focus on what it could do for him.

Mark created this CareerBuddy GPT instead. Then he wrote about it for Fast Company.

TL;DR He used it for the rote tasks of applying, like tailoring resumes and drafting cover letters, but he also employed it as a “strategic partner” assessing his candidacy for roles, generating leads, and vetting organizations.

Definitely worth a full read.

Company spotlight: Rainmaker

Cloudseeding startup Rainmaker wants to solve the global problem of water scarcity by actively creating abundant freshwater. The use cases are many, like increasing agricultural output, risk-proofing public water supplies, mitigating drought (and wildfires), and restoring ecosystems otherwise threatened by climate change.

This future-forward company announced their $25 million Series A in May.

Rainmaker is hiring for a bunch of roles at their HQ in El Segundo, CA. Really cool shit too, like a meteorological radar specialist, a senior atmospheric scientist-convection (can someone tell me what that means?), a robotics engineer, and a senior manufacturing engineer. The list is pretty long, so check out all the open roles here.

New jobs

Ready? Let’s go.

Kalshi is setting out to create a new asset class. Kind of like micro-betting. As they put it: “Kalshi’s event contracts let you trade on real-world outcomes that matter to you using simple yes-or-no questions. Will Donald Trump win the election? Will Philadelphia win the title? Will BTC hit 150K? Will Beyoncé drop a new album?” Pretty cool. Super novel. They’re hiring both for NYC and remote jobs.

Atmo, a meteorology startup and partner to Rainmaker in its quest to find clouds that can be seeded, is hiring in SF.

Helios is an AI agent for lobbyists and government employees. They’ve got open engineering jobs in NYC. All of them are hiring at $150K+.

You won’t find this one on LinkedIn: Game-testing startup nunu.ai is looking for an LLM engineer in Zurich and an intern tasked with reverse-engineering a game of their choice.

Mesh, the AI finance coworker, is looking for a founding engineer. But don’t apply through the LinkedIn post. You can email them directly at founders@usemesh.com or DM co-founder Nandini Ramakrishnan on LinkedIn.

OpenPipe, a platform for fine-tuning LLMs, is hiring for a few positions in Bellevue, WA, including three founding engineer positions, and a DevRel engineer in SF. All of them are hiring at $150K+.

The metaverse venture builders at Improbable are filling four engineering roles and one graphics programmer job in the UK.

Micro, which is building an AI-powered productivity tool for email, CRM, and project management is looking for a founding full stack engineer and a founding full stack AI engineer.

Pinecone makes it easier to add vector search to production applications. Lots of open jobs in NYC.

Moonshot AI is hiring for a few roles in NYC, among them is a chief of staff to the CTO, a role that requires some deep technical know-how. An interesting job for a techie who wants to expand their oeuvre. They’re the company behind the Kimi chatbot, which, as Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, is outperforming GPT-4.

Bonus job searching tip: AI orchestrators are so in right now

VentureBeat published an op-ed about how start-ups should stop vetting engineers like it’s 2021. It’s all about AI fluency now.

Jacqueline Samira, CEO of Howdy.com, writes that an “AI orchestrator” is now the ideal developer archetype. They don’t write code, but rather prompt and then refine.

She recommends four ways employers can assess an engineer’s AI competency. Here’s how to make this key knowledge drop work for you:

• Demonstrate real-world problem-solving. You should be able to use generative AI to create code without writing anything from scratch.

• Show off your prompting skills by exhibiting at “clarity of thought” rather than syntax dexterity.

• Confirm your authenticity by sharing your screen and leaving your camera on the whole time. Deepfakes are out there, folks.

• Demonstrate your judgment. OK, so you can generate code, but can you tell if it’s good code?

👨🏻‍💻 Thanks for reading. I’m already looking forward to next week. Write me a letter, or maybe a message in a bottle, and tell me what you want me to find out for you.

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