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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.

Current public signals

A starting point for finding your next client

Each source below is the employer's public job page. Searchlight last observed these roles active 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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What this does — and does not — mean

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Public hiring activity does not prove that a company uses outside recruiters, wants agency help or will become a client. Searchlight helps you decide which potential clients are worth researching further; you still qualify each company and choose how to reach out.

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