what's a $1 billion robot company doing on long island?

Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in,

It’s me. I’m what the cat dragged in. 😽

I know it’s been a minute. I could give you my excuses (there are several, two of them even true), but you didn’t open this email for excuses.

SpaceX went public this morning. You don’t need me to tell you that - it’s everywhere. What you need me for is the stuff that ISN’T everywhere: the $1 billion robot company in Glen Cove, Long Island. The fusion plant in Everett, Washington hiring a hundred people. The healthcare startup hiring in Akron, Lubbock, AND Kalamazoo. That’s today’s issue: 500+ verified open jobs, almost all at companies your group chat hasn’t heard of yet.

Missed you. Meant it.

Xoxo,

Jordan

Poll me up, before you go-go

The j.o.b.s. buffet is OPEN

Mach Industries builds defense tech in Huntington Beach, CA, and just landed a $300 million series C led by Ribbit Capital. They have EIGHTY-TWO open jobs across Huntington Beach, Victorville, and San Luis Obispo - and the range is wild: aerodynamicists, CNC machinists, crew chiefs, firmware engineers, a director of quality, even an HR generalist. If you like making real things that go very fast, SoCal is calling.

Nourish runs the country’s largest dietitian-led metabolic health clinic, with a fresh $100 million series C led by Menlo Ventures. Here’s why I love this one: FIFTY-SEVEN open jobs, and most of them are nowhere near a coastal tech hub. Territory sales roles in Akron, Lubbock, Kalamazoo, Dayton, Tampa, Milwaukee, Annapolis… your city probably made the list. Plus REMOTE nurse practitioners and physicians, a director of growth creative, and engineering managers in NYC/SF.

Helion is building an actual fusion power plant in Everett, Washington, backed by a $465 million series G led by Thrive Capital. They have ONE HUNDRED SIX open jobs, all in Everett: plasma scientists (obviously), but also manufacturing engineers, technologists, EHS specialists, and a senior manager of people operations. Commercial fusion needs welders AND PhDs. 🌞

Hark raised a $700 million series A at a $6 billion valuation for a “universal AI interface” nobody outside the building has seen. But squint at their 45 open jobs in San Jose - acoustic integration, haptics firmware, speech infrastructure - and you can have fun guessing what it is. 🔍 They also need a lead brand designer and a finance manager.

Standard Bots makes AI-native industrial robots in Glen Cove, NY, and just hit a $1 billion valuation with a $200 million series C. They have 26 open jobs across Glen Cove, NYC, and Philly, including an AI research engineer ($225K-$300K). And the detail that made my whole week: they’re hiring a janitor - and the janitor gets equity. THAT is how you build a company.

TensorWave runs AMD-powered AI cloud infrastructure from - wait for it - Las Vegas, baby 🎰, fresh off a $350 million series B led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures. They have 31 open jobs, mostly Vegas with a few REMOTE - infrastructure engineers galore, plus some delightful curveballs (see next section).

Generalist AI is teaching robots to do, well, everything - they raised $400 million led by Radical Ventures and have 15 open jobs split between San Mateo and Somerville (Boston). ML robotics engineers, yes, but also a chief of staff, an office manager, and a data collection lab manager.

PhysicsX uses AI to speed up the design of physical machines - planes, cars, the heavy stuff - with a new $300 million series C. They have 36 open jobs across London, NYC, SF, and Singapore: data scientists, forward deployed engineers, and more.

Iceye flies a constellation of Earth-monitoring satellites 🛰️ and just pulled in a $520 million series F led by General Atlantic. For my international readers (and expat-curious Americans - remember November’s Toby Talks?): ONE HUNDRED TWENTY open jobs, mostly Espoo, Finland, plus Warsaw and Valencia.

PointFive hunts down wasted cloud spend with AI - CFOs everywhere just felt a disturbance in the force. They have a new $60 million series B from Accel, Index, and Salesforce Ventures, and 10 open jobs in NYC, Denver, Boston, London, and Tel Aviv. Highlights: a director of global solutions engineering ($280K-$330K) and an inside sales rep in Denver ($100K-$135K).

Non-engineer jobs at very-engineer companies

The hard-tech companies above need way more than engineers. All verified open as of this morning:

• TensorWave needs a senior podcast producer, a video editor, and a graphic designer in Las Vegas. Imagine the b-roll.

• Standard Bots needs an experiential marketing lead in NYC and a front desk & facilities coordinator ($66.3K-$78K + equity) in Glen Cove.

• Helion needs a senior manager of people operations to help staff a fusion plant. Imagine THAT job description.

• PhysicsX needs an executive assistant in NYC and a content & communications strategist in London.

• PointFive needs a brand & creative senior manager ($165K-$180K) in Boston.

• Mach Industries needs an HR generalist in Huntington Beach. Somebody has to onboard the aerodynamicists.

Required reading

• Brynn Putnam - who sold Mirror to Lululemon for $500 million - raised a $20 million series A for Board, her “together tech” game startup that’s already sold thousands of units. No public job board yet - I’m keeping an eye out for you. 👀

• Benchmark raised its first-ever growth fund as part of a $2 billion haul - more late-stage money means more growth-stage hiring at exactly the kind of companies this newsletter exists for. Good news for yew.

One more thing: if you want a real human (hi, it me) matching you with startups like these, apply to the a16z talent network. Real eyes, real hearts, real matches.

👨🏻‍💻 Thanks for reading. You mean the world to me. Still. Always.

Don’t be a stranger (that’s my job)

-Jordan