We're a fast-moving studio building several SaaS products. The first — closest to launch — is a tool for churches and pastors. A lot of our app is built fast with AI-assisted workflows, which makes it functional but generic-looking. Your job is to give it taste: establish a clean, reusable design system and redesign our core screens so the product feels premium, trustworthy, and genuinely beautiful — then hand polished, dev-ready designs to our developers to build. This starts as a focused contract project — a design system + a redesign of our launch product's key screens — with strong potential to continue ongoing as we add more products. What you'll do Audit our current screens and redesign them into something clean, modern, and premium Build a reusable design system (components, color, typography, spacing, patterns) that our developers build within — so quality stays high without you touching every screen Design user flows and mockups for new features — improve usability, not just looks Hand off dev-ready designs in Figma (organized, spec'd, with all states) that our developers + AI build from accurately Review the built screens against your designs and polish the flows that matter most Bring brand sensibility — for our faith product that means calm, warm, reverent, and trustworthy, not flashy Our setup Our developers build in Next.js + React + Tailwind CSS (often with shadcn/ui). Designs that map cleanly to that world — and a smooth Figma → code handoff — make everyone faster. You don't need to write code, but understanding how design becomes front-end is a real plus. You're a great fit if you Have a portfolio of real SaaS / web-app product design (not just landing pages or logos) Have built or worked within a design system Have strong taste and restraint — you make things beautiful without over-designing Think about user flows and usability, not only visuals Communicate clearly and work independently Can overlap a few hours with US time zones Nice to have Can do light front-end yourself (a "design engineer" who designs and builds in React/Tailwind) Experience designing for faith, community, or trust-sensitive products Comfortable designing within / extending shadcn/ui + Tailwind To apply — answer these (applications without answers are skipped) Share 1–2 SaaS or web-app products you designed. What was the before/after, and what problem were you solving (not just "made it prettier")? Have you built or worked within a design system? Briefly, how? How do you hand designs to developers so they build them accurately? Your part-time weekly availability and US time-zone overlap. Shortlist step (paid) A short paid trial: we'll give you one real screen from our app and ask you to redesign it plus a few sentences on your reasoning. We hire from the trial, not the résumé.

We're rebuilding the content engine for California Fastener, a precision industrial fastener distributor and CNC machining shop based in California. The new site is a WIP and lives at cafastdotcom2026-2.vercel.app — read it before you apply. The voice and standard are there. What we're producing: Blog posts ("Field Notes") — Practical, spec-level articles written for structural engineers, procurement managers, and project engineers. Examples already on the site: F1554 Grade 36 vs 55 vs 105, Field-cut vs shop-cut threaded rod. These are short, dense, and useful. No padding. Thought leadership: First-person POV pieces that take a position on something in the industry — supply chain, material selection philosophy, what distributors get wrong, how specifications evolve. These require genuine expertise and a willingness to say something definitive. Spec library expansions — plain-English breakdowns of ASTM, SAE, ASME, ISO, and DIN standards that are accurate enough for engineers but accessible enough for buyers Industry and product page copy — tight, confident, zero marketing-speak Who we're looking for: You have a background in mechanical or structural engineering, materials science, construction, oil & gas, or a related field — and you can write. Not the other way around. We can teach the brand voice; we can't teach someone to understand the difference between the A325 and the A490, or why the B7 outperforms Grade 8 at high temperatures. Strong candidates will have: experience writing for a technical B2B audience, familiarity with ASTM/ASME/SAE standards, and a portfolio that shows they can make complex material clear without dumbing it down. What this is not: This is not SEO content farming. We are not publishing 2,000-word articles stuffed with keywords. Every piece we publish needs to earn its place by being genuinely useful to an engineer or buyer making a real decision. Engagement: Starting with a paid test article. Strong fits will move into ongoing work on a per-piece or retainer basis. To apply: Share relevant writing samples — technical articles, white papers, spec sheets, or engineering documentation. Tell us briefly about your technical background. Applications without samples will not be considered.

Senior React Native Engineer — Take Over & Launch a Consumer Social App We're looking for a senior React Native engineer to take ownership of an existing, fully-built consumer social media app and get it to App Store launch quality. The app already works. A previous developer built it end to end, and we have a complete, functioning codebase. What we need now is an experienced engineer to take the wheel, harden it, and ship it: tighten the design, fix the speed, clean up the backend, eliminate bugs, and make every feature work exactly as intended. This is a polish-and-launch role, not a build-from-scratch role, so we want someone genuinely strong at improving an existing codebase rather than rewriting it. This is a video-first social product — an infinite media feed, video upload and playback, user profiles, direct messaging, notifications, and engagement/retention mechanics. Think of the surface area of a modern social app, and our bar is that it should feel as smooth and fast as the top social apps on the store. Right now it's close, and we need someone to take it the last mile. What you'll own Performance & smoothness — profile and fix slow screens, janky scrolling, slow cold starts, memory issues, and re-render problems. Feed and video playback in particular must be flawless. Design polish — tighten spacing, animations, transitions, and component consistency so the UI looks and feels professionally finished. Backend cleanup — review and improve the backend: data models, queries, API/edge functions, security rules, storage, and the media pipeline. Efficient, reliable, and ready for real users. Bug elimination — hunt down and fix every bug; deliver a stable, well-tested app. Feature completeness — make sure all existing features work as envisioned, end to end, with proper edge-case and error handling. App Store launch — get it through Apple App Store review: build config, signing, App Store Connect, privacy/permissions, store technical requirements. (Android is a likely follow-on.) The stack you'll be working in Frontend: Expo + React Native + TypeScript, Expo Router (Reanimated and EAS Build/Submit a plus) Backend: a managed cloud backend with Postgres, authentication, file/object storage, realtime subscriptions, and row-level security (BaaS-style; comfortable with SQL, policies, and serverless/edge functions) Video: a managed video pipeline for direct uploads, transcoding, and adaptive HLS streaming, plus object storage and CDN delivery Notifications: push notifications (OneSignal or similar) Payments: Stripe integration experience is a plus Native device APIs: comfort with camera, media library, background tasks, location, and notifications; able to write/maintain native modules when needed Tooling: Git, EAS, environment management, basic CI/CD, crash/error monitoring (e.g., Sentry) Must-haves 4+ years building production React Native apps, with shipped App Store apps you can show us Deep, demonstrable experience profiling and optimizing React Native performance (list/image/video tuning, memoization, startup and bundle optimization) Strong with a Postgres / BaaS-style backend (schema design, SQL, security rules, serverless functions) Real experience with video upload and playback Have taken an app through Apple App Store review to a live release Excellent written English, proactive communication, and comfort owning a codebase someone else wrote Nice-to-haves Realtime/social feed and messaging at scale, Reanimated/gesture-heavy UI, Stripe or marketplace payment flows, crash analytics and feature flags, and prior experience launching a consumer/social app. How we work Small, fast-moving founding team with direct access to the founder and quick decisions. We'll start with a short paid trial task so we can both confirm fit before committing to ongoing work; strong performers move into an ongoing, long-term engagement. Some overlap with US Central time is required. An NDA is required before code access. To apply, please include: Links to 1–3 App Store apps you've built and your exact role on each A time you made an existing React Native app dramatically faster or smoother — what was slow, what you did, and the measured result Your experience with video upload/playback and with a Postgres/BaaS backend Your weekly availability and your US-Central overlap Start your reply with the word "SMOOTH" so we know you read this. Generic proposals will be ignored.

Azierta LLC is a U.S.-based engineering and infrastructure technical consultancy firm managing multi-state project pipelines and public works contracts. As we scale our active infrastructure operations, we are strategically building an elite network of Licensed Professional Engineers (P.E.) across multiple civil engineering sub-disciplines for ongoing and upcoming project assignments. We are seeking highly autonomous, senior-level engineers who can collaborate with us as independent subcontractors (1099 consultants) on a completely remote, flexible basis. No relocation is required. Core Sourcing Disciplines & Specialties: We are open to reviewing qualified P.E. profiles across all civil infrastructure sectors, with particular emphasis on: Traffic & Transportation Engineering: Highway capacity operational modeling, traffic impact assessments (TIA), network simulation, and corridor optimization (Synchro, VISSIM, HCS). Water Resources Engineering: Hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) modeling, drainage design, stormwater management, and environmental compliance logs. Structural & Bridge Engineering: Comprehensive design reviews, structural calculations, and construction document production for bridges and highway infrastructure. Geotechnical Engineering: Foundation analysis, slope stability evaluation, soil mechanics reports, and technical site logs. Marine & Coastal Engineering: Ports, waterfront infrastructure, and coastal protection structures design. Key Responsibilities: Technical Quality Oversight (QA/QC): Perform meticulous peer reviews of engineering drawings, geometric layouts, computations, and design sheets. Review, Sign, and Seal: Act as the engineer of record on a project basis by legally signing and sealing final permit packages and construction documents ensuring full structural alignment with federal, local, and state DOT standards. Asynchronous Alignment: Participate in fast-paced alignment syncs and update milestone progress within our remote project tracking environments. Job Requirements: License Matrix (Mandatory): Must hold an active Professional Engineer (P.E.) License in good standing issued by a U.S. State Board. (Special priority for licenses in Louisiana, Maryland, and Washington D.C., but all active U.S. state licenses are highly valued). Experience Benchmark: Minimum of 10 years of active, hands-on experience within the U.S. infrastructure and civil engineering sectors. Autonomy: High responsiveness and availability to handle strict technical milestones on an on-demand basis. Compensation & Contract Structure: Project-Based Hourly Rate: This engagement operates under a pay-per-hour framework based on specific project hours and deliverables. We do not offer a fixed annual salary. Flexible Rate: There is no pre-established minimum or maximum rate. Hourly compensation is dynamic and will be negotiated per project based on task complexity, project budget, and individual P.E. qualifications

Forum Intelligence: Project Brief & Initial Rollout 1. Executive Summary & Objective Forum Intelligence is a beginning as a localized data retrieval, processing, and archiving system designed to scrape public municipal records and state legislative data for public oversight. The immediate objective is to build a functional, highly resilient prototype focused on the Tri-Cities region (Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena, California). The system will autonomously ingest messy, unstructured municipal data (City Council meeting minutes, agendas, public notices, and legislative PDF text, recorded mp4), clean it, and make it fully searchable and queryable via a localized AI agentic framework. 2. Phase 1 Scope: The Tri-Cities Rollout Th engineer will be responsible for building two primary pillars: A. Resilient Scraper Bots • Target Ingestion: Monitor and pull data from Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena municipal portals and California legislative feeds. • Data Types: Brittle HTML sites, heavily nested tables, public notices, legislative drafts, and massive unstructured PDF archives. • Requirements: The scraping architecture must be exceptionally robust, utilizing intelligent error handling, retry semantics, and pagination tracking to handle frequent municipal website layout changes without breaking the pipeline. B. Ingestion & Vector Pipeline • Parsing: Extracting clean text from poorly formatted documents and scanned PDFs. • Local RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Chunking and embedding the data locally into a vector database (e.g., pgvector, Chroma, or Milvus) to enable semantically accurate entity linking and contextual search. 3. Targeted Hardware Stack To ensure maximum data security, strict public oversight integrity, and predictable operational costs, Forum Intelligence is skipping commercial cloud APIs in favor of an on-premise, localized NVIDIA enterprise deployment. The production roadmap aligns precisely with the new computing patterns detailed in NVIDIA’s latest hardware roadmap: • Inference & Token Generation: Running local open-weight frontier models (e.g., Neotron 3 Ultra or Claude/Llama equivalents) optimized for reasoning and long-context tool use. • Compute & Orchestration: The backend infrastructure is architected around NVIDIA’s dedicated agentic architecture, utilizing high-instructions-per-clock (IPC) Vera CPUs paired with Vera Rubin GPUs. • Memory & Storage Processing: Utilizing NVIDIA’s unified memory fabric and data processing units (DPUs) for ultra-low latency context management, KV caching, and fast vector database retrieval. 4. Immediate Milestones for the Engineer 1. Architecture Design: Map out the database schema and local inference ingestion loop. 2. Tri-Cities Scraper Deployment: Write and deploy the initial automated bots for Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena. 3. Local MVP Pipeline: Demonstrate a local RAG pipeline where a user can query the Tri-Cities scraped records and receive grounded answers with exact source attributions. The above was AI generated from months long conversations with Gemini. The goal is to prove the concept then roll out to LA County, state of CA, and then the country.

Project Overview I am developing two original hardware products and am looking for an experienced electronics technician or embedded systems engineer to assist with prototype assembly and testing. The electronic components have already been selected. I need someone experienced with ESP32 development, soldering, prototyping, and wiring to help assemble and validate working prototypes. Project 1 – Birdie Prototype assembly for a smart golf grip. Current components include: ESP32-C3 (Beetle) BNO085/BNO080 IMU OLED Display LiPo Battery USB-C charging Haptic motor Force sensors (later revision) Flexible PCB (future) Initial goal: Build a clean, working prototype with reliable wiring and proper soldering. Project 2 – Control Module Build an electronics control module for an interactive electronic dart game. Components include: ESP32 Phoenix connector Status LEDs Perfboard Waterproof enclosure USB programming Power distribution The BCM will eventually communicate with: Electronic dartboard LCD display Mobile application Wi-Fi/Bluetooth The first version is simply a clean working controller. Required Skills Must have experience with: ESP32 ESP32-C3 Arduino IDE Embedded electronics Through-hole soldering Perfboard construction Header installation Breadboard prototyping Debugging wiring I2C devices SPI devices OLED displays IMU sensors USB power LiPo batteries Multimeter troubleshooting Bonus experience: Golf electronics Wearables IoT devices Bluetooth Low Energy Product prototyping Small enclosure design 3D printing What I Need For each project I'd like assistance with: Installing headers Soldering components Wiring modules Verifying pin assignments Testing power Testing communication Troubleshooting Organizing wiring neatly Documenting final wiring If everything goes well, I'd like all wiring documented so I can duplicate future units myself. Deliverables For each prototype: ✔ Clean solder joints ✔ Proper wire management ✔ Tested operation ✔ Pin assignment documentation ✔ Wiring diagram ✔ Photos of completed build ✔ Short explanation of the design Successful candidates will receive additional work involving: PCB design Flexible PCB development Golf electronics Embedded firmware Electronic gaming hardware Product refinement Manufacturing preparation This is the beginning of multiple hardware products rather than a one-time repair job. Ideal Candidate I'm looking for someone who enjoys building prototypes and solving problems—not someone who simply follows instructions. The ideal candidate has built ESP32-based products before and can recommend improvements while maintaining a clean, professional build. Communication is important. I'm looking for someone who explains why they're making recommendations rather than simply assembling components. Screening Questions Please answer the following: How many ESP32-based prototypes have you built? Have you worked with ESP32-C3 or Beetle boards? Have you soldered headers and built perfboard prototypes? Have you worked with OLED displays over I2C? Have you worked with BNO080/BNO085 IMUs? Can you document wiring diagrams for future production? Approximately how many hours do you estimate to complete both prototypes? Please provide photos or links to similar embedded hardware projects you've completed.

**** Agencies are welcome to apply, but put your GenAI solutions architect on the very first interview call. Not a salesperson who then hands off **** We are an AWS partner company focussed solely on Data & AI implementation work. We are specifically looking for a GenAI Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales engagements with customers. Typical duties include: 1/ Executing pre-sales discovery calls with customers 2/ Demoing our proprietary production GenAI demo environments and mapping customer use-cases 3/ Performing deep GenAI assessments and helping provide roadmap for implementation and planning 4/ Compile Statement of Work for customer projects We have a number of tools that will assist in this process to ensure compliance with our patterns and standards. The ideal candidate should have at least 3 yrs of hands on GenAI implementations, understanding of RAG, MCP, bedrock, agentcore experience, strands/langchain experience, and the ability to clearly understand business needs and articulate/map out to technical implementations. Our interview process is unique since this is a LONG running engagement: Step 1: Interview with a technical executive Step 2: Interview with a Sr. technical engineer Step 3: After NDA is signed, train on one of our IP environment (5 hr commitment from your side, but likely faster if you are already familiar with GenAI & AWS) Step 4: Present to a panel on the concept. This is where we evaluate your ability to present what you have learned and earn trust, similar to how you would be doing customer facing.

We manufacture a wireless consumer therapy device — a handheld remote control that wirelessly operates two receiver units ("pods"). We need a licensed Professional Engineer with strong embedded-RF expertise to independently test, characterize, and document how the remote communicates with and selects between the pods, and to deliver a signed/stamped engineering report of the findings. This is an independent verification engagement. We have an internal understanding of how the system works, but we need it rigorously and impartially confirmed and documented to professional standards. We are looking for objective findings — we need the truth of how the device behaves, documented in a way that stands on its own. What we need verified The central technical question is how the system selects which pod acts on a given command. Specifically, we need you to determine and document whether: the remote transmits to each pod on its own dedicated RF frequency/channel; or the remote broadcasts over a shared, frequency-hopping link to all pods simultaneously, and each pod independently decides whether to act based on a device identifier (UID) contained in the data packet — i.e., selection occurs at the receiver, by address, not by frequency. We need the actual mechanism established with evidence, not assumed. Scope of work Identify the RF transceiver and microcontroller on the device and the protocol/architecture in use. Characterize the over-the-air RF behavior (center frequencies, channel usage, and whether/how the link frequency-hops) using appropriate instrumentation (e.g., SDR, spectrum analysis). Probe and document the control-level behavior — e.g., capturing the SPI bus between the MCU and the RF transceiver — to determine what the device does when a specific pod is selected (which registers are written: frequency/channel vs. address/UID). Determine how pods are distinguished from one another (frequency assignment vs. UID/address filtering at the receiver) and capture supporting evidence (frame/packet structure, transmit/receive logs across multiple sessions, with one pod active, then both). Establish whether the hopping sequence (if any) is shared across all pods or assigned per pod. Tie all findings to the specific production firmware version in the units tested, and document that version. Produce a clear, well-documented engineering report — methodology, equipment, settings, procedures, captures, and conclusions — signed and PE-stamped. Required qualifications Active US Professional Engineer (PE) license in Electrical Engineering (in good standing) — please state your license state(s) and number. A current stamp is mandatory; this is a hard requirement. Hands-on experience with embedded RF and proprietary (non-Bluetooth) wireless protocols — sub-GHz / 2.4 GHz transceivers, register-level configuration, frequency-hopping schemes. Experience with SDR capture (e.g., HackRF, USRP, BladeRF) and logic-analyzer / SPI bus probing (e.g., Saleae) for embedded systems. Ability to read a transceiver datasheet/register map and interpret device behavior from it. Experience producing formal, stamped engineering reports relied upon by third parties — clear, defensible, and standalone. Nice to have Prior reverse-engineering or protocol-characterization work on wireless consumer or medical devices. Experience working with overseas manufacturers, including reviewing materials under NDA. Deliverable A signed, PE-stamped engineering report documenting the methodology, evidence, and conclusions regarding the device's communication and pod-selection mechanism, tied to a specific production firmware version. Raw capture files and supporting data to accompany the report. To apply, please answer: Are you an actively licensed US PE in Electrical Engineering? State(s) and license number. Briefly describe your experience with embedded RF / proprietary wireless protocols and the instrumentation you'd use here. How would you determine whether a device assigns a dedicated frequency per receiver versus broadcasting on a shared hopping link and selecting by UID at the receiver? What's your approach and equipment? Have you produced stamped engineering reports that other parties relied on? Briefly describe. Estimated timeline and your rate structure.

What this is: I'm the founder of a working AI SaaS platform (FastAPI/uvicorn backend, React/Vite frontend, deployed on AWS). The product pipeline is built and live! I need an experienced engineer to build the authentication, payments, and usage-entitlement layer that gates the product behind login and paid usage. You'll work against a runnable stub repository (real routes + data shapes, proprietary internals removed) - so you can build and test the full layer without ever touching the core IP, and afterwards - I will merge your work into the production app! Scope: • Auth (Clerk): signup/login, session lifecycle, backend session/JWT verification, inject a validated `user_id` into protected endpoints. • Payments (Stripe): Checkout for purchasing usage credits, plus a webhook that credits the user's ledger on successful payment. The webhook MUST be signature-verified, idempotent (Stripe retries-credit exactly once), and reconcilable (handle webhook-failed-but-payment-succeeded). • Entitlement ledger (the core): a credit balance per user with atomic check-and-decrement (two concurrent requests must never double-spend) on PostgreSQL. A `check_entitlement(user_id, ...)`gate that expensive endpoints call before doing paid work. • Server-side route gating: enforce entitlement on every paid endpoint (not just hidden in the UI); clean 401/402/403 responses. • Frontend integration (React): login/signup UI, buy-credits/checkout flow, balance display,graceful "out of credits" states, wired to the above. • Tests for the money-critical paths (webhook idempotency, atomic decrement, gating-bypass attempts). Stack you'll work with: Python 3.11, FastAPI, Pydantic, uvicorn (Linux). React + Vite, Tailwind. PostgreSQL. Clerk. Stripe. Who I'm looking for: Someone who has shipped this exact kind of system to production before. In your proposal, briefly tell me: 1. How you ensure Stripe webhook idempotency and handle reconciliation when a webhook fails but payment succeeded. 2. How you'd implement the atomic credit check-and-decrement so concurrent requests couldn't double-spend. 3. A relevant production system you've built (Stripe + auth + usage metering ideally). *I'd much rather a short, specific proposal - than a long generic one!* Working with me: I'm an engaged founder who genuinely enjoys building, and I want this to be a good experience for both of us! I'm responsive, communicate clearly, and I respect your expertise - because you're the specialist here,and I'm hiring you because you know this much better than I do! I'm not a micromanager and I'm not nitpicky - I just want the end results to be solid! I review in milestones, asking questions because I like understanding the work (not because I'm second-guessing you), and I make decisions quickly so you're never stuck waiting on me! The scope is already well-defined (detailed spec + a runnable stub repo on engagement), so you're not pricing around a vague, shifting target - it's a clean, bounded build. I care about getting the money-handling pieces right, and I'm betting you do too - if that resonates, I think we'll work well together! IP / engagement: A mutual NDA + IP-assignment (work-for-hire) before repo access. You build against stubs; you won't receive the proprietary pipeline. Work is milestone-based, fixed-bid preferred. To apply: Answer the three questions above + share 1-2 relevant examples, and ballpark your timeline and milestone structure (suggested: auth → payments+webhook → ledger+gating → frontend → tests/docs)!

## Project Overview I am seeking an experienced Senior AI Systems Architect / Full-Stack Engineer to evaluate and potentially lead the technical architecture of a new enterprise software platform currently under development. At this stage, I am not looking for someone to simply write code. I am looking for an experienced technical professional capable of evaluating architecture, recommending technologies, and helping define the engineering roadmap for Version 1. The project involves the integration of artificial intelligence, enterprise software architecture, workflow automation, secure data management, API integrations, and cloud-based application design. Because the project contains proprietary intellectual property, detailed information will not be disclosed during the initial interview process. Candidates selected to move forward will be asked to execute a Non-Disclosure Agreement before reviewing project documentation. ## Initial Objectives • Review the existing project at a high level. • Evaluate technical feasibility. • Recommend the most appropriate technology stack. • Design the production architecture. • Develop an implementation roadmap. • If mutually agreed, continue as the lead software architect for Version 1. ## Required Experience Applicants should have significant experience with: • Enterprise software architecture • Artificial Intelligence integration • API development and integration • Full-stack application development • Cloud architecture and deployment • Database design • Authentication and application security Excellent communication skills are important. I am looking for someone who enjoys solving complex architectural challenges and who is interested in building something from the ground up. ## Please Include 1. A brief summary of your architecture experience. 2. Examples of enterprise software systems you have helped design. 3. AI-related experience. 4. Your preferred technology stack. 5. Why this opportunity interests you. The initial engagement is intended as an architectural evaluation. A longer-term relationship may develop if there is a strong mutual fit.