Stpkr Technologies is hiring for the following roles to build the next generation of wearable devices.
We are currently looking for the following 4 roles but we are also open to interviewing any candidates who feel like they will do their best work here - even if your skillset/experience doesn't fit the current defined roles. Our current team doesn't fit the conventional mold, and we don't expect our future hires will either. If you don't fit the advertised roles, just send us a mail per the same process with whatever job title would fit you the best.
Work is in person near Noida Sector 18, walking distance from Sector 18 Metro Station. We prefer in office work, but we are super flexible overall, it will be hands down one of the best work environments you can get. Pay is competitive, and there are opportunities to earn meaningful equity down the line. We prefer current and recent undergraduates for our roles. If you are still in college we welcome you to apply nonetheless provided you can work as an intern for us in person. Super-flexible overall and all of our current team started out as interns.
Hiring across OS, full-stack, and hardware. AI policy across all roles: you should be able to do the work without AI, and much faster with it.
Android Systems Engineer (AOSP/BSP) - Everything at the OS layer. You've rooted phones, flashed custom ROMs, broken and fixed Linux for fun. Comfortable in C/C++. GitHub with kernel-adjacent or LineageOS-type projects a plus. Stack: Android, Linux, C, C++, Java. _Filter: send us something you built where you had to fight the OS or hardware.
Full-Stack Engineer (Apps + Backend + ML) - Everything at the platform layer. Generalist who ships end-to-end. Skill check: can build a crude-but-working facial recognition system (camera → model → DB → backend). (using existing facial recog models) Bonus for weird/constrained hardware work or running ML on edge devices. Stack: Android, Java, Python, TypeScript. _Filter: send the most useful thing you've built and used (no CRUD slop). Even better if you still use it for yourself.
Hardware Engineer - Bring-up/Debug/Integration - Take EVT/DVT boards and make them work. Comfortable with J-Link and IDE debugging, reading schematics and reference designs. KiCad/Altium/EasyEDA hobby work would make you ideal. PetaLinux experience or hunger to learn it. ECE undergrad fine. _Filter: photo of a board you designed or debugged, plus what went wrong.
Hardware Engineer - Power/RF/Wireless - Make the power and RF paths behave on EVT/DVT boards. Hands-on with schematic capture, layout, soldering, scope/logic analyzer. Given two unknowns, you pick one and start measuring. _Filter: sensor fusion work, how noise behaves across protocols, and SPI debug chops.
Founder's Office - Work closely with the founder and the rest of the team to manage the day to day and long term affairs of the company, the Man Friday of the company. Must have a decent degree of technical knowledge (we are a tech company after all) and be efficient at administrative tasks as well as management. Speed and learning ability are prized here, there will not always be a clear path to the work you have to do here, so you will have to figure some of it out on your own.
To apply, contact arnav@stpkr.in with the subject line "HN - Human" and a brief intro for further communication. Attach any documents you deem useful there. Please include the role you are applying for at the top of the email if it is one of the above mentioned, otherwise whatever role fits you best. Shortlisting will be online, interviews will be in person. We are hiring quickly, expect to hear back from us within 2-3 days of applying. If you don't, assume you will not. Thanks for your time!
To note, this is the largest board of education in India, the most populous country in the world - some 29,000 schools are affiliated to it and millions of students enrolled in a curriculum designed and controlled by the CBSE
I've brought my kindle to even the most strict of technology-banned lectures (with punishments like dropping a letter grade after one violation, and failing you after two), and never have they given me a problem when asked. They realize the issue isn't the silicon or lithium, it's the distractions it enables. I'm sure I could connect to some LLM on it, it's just that no one ever will.
I’ve tried many e-readers since early Kindle but I keep coming back to two fundamental problems with e-ink, both relevant to education.
First, extremely cumbersome and error-prone to type compared to swipe-typing on a soft keyboard. Even highlighting a few sentences can be problematic when spanning across a page boundary.
Second, navigation is also painful compared to a physical book. When reading non-fiction, it’s vital to be able to jump around quickly, backtrack, and cross-reference material. Amazon has done some good work on the UX for this, but nothing is as simple as flipping through a physical book.
Android e-readers are better insofar as open to third-party software, but still have the same hardware shortcomings.
My compromise has been to settle on medium-sized (~Kindle or iPad Mini size) tablets and treat them just as an e-reader. (Similar to the “kale phone” concept ie minimal software installed on it … no distractions.) They are much more responsive, hence fairly easy to navigate and type on.
I was curious about this too and it’s actually a bug— these blue dots are random parks or park features. Most parks are polygons, but less than 5% or them are points from volunteer mappers who didn’t make them polygons and so these stray points seem to slip through and get plotted as the matplotlib default color…
If only I knew this before I printed it out and attached it all together with rasterbator lol
Yes, the blue and orange dots are from the water and parks Nodes and Ways in the OSM data.
It doesn't look like the orange and blue colors are part of the theme definitions, so the rendering library may be using some default values. This is why they are rendered in the same color on images using different theme files.
Stpkr Technologies is hiring for the following roles to build the next generation of wearable devices.
We are currently looking for the following 4 roles but we are also open to interviewing any candidates who feel like they will do their best work here - even if your skillset/experience doesn't fit the current defined roles. Our current team doesn't fit the conventional mold, and we don't expect our future hires will either. If you don't fit the advertised roles, just send us a mail per the same process with whatever job title would fit you the best.
Work is in person near Noida Sector 18, walking distance from Sector 18 Metro Station. We prefer in office work, but we are super flexible overall, it will be hands down one of the best work environments you can get. Pay is competitive, and there are opportunities to earn meaningful equity down the line. We prefer current and recent undergraduates for our roles. If you are still in college we welcome you to apply nonetheless provided you can work as an intern for us in person. Super-flexible overall and all of our current team started out as interns.
Hiring across OS, full-stack, and hardware. AI policy across all roles: you should be able to do the work without AI, and much faster with it.
Android Systems Engineer (AOSP/BSP) - Everything at the OS layer. You've rooted phones, flashed custom ROMs, broken and fixed Linux for fun. Comfortable in C/C++. GitHub with kernel-adjacent or LineageOS-type projects a plus. Stack: Android, Linux, C, C++, Java. _Filter: send us something you built where you had to fight the OS or hardware.
Full-Stack Engineer (Apps + Backend + ML) - Everything at the platform layer. Generalist who ships end-to-end. Skill check: can build a crude-but-working facial recognition system (camera → model → DB → backend). (using existing facial recog models) Bonus for weird/constrained hardware work or running ML on edge devices. Stack: Android, Java, Python, TypeScript. _Filter: send the most useful thing you've built and used (no CRUD slop). Even better if you still use it for yourself.
Hardware Engineer - Bring-up/Debug/Integration - Take EVT/DVT boards and make them work. Comfortable with J-Link and IDE debugging, reading schematics and reference designs. KiCad/Altium/EasyEDA hobby work would make you ideal. PetaLinux experience or hunger to learn it. ECE undergrad fine. _Filter: photo of a board you designed or debugged, plus what went wrong.
Hardware Engineer - Power/RF/Wireless - Make the power and RF paths behave on EVT/DVT boards. Hands-on with schematic capture, layout, soldering, scope/logic analyzer. Given two unknowns, you pick one and start measuring. _Filter: sensor fusion work, how noise behaves across protocols, and SPI debug chops.
Founder's Office - Work closely with the founder and the rest of the team to manage the day to day and long term affairs of the company, the Man Friday of the company. Must have a decent degree of technical knowledge (we are a tech company after all) and be efficient at administrative tasks as well as management. Speed and learning ability are prized here, there will not always be a clear path to the work you have to do here, so you will have to figure some of it out on your own.
To apply, contact arnav@stpkr.in with the subject line "HN - Human" and a brief intro for further communication. Attach any documents you deem useful there. Please include the role you are applying for at the top of the email if it is one of the above mentioned, otherwise whatever role fits you best. Shortlisting will be online, interviews will be in person. We are hiring quickly, expect to hear back from us within 2-3 days of applying. If you don't, assume you will not. Thanks for your time!
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