Cracked Engineers — a new tech jobs hiring platform!

Aleksa Gordić
4 min readOct 30, 2024

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Update: Cracked Engineers has been sunset as of December 2nd, unfortunately not enough interest. Feel free to ignore this post. :)

Super excited to share this: I’ve just launched a new job platform for technical roles called “Cracked Engineers”! LinkedIn, Twitter)

If you want to land a job with some of the world’s best AI/tech startups — my goal is to make this the go-to place for you!

Here it is: https://www.crackedengineers.com/

And here is a YouTube walk-through of the platform:

Some of the best AI startups (rising stars & established ones) already posted their jobs posts! A huge thank you to:

  • Weaviate (Bob van Luijt & team, best OSS vector DB!)
  • Unsloth AI (Daniel Han & Mike, one of the hottest YC startups)
  • OpenPipe (David Corbitt, amazing fine-tuning engine)
  • Julius AI (Rahul Sonwalkar, over 1M users!)
  • Jimini AI (Luis F Voloch, ex co-founder of immunai (unicorn))

for using the platform while still in beta and posting first paid posts!

As of yesterday there are now 774 people who signed up for the newsletter!

And first feedback seems to be great!

From Vitalii Duk CEO of Dynamiq (with his permission)
Vitalii Duk
Mike Han from Unsloth AI!

Well, these are good problems to have! :)

And talking about the newsletter — I’m also announcing a weekly tech jobs newsletter that will be sent directly to your email inbox every Thursday! The best thing is you can subscribe on your dashboard (once you login via GitHub) only to job post tags you care about!

e.g. “CUDA”, “Triton”, “MLOps”, “Software Engineering”, “LLMs”, etc.

On the flip side — for companies that want to share a job post: i’ll be sending you weekly updates on the number of views/applicants, etc. to help you hire the most cracked engineering talent!

It’s also super simple to post a job: AI helps you fill up the whole form in a minute and you’re ready to post! AI also helps you review your job post and catch occasional typos, etc. You also have a job post preview before you hit that submit button, so you know exactly what you get before you pay.

if you need any help please dm me (see my social at the bottom of this post), or email me and I’ll make sure to help you asap. Also, if you have any feedback I’d love to hear from you!

This is a great place to provide deeper feedback: https://crackedengineers.canny.io/cracked-engineers

Or join my Discord channel: https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE

I will be sharing job posts there directly from the platform, and we have a #crackedengineers channel for any feedback, help needed, etc.

Quick note on platform’s design/style/vibes: I wanted to make it the least corporate as much as possible. This should be a place where best tech startups hire the best tech talent. Period.

Some loved the meme aesthetics others hated it :’D Reddit users in particular didn’t like it

Why did I build it?

Well, over the past period a lot of fellow founders were asking me to help them with hiring ML/tech talent. Since I have access to pools of extremely talented engineers and researchers I managed to help some of them, but it really doesn’t scale, so I wanted to automate as much as possible.

Last but not least I also want to thank Jina AI (Han Xiao), SmartCat (Nenad Bozic), Luminai (Harsh Gupta), Nous Research (Karan), in no particular order, and many friends who helped test the platform while in alpha/beta stage — thank you! I learned a lot, and you made the platform so much better!

Onto $10k MRR! :)

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