Aqora is the "Hugging Face for quantum computing". We host datasets, benchmarks, and use-case challenges, plus the orchestration layer to run quantum algorithms and workflows across hardware backends, so results are reproducible, comparable, and actually move the field forward. We grew out of the QuantX hackathons at École Polytechnique and now run competitions and a public datasets hub for partners across pharma, finance, energy, and defense.

We're hiring:

* Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Rust/React). Build the platform end to end: datasets hub, challenges, leaderboards, and the workflow engine that orchestrates quantum jobs across backends. You own features from schema to UI and care about developer experience. Bonus: data, ML, or research-platform experience.

* Quantum Computing Expert. Design challenges, curate datasets, define benchmarks, and shape how algorithms and workflows run on the platform. Work directly with enterprise partners to translate their problems into something the community can solve. PhD or equivalent depth in quantum algorithms, QML, or optimization.

* Chief Commercial Officer, US. Own US go-to-market end to end: strategy, enterprise pipeline, team build-out. You've scaled commercial functions at a deep-tech, dev-tools, or research-platform company. Based in the US.

* Head of Marketing. Positioning, demand gen, and brand for a category still being defined. B2B technical marketing background required; quantum experience welcome but not necessary, curiosity is.

* Product Manager. Drive the roadmap across the datasets hub, challenges platform, benchmarks, and workflow orchestration. Strong technical instincts and experience shipping developer or research-facing products.

* Sales, EU. Enterprise sales into R&D and innovation teams across Europe. Long, technical sales cycles, consultative selling, comfort talking to PhDs and procurement on the same day. EU-based, remote.

Reach out to jannes[at]aqora.io with a short note on why this problem space and what you've built or sold before.

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Also, I am genuinely curious about the choice of license.

Given the „new (agentic) way“ in that software is being developed now, don’t you think it can be copied easily and that this kind of license will hinder adoption at some point?

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I found it very useful recently to have my own "Steve Jobs in my pocket" when developing with Claude Code. I can ask it what Steve Jobs would think and usually comes up with great user, simplicity, and story-first thinking.

I thought this might be useful for others, so sharing it here. In the article I also describe why I think skills are the new apps, just with different economics. If you haven't tried them yet, it's certainly worth it. Much more of a change to "default" Claude Code than without.

Happy to hear any feedback!

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There have been a lot of security concerns around running OpenClaw, and rightfully so. This operator tries to mitigate the ones it can at the infrastructure level: non-root execution, all capabilities dropped, default-deny NetworkPolicy, a validating webhook that blocks root containers. It won't help with what the agent's skills do, but at least the blast radius is contained.

Full disclosure: this was largely vibe-coded with Claude Code. Some highlights of what came out of it:

- Config changes trigger automatic rollouts via SHA-256 content hashing

- Optional Chromium sidecar for browser automation, hardened with its own security context and shared memory tuning

- The whole thing is a single CRD, so going from zero to a secured instance is just a kubectl apply

Apache 2.0 licensed. Happy to hear feedback.

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I am optimistic that OpenClaw will actually drive a lot of security tooling around the use of LLMs from here

The parallel I'm drawing: LLMs are commoditizing the way x86 hardware did in the early 90s. What's missing is the open-source operating system on top - the layer that connects a token prediction API to your actual tools and messaging apps. That's what OpenClaw does.

I know the analogy is imperfect (and I address where it breaks in the post). Happy to discuss the technical architecture, the agent layer thesis, or where you think I'm wrong.

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