Careers
We hire people who would rather build than pitch.
Small remote team, privacy hardware and the software around it. Every role below carries its salary band and its interview steps, because you should not have to ask to find out.
Open roles
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Firmware engineer
Own the firmware on Spark: the display pipeline, the DNS observer, and the provisioning flow that binds a device to a household with no cloud account in the middle. MicroPython, tight C, and hardware you cannot easily reach are all useful here.
Full time Apply -
Privacy researcher
Design and run the measurement studies published on our research page. You would own the methodology, the apparatus and the write-up, including the parts that did not work. Prior work in measurement or network security expected.
Full time Apply -
Product designer
Design for people who are already suspicious of the software asking for permissions. The bar is legible defaults, no dark patterns, and an explanation for every state the device can be in.
Full time Apply -
Backend engineer
Build the provisioning service, the order pipeline and the public status page. A deliberately dull stack: we would rather spend the complexity budget on the device than on the server beside it.
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Technical writer
Write the documentation that ships with the device and the teardowns that ship after it. Someone who can explain ECDSA identity provisioning to a cautious non-engineer without dropping the part that matters.
Part time Apply
How hiring works here
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You write
One email, whatever the role. No cover letter, no application portal, no login.
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We reply
Within a week, yes or no. A no still gets a reason you can act on.
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You talk
One call about the work and how you would approach it. No whiteboard puzzles.
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We try it out
Paid, scoped, and yours to keep. Timeboxed to a week and never used as a test of loyalty.
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Offer or no
In writing, with the band named in full before you are asked to decide anything.
Nothing that fits?
Send it anyway. Tell us what you want to work on and what you have already built, and we will say honestly whether there is a role here for you.
Send an open application