The True Engineer is an engineering leadership and software development publication platform hosted on Substack. Authored by Adlet Balzhanov, a senior software engineering lead with background in Big Tech and high-growth enterprise scale-ups, the publication delivers monthly long-form analytical essays, career frameworks, and strategic insights for software developers, engineering managers, and technology executives. Operating under a creator-driven digital subscription model, the newsletter focuses on technical leadership tactics, staff-level engineering practices, organizational dynamics within large tech companies, and navigating the operational impacts of AI on software development.
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden • Artificial Intelligence
$165k – $230k per year • Equity • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
Reinforcement Learning
Post-training
SFT
Recommender Systems
Treasure Financial is a corporate treasury management platform designed to help businesses earn higher yields on their idle cash reserves. It automates cash management by seamlessly routing company funds into safe, high-yielding liquid assets like U.S. Treasury bills and money market funds. By offering enterprise-grade security and real-time visibility, the platform enables finance teams to maximize interest income while keeping operational liquidity easily accessible.
HQ: New York, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • Stablecoins • Crypto Payments • Est. 2021
≈ $122k – $269k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States, Puerto Rico) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Anomaly Detection
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Data Augmentation
Fine-tuning
Synthetic Data
Brightwheel is an educational technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2014. The company provides an all-in-one software platform for childcare providers and preschools that manages administrative tasks such as enrollment, attendance tracking, automated billing, and parent communication. It serves thousands of early childhood education programs across the United States, ranging from in-home daycares to large multi-site centers, and is backed by venture capital firms.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Payments • Financial Services • Billing & Invoicing • Software • EdTech Platforms • Early Childhood Education • Education • Est. 2014
$194k – $263k per year • Lead • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Principal
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
Databases
Amazon Redshift
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
LangChain
Langfuse
LangGraph
Semantic Search
AWS Bedrock AgentCore
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI Codex
Semantic Search
Function Calling
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
AWS CDK
AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
CloudFormation
Docker
FluxCD
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Vector
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
GitHub
Marketing
Salesforce
QA
Cypress
Vitest
$194k – $263k per year • Lead • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Principal
Kotlin
Ruby
Swift
TypeScript
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
Function Calling
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Jetpack Compose
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
CI/CD
Docker
FluxCD
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Vector
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
GitHub
$154k – $237k per year • Staff+ • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Kotlin
Ruby
Swift
TypeScript
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
Function Calling
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Jetpack Compose
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
CI/CD
Docker
FluxCD
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Vector
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
GitHub
JANE.hr is a company based out of Old City, Philadelphia that is changing the landscape of recruiting. Jane helps growing organizations efficiently recruit the right talent while creating a positive candidate experience.\r \r Our own team is hand-pi...
HQ: Vancouver, Canada • Professional Services • Human Resources • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2012
$115k – $160k per year • Lead • Remote (United States, United Kingdom, Canada) • Full-Time • Staff
LLM
Semantic Search
Claude
Marketing
HubSpot
LiveKit is an open-source real-time audio, video, and AI voice infrastructure platform headquartered in San Francisco. The company provides cloud and developer infrastructure designed to build ultra-low-latency video conferencing, live streaming, and interactive multimodal AI voice agents into web and mobile applications. Powered by flexible SDKs and scalable server orchestration, LiveKit is widely used by developers and enterprise teams to deploy real-time voice and video applications at global scale.
HQ: San Francisco, San Jose, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2021
$135k – $300k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA, North America) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Synthetic Data
PEFT
LiveKit
OpenAI
Post-training
Fine-tuning
Llama
LoRA
Qwen
Reinforcement Learning
SGLang
vLLM
FSDP
GRPO
LLM Evaluation
Marketing
Salesforce
Discover how Constellation's strategy and purpose makes us the nation's largest producer of clean, reliable energy for homes, businesses and industries.
HQ: Baltimore, United States • Fossil Fuels • Nuclear Energy • Energy & Utilities • Est. 2022
$180k – $250k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
JAX
Multimodal AI
NLP
PyTorch
Time Series Forecasting
Stripe is an American-Irish multinational financial infrastructure and SaaS company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, and Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison, the firm provides developer-centric payment processing software and APIs for internet businesses.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Commerce • Artificial Intelligence • Blockchain & Crypto • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2010
≈ $223k – $452k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Internship • Staff
Databricks
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
Feature Store
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
Amazon SageMaker
OpenAI
Function Calling
RAG
DevOps
AWS
StackAdapt is a programmatic advertising technology company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and founded in 2013. The company provides a demand-side platform that utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the buying and placement of digital advertisements across channels such as connected TV, video, display, native, and audio. It serves over 40,000 brands and agencies globally, offering tools for audience targeting, creative management, and real-time performance measurement.
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Digital Media • Media & Entertainment • Marketing Analytics • Data & Analytics • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Advertising • Est. 2013
≈ $113k – $280k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Columbia • Remote (United States, Canada) • Cofounder
Intuitive is a global medical technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and a pioneer in robotic-assisted surgery. It develops, manufactures, and markets minimally invasive care systems, including the da Vinci surgical system and the Ion endoluminal system. The company helps physicians and hospitals perform complex procedures with enhanced precision, visualization, and control.
HQ: Sunnyvale, United States • Health Care • Robotics • Medical Devices • Medical & Healthcare Robotics • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $159k – $308k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle • English
C++
Java
Python
TypeScript
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
Python
Celery
Databases
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
Redis
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Synthetic Data
Time Series Forecasting
JAX
MLFlow
PyTorch
Ray
TensorFlow
Weights & Biases
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
SLURM
Game Dev
NVIDIA PhysX
Robotics
Isaac Lab
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Sim-to-Real
Gazebo
ROS
≈ $161k – $312k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Bash
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
Multimodal AI
OpenCL
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Edge AI
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
Quantization
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Robotics
Path Planning
Sensor Fusion
Hims & Hers is a telehealth and wellness company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2017. The platform provides access to medical consultations and a range of prescription and over-the-counter products for hair loss, sexual health, skincare, mental health, and weight management. Operating primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom, the company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and focuses on making healthcare more accessible and affordable through a digital-first approach.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Personal Care • Consumer Goods • Mental Health • Wellness • Pharmaceuticals • Health Care • Digital Health • Est. 2017
$240k – $265k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
MLFlow
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Management
Slack
Genmo is a San Francisco company founded in 2021 that develops open video generation models. Its Mochi model was released with open weights and became one of the stronger freely available text-to-video systems, used widely by researchers and creative developers. The company positions open models as the foundation for a broader generative video ecosystem.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Generative Video • Est. 2021
≈ $167k – $365k per year (Estimated) • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time
Diffusion Models
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Post-training
SFT
≈ $119k – $278k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Diffusion Models
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Transformers
≈ $159k – $309k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Triton
InfiniBand
Frontend
Sass
Infrastructure for understanding AI Infrastructure for understanding AI. Transluce is a non-profit research lab building the public tech stack for scalable oversight of AI.
San Francisco • 11-50 employees
$250k – $450k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
$310k – $500k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
$350k – $600k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
LLM
vLLM
AI Agents
Acquia provides the leading cloud platform for building, delivering, and optimizing digital experiences.
HQ: Boston, United States • Software • Content Management Systems (CMS) • Cloud Computing • Est. 2007
≈ $151k – $302k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Python
PHP
Python
Pydantic
PHP
Drupal
AI/ML
AI Agents
CrewAI
LangChain
Langfuse
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Claude
Copilot
Cursor
Fine-tuning
Human-in-the-Loop
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
SLI/SLO/SLA
Vector
Vizcom turns rough sketches into rendered product concepts using generative models trained for industrial design. Founded in 2021 in San Francisco, it lets designers keep control of form while the model handles material and lighting. Automotive and consumer product studios use it during early ideation.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
$163k – $208k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Post-training
Multimodal AI
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Analytics
ETL/ELT
$164k – $215k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
Reinforcement Learning
Post-training
SFT
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
$164k – $215k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Post-training
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
berry virtual is one of the leaders in the virtual staffing industry with a fully comprehensive approach to growing your business strategically with elite global staff, business advisory, marketing and finance. with over a century of combined exp...
Real Estate • Professional Services • Virtual Assistant Services
≈ $14k – $41k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 1+ year exp • Remote (United States, India, Colombia, Mexico, Philippines) • Full-Time • Junior
Java
Python
C++
AI/ML
ChatGPT
OCR
Analytics
Power BI
Tableau
Management
Zapier
≈ $17k – $46k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States, India, Colombia, Mexico, Philippines) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
AutoGPT
CrewAI
LangChain
LangGraph
LLM
Model Context Protocol
RAG
Context Engineering
Hugging Face
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
ChatGPT
OCR
DevOps
Azure
Analytics
Power BI
Tableau
Management
Zapier
Remote (United States, India, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico) • Full-Time
OCR
ChatGPT
Analytics
Power BI
Tableau
Management
Zapier
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is a leading technology integrator providing enterprise IT, artificial intelligence, and cloud solutions primarily to government, defense, and intelligence agencies. The company specializes in modernizing complex digital infrastructure, strengthening cybersecurity frameworks, and managing mission-critical systems for public sector clients. Operating as a business unit of defense giant General Dynamics, it plays a key role in driving digital transformation across national security, healthcare, and civil agency operations.
HQ: Falls Church, United States • Military • Government • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees
$164k – $207k per year • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Computer Vision
LLM
Multimodal AI
LLM Guardrails
LLMOps
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
IAM
CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader specializing in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, and publicly traded on the Nasdaq (CRWD), the company provides real-time security solutions to enterprises worldwide.
HQ: Austin, United States • Cybersecurity AI • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Professional Services • Application Security • Threat Intelligence • Endpoint Security • Cybersecurity • 5000+ employees
≈ $174k – $325k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
LLM
Post-training
AI Agents
Function Calling
Synthetic Data
Cybersecurity
Crowdstrike
≈ $146k – $262k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • United States • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
LLM Guardrails
Cybersecurity
Crowdstrike
≈ $156k – $282k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Lead • 10+ years exp • United States • Canada • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Principal
Python
Python
Dask
Databases
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Kubeflow
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Edge AI
AI Agents
Flink
LangChain
LlamaIndex
MLFlow
Spark
Vertex AI
Amazon SageMaker
DevOps
AWS
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Cybersecurity
Crowdstrike
Postman is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that was founded in 2014. Its platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for the entire API lifecycle, including design, documentation, testing, and monitoring, as well as collaborative workspaces for development teams. The company operates on a global scale, supporting over 30 million developers and the majority of Fortune 500 companies through its cloud-based and desktop applications.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Communication & Collaboration • Artificial Intelligence • Quality Assurance • Web Development • AI Agents • Information Technology • DevOps • Software • Est. 2014
$219k – $288k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States)
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
JAX
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
TensorFlow
Transfer Learning
QA
Postman
$256k – $276k per year • Equity • Lead • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Staff
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
JAX
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
TensorFlow
QA
Postman
Discover how Unlearn uses AI to create digital twins of clinical trial participants, streamlining clinical development and enabling confident decision-making.
San Francisco • Industrial IoT (IIoT) • Internet of Things • Simulation & Digital Twin
$140k – $165k per year • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Python
AI/ML
LLM
NLP
Reinforcement Learning
DevOps
AWS
Robotics
Digital Twin
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
San Francisco • New York • 51-200 employees
$130k – $200k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Anthropic
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
Marketing
Salesforce
$190k – $265k per year • Senior • 4+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Anthropic
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
Marketing
Salesforce
