This week brings a mix of frontier AI ambition and practical infrastructure wins. We’re seeing serious capital flowing into visual intelligence and low‑latency coding environments, while on the product side teams are solving real pain points around real‑time data pipelines and agent evaluation. Many of these companies are actively hiring. If you’re looking to join a team working on hard technical problems with real traction, this is a strong issue to explore ⬇️
⚒️ DevTools Job Opportunities of the Week
Engineering Manager | Remote, USA | Base up to $240k + Equity
Join and lead a team at a high-growth security startup whose open-source tools are already essential safeguards for major tech giants. You’ll lead engineers building customer-facing integrations that help security teams prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities at scale, bridging the gap between developers and security. Ideal for leaders with 3+ years of management experience, a background in product engineering (not just internal tools), and a passion for developer experience.
Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
Senior Sales Engineer | Remote / Hybrid, New York or New Jersey | Base $168-175k + equity
Opportunity to join a mission-driven security company redefining static analysis, helping developers everywhere build more secure applications. You’ll act as the technical expert for customers, integrating security platforms into their SDLC, driving value through automation, and influencing the product roadmap. Ideal for engineers with 8+ years in pre-sales or customer success, deep knowledge of CI/CD environments, and a knack for solving technical challenges.
Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
Senior Staff Engineer | Remote, East Coast USA or Europe | Base up to $400k
Opportunity to join a frontier AI lab training some of the best foundational models for source code generation, with access to thousands of GPUs to test and ship your work. You’ll work on fault‑tolerant distributed training and inference for LLMs: cross‑platform checkpointing, NCCL recovery, hardware fault detection, and performance of large‑scale jobs. Ideal for exceptional systems engineers with deep PyTorch, NVIDIA GPU, Python/C++ and CUDA experience, strong Linux internals (incl. kernel), and a track record building reliable distributed systems in K8s.
Contact: Louise Ogilvy | +1 917 924 5437 | louise@develocity.io
🏆 Funding Wins
Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B
Black Forest Labs raised a $300 million Series B at a $3.25 billion post‑money valuation, co‑led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP). The company builds FLUX, frontier “pixels” models used by millions and integrated into platforms like Fal.ai and Replicate. It aims to unify visual perception, generation, memory, and reasoning into production‑ready visual intelligence. Read the announcement here.
Minitap raises $4.1M seed after beating DeepMind benchmark
minitap raised a $4.1 million seed round co‑led by Moxxie Ventures and Mercuri. Founded by Nicolas Dehandschoewercker and Luc Mahoux-Nakamura, the startup builds a mobile agent that operates Android apps more reliably than state‑of‑the‑art systems on DeepMind’s AndroidWorld benchmark, targeting agents that verify full user flows. Read more.
Numerata raises seed to ship low‑latency enterprise AI IDE
We are building a computation as an extension of thought – Kevin Wang (Founder of Numerata)
Jane Street led a seed (amount not disclosed) round in Numerata, with participation from CoreWeave Ventures. Numerata’s NinetyFive is an AI‑powered coding environment providing ultra low‑latency autocomplete and custom model training on private codebases, including on‑prem. It targets teams needing AI suggestions deeply tuned to internal systems while retaining full control.
🚀 Other DevTools News
Supabase ETL brings real‑time CDC into Postgres workflows
Supabase launched ETL, a change‑data‑capture pipeline streaming Postgres changes to external analytical systems like Analytics Buckets (Iceberg) and BigQuery. It uses logical replication for near real‑time capture, configured from the Supabase dashboard. This keeps OLTP Postgres lean while offloading heavy analytical queries. Check it out here.
nao Labs debuts AI data IDE with full‑stack context
Founded by Christophe Blefari and Claire Gouze, nao Labs (YC X25) launched nao, an AI data IDE built on a VS Code fork, for SQL, Python, and dbt workflows. It connects directly to your warehouse, understanding schemas, metadata, and business definitions, running locally. Data teams can generate pipelines, quality checks, and analyses from a single interface. Get the lowdown here.
Vibrant Labs launches with $2.5M to build agent evaluation environments
Vibrant Labs, backed by a $2.5m pre‑seed round, is launching to benchmark and build environments for AI agents, starting with web and computer‑use agents. Founded by Shahul Elavakkattil Shereef and Jithin James, the team is turning their Ragas experience into reusable scenarios that test how agents navigate browsers and desktops. It targets teams training RL and RLVR‑style systems needing rigorous, automated evals.
Got launch news or funding to share? Send it to Natalie Harper.
Want more details on the opportunities here or want to register your resume with us, reach out to Becca Combe MIRP CertRP and Louise Ogilvy directly.
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