Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

The August 2026 thread follows the established Hacker News format: companies post one listing each, must be personally part of the hiring company, and must state location including remote or onsite designation. The thread had 182 comments at the time of extraction, with postings appearing in chronological order. A parallel 'Who wants to be hired?' thread exists for job seekers to share structured profiles including location, remote preference, willingness to relocate, technologies, résumé link, and email.

The postings visible in the extract reveal a market leaning heavily into AI infrastructure and applied AI. Nango is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer at $140K, $220K plus equity to scale integration systems for AI agents, with remote options across North America, LATAM, and Europe. Tuza is building AI agents for banks and hiring both a Product Engineer and an AI Engineer in London with visa sponsorship, requiring four-plus years of experience in React/Node/TypeScript and Python multi-agent workflows respectively. SafetyWing is hiring globally and fully remote, building insurance and retirement products for remote workers.

Security engineering appears as a distinct hiring track, particularly in regulated environments. Elucid, an FDA-cleared AI cardiac imaging company in Boston, is hiring a Senior Security Engineer at $130K, $170K in a hybrid onsite arrangement. The role spans application security, cloud infrastructure hardening, and regulatory compliance under HIPAA, ISO 13485, and ISO 27001, reflecting the intersection of security work and medical device regulation. The posting asks for five-plus years of experience and fluency in OWASP Top 10, authentication, and cryptography fundamentals.

Location and work-arrangement patterns across the visible postings show a split rather than a dominant model. Nango offers remote across multiple regions plus onsite in San Francisco. Tuza requires three days per week onsite in London. Elucid is hybrid in Boston. SafetyWing is fully remote globally. This suggests no single arrangement has consolidated as the default, and companies are specifying terms per role rather than per company. Salary transparency is consistent across the postings that include ranges, with equity mentioned in most.

The thread includes pointers to third-party search tools for filtering job posts, including nthesis.ai, dheerajck.github.io, nchelluri.github.io, and hnjobs.emilburzo.com. These are community-built scrapers or aggregators rather than official Hacker News products. The thread rules discourage off-topic replies and ask readers to only email posters if genuinely interested, indicating the moderation model relies on social norms rather than automated enforcement.