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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

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  1. uctalent · · focus · HN ↗
    Portless | AI Engineer | REMOTE (North America only) | Full-time | $180K-$230K + equity

    Founding AI engineer seat. AI adoption at Portless today is basic (decks, spreadsheets, call summaries, a bit of vibe-coded dashboards) — no real end-to-end agentic workflows yet. You'll build the AI infrastructure: shipping high-impact agentic workflows yourself, and building reusable "Lego blocks" (APIs, MCP tools, docs) so any team can build their own. Cross-functional, high-leverage role touching every team, working directly with leadership. Example first project: an agent for inbound invoice questions — understands the question, pulls the right invoice, drafts a context-aware reply for a teammate to click-send, turning an hour of work into ~30 seconds.

    Stack: Python, TypeScript, LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI), MCP, RAG, vector databases, agent orchestration, Cursor/Claude Code. Requirements: Must be based in North America. 3+ years software engineering with 1-2+ years building production AI systems, 10+ real agentic/LLM workflows shipped end-to-end, platform mindset (built tools/infra for others, not just yourself), strong Python and/or TypeScript across backend and lightweight frontend, relevant sector background (e-commerce, 3PL, logistics, or comparable B2B).

    Nice to have: RAG pipelines, vector DBs, multi-step tool-use&#x2F;agent orchestration, evals frameworks. Full JD + Apply: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uctalent.io&#x2F;referral&#x2F;Huynh_Nhu_Bao_Nhan221138&#x2F;erKmmo1S6rLGtq0_DJ30d?utm_source=headhunter&amp;utm_medium=referral" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uctalent.io&#x2F;referral&#x2F;Huynh_Nhu_Bao_Nhan221138&#x2F;erKmmo...

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