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Thanks for the head's up - fixed!

Fig | Founding Engineer | San Francisco (hybrid) | $220k-$280k + meaningful equity

Fig is hiring its founding engineer.

Fig builds software for industrial ingredient processors, the companies between farmers and the food brands you buy. Most of them still run on paper binders: production schedules, sanitation checks, quality logs. Tech has mostly ignored them.

This is a high-ownership seat. You'll work directly with the founders, who come from food, to build a platform that pulls together fragmented food-industry data, then the AI layer on top of it. Think Glean for the food industry. Customers who signed on as design partners a year ago are still here and still shape the roadmap.

Stack: Kotlin, React, TypeScript, GCP, Postgres, Terraform.

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What a great article. I miss when Hacker News was for the interested and curious!

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Truly insane

There's a lot of AI job slop that's flooding the market for genuine applications.

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No. I think coupling OpenAI's fortunes and the prospects of LLM-native applications is a step too far

Yeah I worry about how we build the bench because it’s only a few short years before it’s all staff level folks and no one junior

NooooooooooOooOooOo!

They won't. It's the same data collection play as every other Google project

Just for clarity on this comment and a separate one, Niantic is a Google spin out company and appears to still be majority shareholder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niantic,_Inc.#As_an_independen...

Genuinely impressed Google had the vision and resources to commit to a 10 year data collection project

Def: a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation)

Favorites include

- Alexander Graham Bell, developer of the telephone

- Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, neurologist

- Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America (Bowser is a character from a flagship Nintendo franchise, Super Mario

Just found it interesting

didn't see, thanks!

"As Kelly Ortberg presented his strategic vision, more than 33,000 striking employees of the aerospace manufacturer were expected to vote on a new contract."

This became a much more engaged conversation than I expected! I interpreted the writer as saying that

1. Communicating your value to other departments is a skill that you can learn

2. Learning how to do this lets you own the narrative within an organization

3. Owning your department's narrative is how "normal" work relationships work

4. That engineering hasn't needed to do this before is an anomaly

5. Now's a good time to learn

I'm the OP. I didn't say this

Why was this flagged? Just thought it was an interesting post and seems like it sparked a lively conversation

"Moving Day was a tradition in New York City dating back to colonial times and lasting until after World War II. On February 1, sometimes known as "Rent Day", landlords would give notice to their tenants what the new rent would be after the end of the quarter,[1] and the tenants would spend good-weather days in the early spring searching for new houses and the best deals.[2] On May 1,[3] all leases in the city expired simultaneously at 9:00 am, causing thousands of people to change their residences, all at the same time.[4][5]"

This is really upsetting as a portrait of what's wrong with academia

Very cool! This makes a lot of sense across the board. Thanks for explaining this!