Startups hiring: 9 October 2026

WriteWise is going after one of healthcare's least transparent corners: pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen between insurers, employers and drugstores. Its MavRx platform combines actuarial science, machine learning and PBM expertise to hold PBMs accountable to the clients and members they serve. The New York team of under ten is hiring a Software / AI / Python Engineer for its PBM audit work.

Generative AI has made fake insurance claim photos easy to produce, and VAARHAFT builds the tool that catches them. Its Fraud Scanner API checks images, videos and documents for deepfakes and manipulation. It's hosted in Germany, and it won the Northern German AI Future Prize. The Hamburg team of under ten is hiring a full-time Backend Developer.

Vanamonde is a small US team working on AI-enhanced autonomous worlds, and it's looking for a Founding Engineer to build them from the ground up.

FindiFox is a British team building Spark One, a small, child-friendly wearable that helps parents find their child in seconds, even where GPS struggles. The project is backed by a £522k grant from Innovate UK, and the team of under ten is hiring a Senior Software Engineer.

Cota's robots already work inside stores in Sweden and Finland, doing restocking, inbound and picking around the clock. Retailers rent them as a service instead of buying hardware. The Stockholm team, backed by byFounders, wants a Founding Hardware Engineer.

SafeAD builds perception and behaviour-prediction software for automated driving. Its model reads road layout and every traffic participant straight from the car's sensors, without relying on HD maps, and it works with setups from camera-only to full camera, radar and lidar. The Karlsruhe team is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer.

Alignerr is the expert network behind Labelbox. It's a community of specialists across more than 50 fields who create the high-quality training and evaluation data that generative AI models are aligned on. With the network now past a million experts, the Seattle team is hiring a Frontend TypeScript Developer, a Machine Learning Engineer and a Senior Machine Learning Engineer.

Chipiron wants an MRI scan to be as routine as a blood test. The Paris team, founded out of Entrepreneur First at Station F, is building a compact scanner that runs at a magnetic field hundreds of times weaker than hospital machines, so it doesn't need a shielded room or liquid helium. It starts with breast imaging and keeps an always-open Software Engineer role.

Ocushield started with medically rated blue-light screen protectors and has grown into eye health more broadly. That now includes an online eye test that checks astigmatism, colour vision and visual field from a laptop or phone in under seven minutes, offered through benefit providers such as Benenden Health. It's hiring a Senior Founding Software Engineer in Poland.

MeeBoss treats hiring as a conversation. Its app matches job seekers and employers on skills, culture fit and goals, then opens a direct chat between them, and it runs in-person hiring festivals too. The team, founded in 2024 and based near Seattle, is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer and a Software Engineer.

Solve Intelligence builds AI that helps patent attorneys draft applications and handle patent office correspondence. Firms like DLA Piper and in-house teams at Siemens use it. After a $40M Series B and a tenfold jump in revenue, the London team is hiring a front-end-leaning Full-Stack Engineer.

Selling a used fire truck used to take months. Garage, a Y Combinator company, makes it a matter of minutes, with AI appraisals and one place to handle payment, paperwork, freight, warranty and financing for fire departments, cities and small businesses in all 50 states. The New York team is hiring a Founding Design Engineer.

noventive makes the software and services that patent attorneys and companies in Munich and beyond use to register and manage their intellectual property. It's hiring a Backend Engineer.

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Recourse AI is building a "flight simulator" for healthcare staff. Clinicians practise consultations by voice with AI patients and get instant feedback on their reasoning. It was founded by an NHS clinical entrepreneur and backed by Northern Gritstone and Par Equity, and the Manchester team is hiring a mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer.

Azodha builds the software behind hospital-at-home and virtual care: remote patient monitoring, virtual visits, scheduling, patient apps and dispatch for home visits, with generative AI built in. It's hiring a Senior Backend Engineer on contract in the US.

Open Code Mission is building an AI governance and audit platform that helps organisations keep their AI accountable. The team, across Ireland and the UK, is hiring a Full Stack Developer working across Python, AI/ML and databases.