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Careers

No open roles right now

We are not hiring at the moment. When that changes, postings will appear here and nowhere else first.
No role listed here implies a clearance, and none is offered.

01Open roles

Nothing open at the moment

If you build the kind of thing described on this site and want to be considered when a role opens, write to us. Send work, not a cover letter.

services@blacksmithai.net

Postings appear on this page first. There is no talent pool to join and no form that disappears into a system, because there is no system.

02Fit

Who tends to do well here

Written for the day a role does open, and honest about who would find this uncomfortable.
  • 01

    Builders first

    People who would rather ship a working thing this week than produce a document about shipping it next quarter.

  • 02

    Comfortable in regulated work

    Government and defense programs come with constraints. The people who enjoy this work treat those constraints as part of the design problem.

  • 03

    Technically curious

    The stack changes. What holds is the habit of reading the documentation, understanding the system underneath, and being skeptical of tools that promise to remove the thinking.

  • 04

    Able to work small

    In a team this size there is nowhere to hide and no one to hand a problem to. That suits some people enormously and others not at all.

  • 05

    Direct

    We would rather hear that an estimate is wrong on day three than on day thirty. Saying so is treated as good judgement, not bad news.