💰 $300K base, ex-OpenAI CTO, and a sleepy new AI baby 👶

Plus, lots of founding, remote, and entry-level jobs!

Hi, everyone! It me. Jordan.

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Company spotlight: Thinking Machines

TinkerToy… the OG thinking machines

OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati is recently out of stealth with her ultra buzzy startup Thinking Machines. Their first product, Tinker, a training API for researchers, is still blinking its sleepy little eyes in a brand new world.

They need a product engineer, a data infrastructure engineer, and an infrastructure generalist. Thanks to their $2 billion seed announced this summer (omg it makes my eyes hurt to look at), these roles start at $300K.

Toby Talks (expert advice on landing that next j.o.b.)

I like this post from Anirban Kundu of Polymath Qapital, who writes about what gets evaluated in hiring (agency, attitude, and aptitude) but what really matters:

• Agency: “If you’re not happening to things, things are happening to you. Don’t wait for things to happen to you.”

• Attitude: “Agency gets you moving. Attitude keeps you moving.”

• Aptitude: This is table stakes. You can’t be an engineer unless you can code, “but once you cross the baseline threshold, what separates extraordinary careers from ordinary ones is not IQ points or résumés. It’s agency and attitude.”

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Real talk you need rn

“Don’t be a generic ‘full‑stack developer’ or ‘product manager.’ Be the person who does [specific thing] for [specific industry] using [specific approach]. Make it so narrow that when someone needs exactly that, you’re the only name that comes up.” Nate B. Jones, AI strategist and product leader based in Seattle

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⚡️Openne jobz ⚡️

Reducto turns messy, unstructured documents into structured data using AI that actually understands layout, handwriting, and form semantics. They also just announced their series B, bringing their total funding to $108M. They’re hiring across engineering and product to scale their document intelligence stack. Their office is in SF.

The AI-powered supply chain OS Auger, founded by former Amazon exec Dave Clark, is hiring across engineering, product, finance, and CS. All jobs are at their Bellevue, WA, headquarters.

🚨 (REMOTE) - Granted, which helps consumers get the max value out of their insurance plans, is building their founding team across engineering, operations, and marketing. Many of these jobs are REMOTE within the continental United States.

Relace, which builds infrastructure for coding agents, has raised a hot and fresh $23 million series A. They’re hiring for a few roles in SF. Notably: They’re open to hiring new grads for a machine learning scientist and their GTM engineer.

Kernel, the developer platform that lets AI agents use applications 🤯, is building its founding team. Jobs are in SF or Cincinnati. Heads up! They need an entry-level software engineer.

Foundational model lab Datacurve has a bunch of open roles in SF, including strategic project lead and founding design engineer. Everyone works a hybrid schedule in SF.

🚨 (REMOTE) - AI-native observability platform dash0 has TWENTY-ONE jobs open across CS, R&D, marketing, design, and sales. Many of them are REMOTE or hybrid. They’re comin’ atcha with a fresh $35 million series A.

EVEN MORE jobz

🚨 (REMOTE) - 3D reality capture app Polycam has a handful of REMOTE jobs open, including senior computer vision engineer and lifecycle marketing lead.

Mandolin, which makes automation software for specialty pharmaceuticals, is hiring in their SF offices, including a founding marketer, a senior tech recruiter, and an entry-level tech staffer (starting at $160K + equity).

Spline, the web-based, real-time, and multi-user 3D spatial design platform, is looking for a cloud security engineer, a ML research scientist, and a ML engineer (needs just 2 years of experience!).

Flint, whose autonomous website agent is backed by Sheryl Sandberg, is hiring its founding team in SF.

Further AI is making what they call the ChatGPT for the insurance industry, and they’re hiring in SF and India.

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For your earz 🎧

• Podcast corner: Endless Thread and 99% Invisible have teamed up for a series called Hidden Levels, about how video games have made the world around us. If only they could capture how they’ve made my heart. 💜

• British corner: This old-school, 1996 BBC segment about the making of GTA.

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Thanks for being here

❤️ xoxo,

Jordan