The results are in. Even with AI, junior engineers are still junior engineers. That's why we're only looking for 10x engineers. People who were proven industry operators before AI, and who can now, with AI, achieve 100x.
What did not change - A faster keyboard is not a promotion.
A model can draft, search, and refactor. It cannot supply judgment you never had. If you were a junior engineer before these tools, you are a junior engineer with a faster keyboard. We are not hiring that. This is not a junior role, a mentorship program, or a prompt-engineering title.
What we mean by 10x - Not a vibe. A record.
AI did not make these people. It removed the ceiling.
Operated. You ran production systems before this wave of tools, and the outcome was yours.
Still capable. You can design, debug, and ship with the model turned off. With it on, you can do the work of a hundred.
An hourly wage. You know what an hour of that work costs. Name it.
Outcomes. You want to be measured by what shipped, not by hours performed.
The work - Enterprise standard, without the enterprise.
Cedar Labs builds software for teams that are not a Fortune 500 and still need that standard. We are not collecting a bench of people who learned to prompt last quarter. If you were already the person other engineers called when it was hard, apply below.
Design, engineering management, and tech lead are on the form. The programming questions appear only if you pick an engineering discipline.