Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
- ID
- 20615
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 01 Sep 2026, 11:01 PM
- Fetched
- 02 Sep 2026, 5:57 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522897
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 3.5
- Created
- 02 Sep 2026, 6:04 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersai_ml_learners
What happened
HN's monthly 'Who is hiring?' thread for September 2026 is live. One highlighted listing is Interview Resources, a profitable AI-powered interview-prep startup with 3k+ paid users and $250k seed funding, hiring 2 remote Full Stack AI Engineers and 1 GTM role. Their stack includes Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, plus LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, RAG, and vector databases, with salary at $30k–$90k adjusted by 'per capita' (i.e., location-based cost of living).
Why it matters
If you are job-hunting remotely in AI engineering, this confirms that small profitable AI startups are hiring globally and adjusting salary by local cost of living rather than paying flat US rates—so a Malaysian-based engineer would likely land at the lower end of that $30k–$90k band. The requested stack (LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, RAG, vector DBs) signals what skills to invest in now if targeting this segment.
Discussion angle
Is the 'per capita' salary model (adjusting pay by local cost of living) becoming the default for remote AI roles, and how should Malaysian engineers position themselves against it—accept the lower band or negotiate toward the top?