Cure, a company backed by venture studio Montauk Capital, is looking for a founding CTO and co-founder to build an AI-native customer engagement and recovery platform for regulated industries. The product uses conversational agents that understand each account's full context and move consumers toward resolution, combining conversational AI, behavioral economics, decision science, and real-time signals rather than relying on scripted chatbots or legacy collections software. The role is US-based and remote. You'd architect the platform from the ground up, making foundational decisions on models, agent architecture, data, orchestration, APIs, infrastructure, and enterprise integrations while staying hands-on in the product. That includes building agents that negotiate within policy and act through enterprise systems, a decisioning engine that picks the right message, channel, and timing for each consumer, and a rigorous evaluation layer with data pipelines, feedback loops, observability, guardrails, and human review. You'd also work directly with design partners, deliver the security, auditability, and explainability regulated customers require, and recruit the founding engineering team. They want production experience with conversational AI and agentic systems where the agents complete real enterprise workflows, plus genuine depth in machine learning and decision science across personalization, ranking, experimentation, optimization, and predictive modeling. Equally important is applied AI judgment: knowing where models should reason, where deterministic systems should govern, and where humans stay in the loop. You'll need experience integrating into messy enterprise data and workflow environments and building systems those customers can trust, along with zero-to-one leadership, moving from ambiguity to architecture to shipped product. They state clearly that direct collections-industry experience isn't required, which widens the field considerably. As with the other co-founder posts on the board, the compensation here is equity and studio backing rather than a stated salary, so only move on it if you can absorb that risk. What makes this one more concrete than most is the committed capital and company-building support from Montauk behind it. If you apply, lead with a production agent system you shipped where errors had real consequences, and be specific about your evaluation and guardrail setup, since trust in a regulated context is the whole challenge. Ask early about funding stage, equity, and how many design partners are already signed. Comment below if this fits you, and tag any applied AI engineers in the community thinking about a founding role.

Varsity Spirit, part of Varsity Brands and a 50-year-old company in cheerleading, dance, performing arts, and yearbooks, is hiring an entry-level Software Engineer I. The role is remote but restricted to residents of Indiana, Texas, or Kansas. You'd contribute to a new unified digital platform that replaces the company's fragmented systems with scalable, API-driven services covering everything from product configuration and ordering to delivery and customer engagement. Day to day, that means writing, testing, and debugging code for applications, backend services, and APIs, building features within established architecture standards, taking part in code reviews, troubleshooting issues in lower environments, and working with product and QA teams. The posting frames it as a growth role, with the expectation that you'll gradually move toward owning work independently as you learn the platform. The bar is set for people early in their careers: zero to two years of experience, counting internships, academic projects, or early career roles, plus a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or an equivalent mix of education and experience. Technically, you need to be able to write, test, and debug code in at least one language, with Java preferred, and have a foundational grasp of RESTful APIs, SQL and data handling, and Git-based version control. They also want solid fundamentals in object-oriented programming and data structures, basic understanding of APIs, databases, and application architecture, and the judgment to know when to solve a problem yourself and when to escalate. Benefits include health coverage with HSA contributions, a matched 401(k), generous paid time off, an employee ownership program, and product discounts. If you're in Indiana, Texas, or Kansas and finishing a CS degree or a bootcamp, this is a real entry point with a company that plans to train you. The location restriction thins the competition considerably, so don't skip it if you qualify. In your application, show one project where you built or consumed a REST API and worked with a database, and mention Java specifically if you've used it. Clean Git history and a willingness to act on code review feedback are worth calling out too, since both appear in how they measure success. Comment below if you're applying, and tag anyone in the community job hunting in those states.