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henrikm85··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
Google | Senior Staff Software Engineer, CodeAI | Munich, Germany | On-site

The role is to help set technical direction for how we build and use coding agents at Google: agent infrastructure, making Googlers more productive with agents, and making the agents themselves better.

We’re especially looking for someone who has actually built agentic systems and has experience using them to make software development materially faster in a large engineering organization. This is not primarily a “follow the space” role — we want someone who has shipped these systems, learned what works and what doesn’t, and can use that experience to shape the next generation.

The space is moving very quickly and is competitive both inside Google and externally. We’re looking for someone highly creative who wants to challenge how things are done today, has strong technical judgment, and can turn ideas into working systems with the team.

A big part of the role is not just setting direction, but getting there: prototyping, building, iterating, and inspiring the team to rethink what is possible.

If that sounds interesting, please apply:

https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/resul...

henrikm85··on Ask HN: What's your worst Uber Eats/Door dash experience?
SF Bay Area
henrikm85··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
While, as a father, I instinctively hate your answer, it is a very good point that helped me see beyond my previous horizon, thanks for that!
henrikm85··on Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot
While funny, I still cringe because of the http://www.dict.cc/?s=fremdschaemen
henrikm85··on U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers
I switched jobs on H1B recently and I don't see what you think the leash is. The process takes about two weeks and as far as I can tell there is no realistic risk of losing the H1B even if your (about to be) former employer fires you and the new company butchers the transfer [1].

As a side-note, me changing jobs fairly dramatically increased my salary. I could presumably (I did not negotiate with old employer but a colleague did when he was about to leave) have gotten the same salary at my old place just by showing the new offer. I don't really see where the difference to a citizen is in this whole exercise.

([1] this is so because even if in the worst case you were kicked out of the country you could still reclaim the remaining time on the H1B so the worst case is still limited and I know of zero such cases.)

henrikm85··on Ask HN: What's your best C/C++ profiling tool, hints and best practice?
Valgrind is nice, however, especially with multi-threaded programs the virtualized execution diverges from a non-valgrind-VM run quite a bit so I am not a huge fan.
henrikm85··on Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js
Actually, this is pretty cool for teaching students!
henrikm85··on Ask HN: Review my startup, passubuy.com
It takes quite a while to load, I would suggest fixing that early.
henrikm85··on Ask HN: What do you use to find available domains?
Not bad but I must say https://domai.nr/ looks better for my needs, thanks though.
henrikm85··on Ask HN: What do you use to find available domains?
I've always wondered about that myself... that's what I meant by "bogus" :-) Thanks!
henrikm85··on Ask HN: What do you use to find available domains?
That's really good, thank you!
henrikm85··on Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp
I can hardly read that grey used on sequoia's blog. Just sayin'...
henrikm85··on Stripe-CTF 3 Writeup
I completely agree with this statement.
henrikm85··on Stripe-CTF 3 Writeup
I actually think there is a middle ground; just bump the deadline, allow people to still solve it and get a T-shirt but freeze the scores and everybody's happy.

Btw, I agree that the scoring needs to be consistent or less coarse grained (percentiles) so that people don't submit thousands of attempts to get the max out of their solution...

henrikm85··on Stripe-CTF 3 Writeup
Good job. Did you have previous experience with writing GPU code?
henrikm85··on Stripe-CTF 3 Writeup
Thank you. What you have to keep in mind is that I do databases research for a living so many of the problems involved in each challenge are very familiar to me. My suggestion to you is to get a stronger systems programming background, I figure that's what helped me the most.
henrikm85··on Stripe-CTF 3 Writeup
Op here, just wanted to say thanks. Of course it is not cheating in the sense that I tricked the system to give me a better score than warranted but my solution only works for this ONE dictionary so.. maybe it is not cheating but using tighter assumptions than those which were provided by the original task description :-)
henrikm85··on Stripe-CTF 3 Writeup
Op here. I have done a lot of work involving hash tables in main-memory database research and therefore really like applying those optimizations. You are right though that it might be overkill :-)
henrikm85··on We wrote a CEO page and it works
Extremely slow for me, http://rsync.net.nyud.net/products/ceopage.html works.
henrikm85··on Rails 4.0.1 has been released
And here I thought that meteor killed this thing like a week ago.
henrikm85··on TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM
That was probably because of a capacitor somewhere in the power supply though..., right?