kylixz

Ditto | Engineering & Product | Remote (US: Atlanta, Austin, SF, Seattle) + APAC | Full-time https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ditto

https://docs.ditto.live/home/about-ditto

I've been obsessed with CRDTs since I first saw them at Strange Loop years ago, and I still can't quite believe I now get to work on them for a living — in some of the most challenging environments there are: disconnected, degraded, contested, out where the cloud isn't. If that's your kind of problem, come build with us.

Ditto is the edge-native data platform that keeps distributed systems in sync when the network doesn't cooperate — an offline-first, CRDT-based layer syncing any device (phone, vehicle, sensor, server) over Bluetooth LE, P2P Wi-Fi, LAN, and tactical radio, with or without connectivity. Same core, commercial to defense; operationally deployed and network-agnostic. The problems are the fun kind: conflict-free replication with no server and no synchronized clock, multi-transport routing that never drops the connection, moving a coherent picture over links as thin as an HF radio shot, and human-in-the-loop robotics/autonomy where a detection may have to be physically carried by a moving node. Concept to field in days, not months.

Most roles are open to anyone authorized to work in the U.S.; Public Sector and forward-deployed roles require U.S. person status. Remote in the U.S. (hubs: Atlanta, Austin, SF, Seattle) unless noted.

Product — Senior PM: Cloud Database & Integrations; Cloud Infrastructure & Platform

Engineering — Engineering Manager, Data Sync

Public Sector (U.S. persons) — Senior SWE: Autonomy · Systems FDE · Portal (ATL/remote) · FDE (SF, on-site); SWE, Public Sector Application

Core Technologies — Senior SWE: Rust · Data Sync · Database · Networking · Bluetooth · React Native SDK · Android (ATL)

Cloud Services — Senior SWE, Cloud (x2)

Infrastructure — Staff SWE, Platform; Senior Platform Engineer, Operator; Senior SRE; Senior SRE, APAC (remote)

If interested apply above and mention Hackernews.July.26

If anyone wants to help make MANETs better with TAK… check out opportunities on ditto.com where the team is building crdts and using them to help enable SAR. Say Turner sent you in your application if it looks interesting. Particularly the FDE role.

Shoot me a resume steven ~dot~ turner ~-at-~ ditto -~dot~- com

Ditto | Public Safety Forward Engineer | Full-time | Remote (North America preferred)

Ditto is building an edge-first, peer2peer database and streaming APIs that solve challenging data synchronization problems. Our core is built on CRDTs and Rust.

If you know networking, ATAK, p2p, ROS2 or wireless MANETs please apply. I’m building out a team to apply the technology to life saving markets and need a hand. You’ll own some greenfield development, get out in the field with firefighters, work with UAVs, and ride multicast over cutting edge mesh radios.

Compensation 130-210k + equity and benefits.

Interested then apply at this link https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dittoliveincorporated and mention HackerNews. There are other opportunities listed as well!

Interested in doing more of this type of work optimizing a SLAM/factorgraph pipeline?

Email in bio and would love to chat!

This is a bit snarky — but will Intel actually keep this product line alive for more than a few years? Having been bitten by building products around some of their non-x86 offerings where they killed good IP off and then failed to support it… I’m skeptical.

I truly do hope it is successful so we can have some alternative accelerators.

Darkhive.com | United States | REMOTE | Full-time | $150-220k + early shares, employee #10-15

There are two kinds of drone companies on the market. DJI and everyone else you haven't heard of. If you want to change that, particularly in the US, check us out. We are creating a palm-sized, autonomous drones to help de-escalate dangerous situations.

If ROS2, sUAS, GTSAM, SolidWorks, aerospace, hard realtime systems, and drones are things you're familiar with or interested in, let's chat. Shipped a consumer product in volume? Let's chat.

Maybe you're working an another UAS/Drone company that's larger and want to flex your brain to have more direct impact and ownership of your creations. Apply below and mention HackerNews.

Let's make drones more affordable and accessible to public safety, humanitarian, and defense applications.

- Position can be 100% remote (US Only). Relocation to San Antonio, TX would be awesome.

- We do in person meetings when needed. We are just 14 people.

- We're a startup, but we have funding and contracts. We're all mid-career so we want a sustainable, mature, diverse working environment.

- This position will involve defense work. However, we will never build drones that can harm people.

Hit me up direct at { sturner at darkhive dot com }

You seem knowledgeable about this stuff — do you work in this space? I’m trying to do some feature extraction from multiple global shutters right now on limited hardware and its a learning experience!

I recommend checking out: https://talonvoice.com/

Darkhive.com | United States | REMOTE | Full-time | $150-220k + early shares, employee #10-15

Darkhive is creating a palm-sized, autonomous drone optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of our software stack. The integrated software and hardware solution are key to realizing the full potential of the product in our target markets.

If ROS2, sUAS, GTSAM, SolidWorks, and aerospace are things you're familiar with or interested in, let's chat. Shipped a consumer product in volume? Let's chat. Maybe you're working an another UAS/Drone company that's larger and want to flex your brain to have more direct impact and ownership of your creations. Apply below and mention HackerNews.

Let's make drones more affordable and accessible to public safety, humanitarian, and defense applications.

- Position can be 100% remote (US Only). Relocation to San Antonio, TX preferred. - We do in person meetings when needed. We are just 10 people. - We're a startup, but we have funding and contracts. We're all mid-career so we want a sustainable, mature, diverse working environment. - This position will involve defense work. However, we will never build drones that can harm people.

For more details on available positions check out: https://apply.workable.com/darkhive/

Darkhive.com | United States | REMOTE | Full-time | $150-220k + early shares, employee #5-10

Public safety and military robotics systems are unintegrated with existing equipment and applications. They require too much specialized training, making them incredibly niche and significantly inhibiting broad adoption.

Darkhive is creating a palm-sized, autonomous drone optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of our software stack. The integrated software and hardware solution are key to realizing the full potential of the product in our target markets.

If ROS2, DDS, sUAS, GTSAM, SolidWorks, and aerospace are things you're familiar with or interested in, let's chat. Maybe you're working an another UAS/Drone company that's larger and want to flex your brain to have more direct impact and ownership of your creations. Apply below and mention HackerNews.

We're looking for early hires to build out our SLAM stack, optimize the airframe, and build novel autonomous solutions. Our robots are designed and built in the USA. Let's make drones more affordable and accessible to public safety, humanitarian, and defense applications.

- Position can be 100% remote (US Only). Relocation to San Antonio, TX preferred. - We do in person meetings when needed. We are just 10 people. - We're a startup, but we have funding and contracts. We're all mid-career so we want a sustainable, mature, diverse working environment. - This position will involve defense work. However, we will never build drones that can harm people.

For more details on available positions check out: https://apply.workable.com/darkhive/

I would love to pick your brain if you have some time. Recently founded robotics company trying to navigate predictable success.

I did software work for most of my career and am a huge fan of remote and hybrid arrangements.

But having started a hardware robotics company… it does seem more difficult to run the team remotely. When we get together in person, everything moves faster. We have more equipment. EEs can fix things on the spot. Perception engineers can perceive their algorithm’s behavior in front of their face. We can mitigate safety concerns with proper protections.

I wish we could all be remote, but I think the team does need a component of hybrid to pool resources and move faster. I only say this as there’s a lot of “C-suite bad they just want to micromanage” and I feel like it’s not that simple for many businesses.

Definitely a fan of your work at Manna, Bobby.

Love the hardware design and the no-nonsense "get it done" with continuous drone operations in Europe. Things for us to aspire towards as another drone (non-delivery) company.

There are some companies/efforts in the space:

https://www.manna.aero/ https://www.flyzipline.com/ https://wing.com/ https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2022/05/24/were-bring...

Several more out there still from the initial bust.

Regulations make it challenging for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) autonomous delivery, particularly in the US with the FAA. Also, it's a hard problem in autonomy to nail it every time despite advancements. Less than 1% failure is still potentially catastrophic when you're carrying a few pounds of lithium batteries above people's backyards.

The smaller unit we are building will have some different payload configs. We aren’t going for glass breakers and such based on feedback and what is most popular on the market (DJI). We want these to help mitigate the dangerous environments in public safety and be disposable. Like a frisbee. Shoot me an email! Happy to chat more.

Thanks for the support! We would love to come out and test. Shoot me an email in my profile and let’s stay in touch. Happy to share more.

Are you able to share these blogs? Sounds very interesting.

https://darkhive.ai small uncrewed aerial systems for public safety. Other companies still dominate the market and for good reason. We aim to bring US-made equipment that is competitive and affordable.

I did this for about 2 years across the United States. If you’re employed, make sure your manager is supportive/already remote friendly.

Get good internet. I found Verizon to be the best for cellular and this was before Starlink Mobile was available. Get a directional cellular antenna and mount (not a repeater/amplifier) and learn how to point the antenna at towers if you plan to do any “boondocking” out in the west of the US. Otherwise, everywhere else these days likely has internet.

Compost Toilet is a win in my book. Very little maintenance and no nasty tanks to deal with. But, it’s not for everyone.

Decide if you need showers in your wheeled home or not. That drives the cost of your rig significantly. Most RVs are absolute trash for quality south of $50k.

I am most intrigued by the use of the 6x Sony IMX418 which seems to be brilliant for daisy-chaining cameras over MIPI lines in such a small package even if the sensor is older. Anyone else have experience with these?

What model Dell? Satisfied? We’ve tried some other Linux friendly brands and the quality control has been less than stellar.

Darkhive.com | United States | REMOTE | Full-time | $120-200k + early shares, employee #5-10

Public safety and military robotics systems are unintegrated with existing equipment and applications. They require too much specialized training on, making them incredibly niche and significantly inhibiting broad adoption.

Darkhive is creating an autonomy software stack that will enable military and public safety users to intuitively interact with robotics platforms in order to more rapidly understand their common environment and make decisions together when it matters most. In addition to our core software suite, Darkhive is creating a palm-sized, autonomous drone optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of our software stack. The integrated software and hardware solution are key to realizing the full potential of the product in our target markets.

We're looking for early hires to build out our SLAM stack and plumbing to pilot the drones. Our robots are designed and built in the USA. Let's make drones more affordable and accessible to public safety, humanitarian, and defense applications.

- Position can be 100% remote (US Only).

- We do in person meetings when needed. Still a very small team!

- We're a startup, but we have funding and contracts. We're all mid-career so we want a sustainable, mature, diverse working environment.

- This position will involve defense work. However, we will never build drones that can harm people.

For more details on available positions check out: https://apply.workable.com/darkhive/

Darkhive.com | United States | REMOTE | Full-time | $120-200k + early shares, employee #5-10

Public safety and military robotics systems are unintegrated with existing equipment and applications. They require too much specialized training on, making them incredibly niche and significantly inhibiting broad adoption.

Darkhive is creating an autonomy software stack that will enable military and public safety users to intuitively interact with robotics platforms in order to more rapidly understand their common environment and make decisions together when it matters most. In addition to our core software suite, Darkhive is creating a palm-sized, autonomous drone optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of our software stack. The integrated software and hardware solution are key to realizing the full potential of the product in our target markets.

We're looking for early hires to build out our SLAM stack and plumbing to pilot the drones. Our robots are designed and built in the USA. Let's make drones more affordable and accessible to public safety, humanitarian, and defense applications.

- Position can be 100% remote (US Only).

- We do in person meetings when needed. Still a very small team!

- We're a startup, but we have funding and contracts. We're all mid-career so we want a sustainable, mature, diverse working environment.

- This position will involve defense work. However, we will never build drones that can harm people.

For more details on available positions check out: https://apply.workable.com/darkhive/

Darkhive | United States | REMOTE | Darkhive.com

Public safety and military robotics systems are unintegrated with existing equipment and applications. They require too much specialized training on, making them incredibly niche and significantly inhibiting broad adoption.

Darkhive is creating an autonomy software stack that will enable military and public safety users to intuitively interact with robotics platforms in order to more rapidly understand their common environment and make decisions together when it matters most. In addition to our core software suite, Darkhive is creating a palm-sized, autonomous drone optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of our software stack. The integrated software and hardware solution are key to realizing the full potential of the product in our target markets.

We're looking for an early hire to build out our SLAM stack. Our robots are designed and built in the USA. Let's make drones more affordable and accessible to public safety, humanitarian, and defense applications.

- Position can be 100% remote (US Only). - We do in person meetings for fun/coordination when needed. Still a very small team!

- We're a startup, but we have funding and contracts. We're all mid-career so we want a sustainable, mature, diverse working environment.

- This position will involve defense work. However, we will never build drones that can harm people.

For more details on available positions check out: https://apply.workable.com/darkhive/

@danbr -- this is random but saw you are a perception engineer. I'm looking for someone that I think has your experience. Not doing space stuff. If interested, hit me up through profile.

Great breakdown… with some interesting results and a ton of effort.

Are there any open benchmarks like this for all models that are actually runnable like the data exposed in https://github.com/syhw/wer_are_we but with some of your additional metrics?

Darkhive | San Antonio, TX or Remote US | REMOTE | Darkhive.com

Public safety and military robotics systems are unintegrated with existing equipment and applications. They require too much specialized training on, making them incredibly niche and significantly inhibiting broad adoption.

Darkhive is creating an autonomy software stack that will enable military and public safety users to intuitively interact with robotics platforms in order to more rapidly understand their common environment and make decisions together when it matters most. In addition to our core software suite, Darkhive is creating a palm-sized, autonomous drone optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of our software stack. The integrated software and hardware solution are key to realizing the full potential of the product in our target markets.

We are super early and looking for engineers with experience shipping solutions in:

- Machine / Computer Vision

- SLAM

- Robotic Perception and Navigation

- Autonomous Flight

- Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems

- Reinforcement Learning

- Deep Learning Audio Research

Our stack is still forming but we leverage ROS2, PyTorch, Tensorflow, and Qualcomm-based hardware. Our team is composed of engineers and special operations veterans out of the TAK.gov community and we are committed to building open platforms for defense and public safety. As for culture, rolling out of burnout we aim for sustainability. Get work done and disconnect-live your life and spend time with family/friends.

Compensation would include salary (120-200k) and equity as an early hire.

San Antonio or Remote! Positive if able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance, but not a requirement.

Reach out at:

careers @ darkhive.ai

FWIW I'm trying to build this. We're not targeting consumers initially, but maybe in the long run for your kind of use cases. contact info in about, happy to chat more about your use case.

Used to hang out more on IRC for various platforms and tools but those are less active these days. https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=Libera.Chat has a decent list on Libera Chat.

https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ can be a good resource for talking with folks of diverse experience and backgrounds about architecture.