# 2026 Active Job Shortlist
AI Summary
Purpose:
- Maintain the durable decision layer for current job opportunities that are
worth application effort after role, finance, welfare, and culture checks.
Key points:
- This file is the unused-market scan, not the live application tracker. For
current process status start at ai/wiki/projects/2026-career-transition.md.
- Live process on 2026-08-24: Remember & Company
Data Engineer, first-round
passed, awaiting second round. Do not start a new tailored resume unless the user asks.
- Highest unused apply-now candidate from the 2026-08-04 scan: SOCAR
Platform Engineer (DBA), Wanted posting 377851, last verified active on 2026-08-04. Recheck the posting before any draft work.
- Estimated SOCAR role-fit evidence coverage is 85%, driven by strong alignment
with MySQL, Python automation, database operations, monitoring, incident response, and internal platform work.
- SOCAR's operating result and cash generation improved, but its 2025 net loss,
256.7% debt ratio, and 51.5% current ratio require an operating recovery, capital-structure caution label.
- SpoonLabs, NICE JiniData, and R.SQUARE are not current application priorities;
each has a material condition that should be resolved before spending resume effort.
- Kmong
Data Engineer (3+ years), Remember posting334810, was submitted on
2026-08-28 (user-confirmed; submission time and screening schedule are Needs confirmation). It was a deliberate stretch application at about 60% evidence coverage. Python, Airflow, Kubernetes, data modeling, and data-infrastructure operation align, but the posting explicitly requires production recommendation/ranking ML serving and data-warehouse operation, which are not verified candidate evidence and were left as declared gaps in the submitted package.
- A search-engine result or aggregator snippet is not sufficient. Official
posting status must be checked again immediately before application work.
Relevant when:
- Choosing the next job-specific resume target.
- Deciding whether a newly found posting deserves full application-pipeline
effort.
Do not read full document unless:
- The current decision, unresolved conditions, or recheck trigger is needed.
Linked documents:
ai/sources/career/2026-08-04-codex-public-job-market-scan.mdai/sources/career/2026-08-20-kmong-data-engineer-remember-334810.mdai/sources/career/2026-08-24-remember-first-interview-result.mdai/wiki/projects/2026-career-transition.mdhuman/career/2026-08-04-codex-지원-후보.mdhuman/career/job-shortlist.htmlhuman/career/2026-지원-현황.md
Open Questions
- Confirm SOCAR's managed-cloud database expectation, on-call rotation, team
headcount, and PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis learning expectations.
- Confirm NICE JiniData's employment type before promoting it from verification
queue to an application candidate.
- Confirm whether an explicitly high-intensity culture is acceptable before
reconsidering SpoonLabs.
- Re-run authenticated Remember coverage when a browser session is available.
- Confirm whether Kmong treats recommendation/ranking model training and serving
as a strict screening gate and how much of the role is ML platform work.
- Confirm Kmong's compensation range, team size, warehouse stack, and on-call
expectations.
Details
Live process vs unused shortlist
As of 2026-08-24 the live application is Remember & Company Data Engineer (first-round passed; second-round panel is the CTO and head of AI/Data; schedule and format remain Needs confirmation). Do not treat the table below as today's work queue.
The table is the 2026-08-04 public-market scan of unused targets. SOCAR remains the highest unused apply-now candidate from that scan. Recheck posting 377851 before drafting; the 2026-08-04 active status is not a 2026-08-24 recheck.
Current decision table
| Priority | Company / role | Decision | Role-fit evidence | Recheck trigger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SOCAR / Platform Engineer (DBA) | Apply now, finance caution | 85% | Recheck posting 377851 immediately before drafting |
| 2 | SpoonLabs / DBA | Hold | 80% | User explicitly accepts the high-intensity culture and operating-loss risk |
| 3 | NICE JiniData / Data Engineer | Verify first | 74% | Regular-employment track and NiFi expectation are confirmed |
| 4 | Kmong / Data Engineer (3+ years) | Applied 2026-08-28 | ~60% | Screening outcome; the ML-platform transition question moves to interview if contacted |
| 5 | R.SQUARE / Data Engineer | Watch | 74% | Profitability and role-stack fit improve materially |
Application guardrails
- Use the SOCAR role as a database-platform application, not as a generic data
engineering application.
- Lead with verified MySQL operational depth, automation, monitoring, incident
response, and self-service platform work.
- State AWS evidence precisely: production MySQL was self-managed on EC2; do not
imply RDS production experience.
- Do not claim PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or GitOps production experience.
- Before drafting a tailored resume, preserve the current posting and run the
repository's full job-tailored resume pipeline.
- For Kmong, do not claim Spark, formal DW/mart operation, production model
serving, Feature Store, Terraform, SageMaker/Personalize, or real-time streaming. Use the verified batch-oriented CDC boundary and EC2-only AWS scope.