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

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  1. fxtentacle · · focus · HN ↗
    Location: Kiel, Germany (CET)

    Remote: Yes. EU hours; US-East mornings work. On-site in northern Germany.

    Willing to relocate: No

    Technologies: C++, Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, CUDA/SIMD; computer vision (retrieval at scale, inspection, SfM/SLAM); German speech recognition on-prem; real-time audio and kernel drivers; embedded/edge inference; RL environments (PPO, verifiable rewards); the boring enterprise plumbing around all of it

    Résumé&#x2F;CV: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hajo.me&#x2F;cv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hajo.me&#x2F;cv&#x2F;

    Email: hn@hajo.me

    I&#x27;m the fractional ImageRights CTO, looking for a 2nd startup that needs hands-on tech, scale, or AI help.

    I have 18 years of experience across 5 companies in taking products from idea to paying customers. I&#x27;ve built ImageRights&#x27; web search and image-retrieval database (C++, in service since 2015, finds copyright infringements worldwide), DeutscheKI (100% private German AI and local ASR), and before that the Spatial Audio Designer, used in Hollywood. And a German image distribution start-up.

    I have experience with AI research, adaptation, and training. I&#x27;ve built AI RLVR training tasks in the past. Won the 2021 Bomberland mid-season with PPO. I&#x27;m also open to northern German on-prem CV&#x2F;ASR work in case you cannot ship data to any cloud.

    Side interests: I built a Pump It Up pad with custom self-developed and self-manufactured sensors. Currently doing CAD design and policy training (with PPO) for a robot.

    Recently I&#x27;ve been debugging MSFS2024 inside Proton: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ValveSoftware&#x2F;Proton&#x2F;issues&#x2F;8255#issuecomment-4352410256" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ValveSoftware&#x2F;Proton&#x2F;issues&#x2F;8255#issuecom...

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