US startup engineering recruiter desk
Three engineering signals worth researching today.
Searchlight turns current public hiring activity into a focused company-research queue for recruiters.
These examples were checked on September 19, 2026.
Replit · Remote, United States
Senior and Staff Site Reliability Engineers
Two US-remote SRE roles were updated September 18. The paired senior and staff openings may merit research by recruiters covering reliability, cloud platform and production engineering.
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Mercor · San Francisco
Research Engineer — Environments, Data and Post-Training
This research-engineering role was updated September 18. It may be relevant to desks covering model evaluation, training data and applied AI engineering.
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Modal · San Francisco
Inference Engineering and Product Lead
This role was updated September 16 and combines inference systems with product leadership. It may merit research by recruiters working senior AI infrastructure and technical-product searches.
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