Diffusion | All | SF Bay (Redwood City) | On site (office!), full-time
Diffusion SF Bay (Redwood City)
Why this grade
This listing scored 34/100, which is an F. It lost the most ground on pay transparency.
- Freshness 15 / 15 How recently it was posted. Older postings are likelier to be filled or abandoned.
- Description depth 8 / 20 How much the posting actually says about the work, measured in characters of real text.
- Remote clarity 8 / 15 Whether "remote" means anywhere, or is quietly restricted to one country.
- Corroboration 5 / 10 Whether more than one source carries this listing.
- Role specificity 3 / 10 Whether the listing is tagged well enough to tell what the role actually is.
- Pay transparency 0 / 25 A published salary range, worth more than any other single factor because it is what a candidate cannot find out without applying.
-5 Ghost-job penalty — Deducted for signals that this posting may not be a real, currently-open role — staleness, repeated relisting, or talent-pool language.
Every figure above is arithmetic over the posting itself — its salary field, its text, its age, its tags and how many sources carry it. How the grades work →
This listing does not state a salary
$163k – $275k
That is the middle half of what comparable roles paid on this board over the last 90 days — 28 listings that did publish a figure, median $178k. It is not this employer's offer, and we have no idea what they pay. It is only what the rest of the market advertised.
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Justin here, founder @ Diffusion. Formerly co-founder & CTO @ StrongDM.
We're finding the steepest gradients in the economy between model capability and deployed practice. A large part of that work is currently related to software factory construction.
All career stages welcome (including new grads). We are particularly interested in:
* Current/former founders
* High consequence / high criticality technical backgrounds
* Top decile communicators (writing, speech, video) who also make computer go brrr
Roles:
AI Eng - Factory Architect, AI Eng - Commercial, AI Eng - Compounding Leverage, Applied AI Researcher
Please expect satisfying, dignifying intensity.
Email [email protected]
Where this listing came from
- 01 Oct 2026 Hacker News first sighting
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