Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes for research Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, C++; LLM and coding agents, evaluation harnesses and graders, benchmark design and auditing, tool use/MCP, RAG and retrieval, agent observability Résumé/CV: https://june.kim/about Email: june@june.kim Research/evaluation engineer with 10+ years in software engineering, including Google/YouTube, Loom, and startups. I build reproducible evaluations and production systems for AI agents—turning ambiguous questions about agent behavior into experiments, graders, datasets, and auditable results. Research and work samples: https://june.kim/research GitHub: https://github.com/kimjune01

Location: Porto, Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Lua, C, C++, GameDev, Python, know some embedded and some cloud stuff. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gamedesigner Email: mauricio.gomes@coderofworlds.com Looking for C or C++ roles. (or similar). GameDev and Embedded at my first choices but any work with these technologies is fine. I am hoping to find work where I am NOT firefighting or replacing someone that quit. I want time to do onboarding properly, learn the job, and do a great job. My wife gave birth recently and I don't have nearby relatives to help, so I prefer remote jobs right now. I also did DevRel in the past and recently interviewed some DevRel positions, made me realize I am also suitable for that and willing to work with that. I have a lot of experience with iOS and Android, but been some time since I worked with these.

Location: Los Angeles, California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Full Stack, Linux, Media Pipelines, FFmpeg, Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, Agentic Engineering, Python, Django, SQL, Javascript, Typescript, Adobe, Resolve, VFX Software Résumé/CV: https://danzimmer.net CV Available upon request Email: dan@danzimmer.net I'm a Software Engineer with 15 years of entertainment industry experience, specializing in full-stack development, complex media pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Lately I have been building SaaS products like https://timelinetranslate.com which enables video editors to easily create translations of their content. Open to senior/lead engineering roles using AI.

Location: EU, overlap with US East+West Time Zones Remote: Yes Relocation: No Technologies: Claude Code, Rust, C++, Python, Go, Zig, Haskell, TypeScript, JS, Nix, K8s, Terraform Email: damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com CV: on request 長 Senior engineer / tech lead (20+ YOE). Former IC → EM → Director → CTO. 宝 Multiple exits. Hands-on, or owning the whole technical org. 勝 Highlights: — Designed and shipped a commercial LLM end-to-end (algorithms → training → MLops) — Expert at agentic workflows (Claude Code, harnesses, autonomous agents, LLM-powered dev) — Shipped prod systems for Oracle, Shell, Time Warner, BoA, Sparkasse, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas — Launched and audited major blockchains (e.g. Tezos, Solana) — Built + scaled a software NGO (2M+ supporters, 1k+ volunteers) 睿 Strengths: Turn ambiguous problems into shipped systems; MVPs that don’t need rewriting; ML, LLMs, Foundation Models, RAGs, vector DBs; 10x–1000x performance wins on legacy systems; FP, Compilers, DSLs, distributed systems, security-critical code 功 Further work: Contributor: Rust Book, Rust By Example, Python docs, Haskell Communities and Activities Report; Dozens of audits, background in cryptography, infosec, formal methods 運 If you need someone who can own the stack and ship reliably, email me at damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com

Location: Pisa, Italy (CET) Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, LLM/agent orchestration (local embeddings, RAG, tool-calling agents), AWS, production incident response & service re-architecture, NLP/Transformers Email: valeriya.slovikovskaya@gmail.com 15+ years building and running production software, currently a Team Lead / Software Architect at a UK fintech/consumer-services company. The work I actually get pulled into most, beyond the job title: taking over a service after it's already broken and rebuilding it so it stops breaking — production incident response and re-architecture, unofficial but real, no ticket tracker needed, just the git history. Ten months ago I grew a team from 1 to 7 — hired and onboarded everyone myself, rebuilt the codebase, got real end-to-end acceptance-test coverage running with the whole team's buy-in. Right now I'm deep in agentic AI/LLM systems as an engineer, not a researcher (there's a PhD in Physics and a published NLP/Transformers paper behind me, but I'm 20 years into building software, not chasing a research title). Currently building: a local-embeddings market-signal tool (Ollama, cosine similarity, zero API cost) that mines sources and ranks them against a role description I wrote myself; a tool-calling agent that turns unstructured regulatory text into a deterministic tax-calculation pipeline. Looking for agentic AI/LLM engineering, technical architecture, or production-reliability roles — genuine employment or named-delivery consulting.