Anduril Industries banned from recruiting on NixOS forums

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I despise companies like Anduril, who makes money on war. 23 Likes Bummer. I can’t move to Cali right now, but I’d love to work full time with Nix tools! 2 Likes Questions that might help other folks: Is this limited to US citizens? How’s the non-compete/IP stuff over there? Anything interesting about the way y’all use Nix/NixOS? Flakes or not flakes, that sort of thing? Open-source opportunities? Moonlighting? It looks like the salary, vacation, etc. is available via the link you have. 4 Likes Is this limited to US citizens? This is limited to clearance-eligible individuals, which is broader than US citizens (many classes of non-citizen US persons are eligible). There’s extensive legalese at the bottom of the page to this effect. How’s the non-compete/IP stuff over there? It’s bog standard Silicon Valley startup style language (to which the typical California enforceability caveats apply). Anything interesting about the way y’all use Nix/NixOS? Flakes or not flakes, that sort of thing? I’m not sure if any of these count as interesting, but: We have a large Nixpkgs overlay that adds all of Anduril’s non-opsec-restricted internal packages, followed by additional overlays for compartments. All Anduril services are configured with NixOS modules. My team in particular is heavily invested in cross compilation infrastructure (although frankly, Apple Silicon is making it less and less relevant all the time. I find this unfortunate from a packaging system architecture perspective, but it’s practically convenient to have such fast native builds on my local machine). The trickiest stuff we do is FPGA builds in Nix, and we’re always looking for new ways to improve how this works (along with way to increase the reproducibility of these sorts of builds, which tend to involve stochastic optimization). We use flakes but in a (IMO) somewhat anemic way. They’re only used to pass overlays around and control pins. This issue keeps me from using flakes the way I want. Open-source oppor...