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The right people don't apply
People we want already have jobs. They don't browse open roles. They don't update LinkedIn. They are the kind of pattern recognizers who, when shown an interesting problem, can't not think about it.
Recruitment is the work
We built two recruitment instruments to surface the engineers, architects, and pattern recognizers we cannot find any other way. They test how you think — not what you've memorized. Score doesn't matter. Signal does.
Why puzzle games
People we want already have jobs. They don't browse open roles. They don't update LinkedIn. They are the kind of pattern recognizers who, when shown an interesting problem, can't not think about it.
Years at FAANG, framework name-drops, certifications. None of it predicts whether you can hold a six-axis mental model of a problem and find the move that resolves all six axes at once. We test that directly.
PULSE rewards architects and mathematicians — outside-in pattern decomposition. Prime Radiant rewards orchestrators and systems engineers — tracing signal through a hierarchy. Most strong candidates do well at one. Exceptional ones at both.
We read the path: which puzzles you opened first, where you backtracked, what you tried before what worked. Tier matters less than trajectory. How you fail is more revealing than how you succeed.
The two instruments
Instrument 01 · Decomposition
31 puzzles, 6 concentric shells, outside-in to a single core. Architecture, geometry, signal, frequency. Test of decomposition under uncertainty.
Begin →Instrument 02 · Orchestration
30 puzzles, 6 orbital layers, ingress through kernel. Routing, transformation, verification, synthesis. Test of tracing signal through a stack.
Observe →Who we hire
We are a small team building a substantial system. Force OS is 248K lines of Rust written from scratch. STARHELM, SEAHELM, WATCHMAN, AOW, RESONANCE — five product surfaces in active production. We need people who carry their own weight, ship their own ideas, and read pattern across domains.
You read continuous-spectrum signal natively — in code, in systems, in conversations, in waveforms. You see ten things and feel which three matter.
You hold six axes of a problem in your head and find the move that resolves multiple at once. Not a planner — a pattern composer.
You ship. You run things in production. You read your own logs at 2am. You don't write design docs about why the design doc should be written.
Audio engineering. Naval doctrine. Federal procurement. Cryptography. Genetics. Geomagnetism. The cross-domain reader is the most valuable engineer at FORCE.
Innovate ruthlessly. Move at war speed. Ship, don't show. The four values are load-bearing, not decorative.
Force ships into cleared enclaves. We can sponsor clearance for the right person. US persons preferred for defense work.
The hiring frame
We hire people, then shape roles around them. The roles below are direction, not job descriptions. If you finish either instrument and have a take on which one fits you, that's the start of the conversation.
Force OS core, fleet orchestration runtime, deterministic replay, multi-model pipelines. You write the substrate the agents run on.
Strong on Prime RadiantRESONANCE — universal spectral tokenizer, cross-domain transfer architecture, frequency-domain foundation model. Pre-tokenization perception across 5 spectra.
Strong on PULSESTARHELM, SEAHELM, AOW. C2 surfaces, protocol adapters, attribution engines, edge enclave deployments. Cleared or clearable.
Strong on eitherForce OS operator surface, UE5 command theater, public-facing recruitment surfaces. Visual systems that hold dense information without losing taste.
Strong on PULSE