Terms of use

Effective October 17, 2026. These terms govern statesidespec.com, job alert and article emails, and paid listings.

Plain-English summary

Stateside Spec is a job board and email service for engineering jobs in the United States. We are not an employer, recruiter or staffing agency. You apply on the employer’s own site.
Most listings are collected from employers’ public career pages and feeds. We don’t verify them. A job may be filled, changed or gone by the time you read it.
We do not run a citizenship filter. We filter employers (U.S.-headquartered and U.S.-controlled) and job locations (in the United States). Roles that legally require U.S.-person status (export control, government contract) can say so.
Job alerts and Articles are free email. You confirm your address before anything is sent, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
Employers can pay to list a role ($149 founding rate for the first 20 employers, then $250; +$99 for Featured). You pay first, an automated check runs right away, and an editor approves it. If it fails the check or an editor rejects it, you get a refund of the full amount charged. A live listing runs 30 days from approval.
Employers promise that the company really is U.S.-headquartered and U.S.-controlled, that the job is real and in the U.S., and that the ad follows pay-transparency and anti-discrimination law. If that is false, we can remove the listing without a refund.
If you own something we have posted and want it removed or fixed, email us and we will act promptly.
Our legal responsibility is limited (section 13). Delaware law applies.

This summary is a convenience. The full text below controls.

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are a contract between you and Primeta AI Inc. (“Primeta AI,” “Stateside Spec,” “we,” “us”). They cover statesidespec.com (the “Site”), our job alert and article emails, and paid employer listings (together, the “Service”). By using the Site, subscribing, creating an account, or submitting or paying for a listing, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy page. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 16 to use the Site or subscribe. To buy a listing you must be at least 18 and authorized to bind the company you name.

2. What we are, and what we are not

Stateside Spec is a job board and email service. We publish engineering jobs located in the United States and send job alerts and articles by email. We are not the employer, not a recruiter, and not a placement agency. We do not introduce candidates, charge placement fees, host applications, or take part in hiring decisions. To apply, you go to the employer’s site. We do not receive your application.

Stateside Spec is owned and operated by Primeta AI Inc., Primeta AI Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave STE 4751, Dover, DE 19904, US. Contact: [email protected] or the contact form.

3. Listings on the board

3.1 Where listings come from. There are two kinds.

Collected listings. Most of the board is collected automatically from employers’ public career pages and applicant-tracking feeds (currently Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workday and USAJOBS) and shown with a link to the employer’s own posting. Our editors may also add or remove listings by hand.
Employer-submitted listings. Employers can submit and pay for a listing (section 8). Paid listings carry an “Employer listing” or “Featured” badge.

3.2 Automated filing. We sort listings by discipline, location, seniority, pay, work-authorization and clearance notes and similar fields using rules and automated tools, including an AI model that reads listing text (see the Privacy page). These tags can be wrong. We do not verify listings with the employer.

3.3 No guarantee of accuracy or availability. We do not guarantee that a listing is real, open, current or accurate, including its title, pay, location, remote policy, work-authorization notes, clearance, or whether the employer sponsors visas. A role may be filled or changed before we update it. Confirm everything with the employer before you spend time on an application. A listing on the Site is not an endorsement of the employer or an offer of employment from us.

3.4 Pay. Where a listing shows pay, it comes from the employer’s posting or our reading of it. We do not set it. The employer is responsible for pay disclosures required by law.

3.5 Third-party sites. Links to employer sites, applicant-tracking systems and other third parties are for convenience. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, terms, privacy practices or conduct.

4. U.S. employers and U.S. jobs, and no citizenship filter

4.1 Stateside Spec lists jobs at employers that are headquartered in, and controlled from, the United States, for roles located in the United States (or remote roles based in the United States). Minority foreign investment in a company does not by itself disqualify it.

4.2 This is an employer and location filter. It is not a citizenship filter. We do not offer a “citizens only” search, and employers may not post citizens-only or H-1B-only listings.

4.3 Some roles legally require U.S.-person status because of export control (such as ITAR) or a government contract, or require a security clearance. A listing may say so. Those notes come from the employer or the posting and are shown as information. We do not create them.

4.4 Federal listings from USAJOBS link to the official USAJOBS application.

5. Job alerts and Articles (email)

5.1 What they are. Job alerts are emails of newly listed U.S. engineering roles that match the disciplines, states and work arrangements you pick. Articles are op-eds and interviews by U.S. engineering leaders. Both are free. If we introduce premium offerings later, they will have their own terms and clear pricing before you are charged.

5.2 Confirmed opt-in. When you submit your address we email you a confirmation link. We do not add you to a send list until you click it. Signing in to an account does not subscribe you.

5.3 Sender, frequency, content. Emails come from “Stateside Spec” and replies go to [email protected]. Job alerts are sent at most once a day, and only when there are new matching roles. Articles are sent when we publish them, with no fixed schedule. Subject lines describe the contents. Every email includes our postal address (Primeta AI Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave STE 4751, Dover, DE 19904, US).

5.4 Opting out. Every email has an unsubscribe link that works without logging in, and a one-click unsubscribe header for mail apps. Unsubscribing removes your address from all of our email lists, and we honor it immediately. To change only one list (for example, keep Articles but stop job alerts), use the “Change your alerts” link in any email. You can also email [email protected]. You can unsubscribe on this page without signing in.

5.5 Service emails. Even if you unsubscribe, we may send transactional messages you ask for or need, such as sign-in links, subscription confirmations and, for employers, order, refund and listing notices.

5.6 Paid listings in alerts. Paid employer listings may appear on the board and in job alerts where they match your picks.

6. Accounts

You can sign in with a one-time link sent to your email. You are responsible for your inbox and for activity under your account. Do not share sign-in links. We may suspend or close an account that abuses the Service (fake listings, scraping that degrades the Site, harassment, or breaking these Terms).

7. Acceptable use

Do not: scrape, crawl or copy the Site in a way that harms it or bypasses its limits (we publish listings for individual job seekers, not for resale or bulk republication); post or submit false, misleading, discriminatory or unlawful content; use the Site to advertise immigration sponsorship, labor-certification recruitment or recruiting fees as the product; probe, attack or overload the Service; or use anything you learn from the Service about other people for anything other than your own job search. We do not sell the subscriber list.

8. Employer listings

8.1 Prices. A 30 days listing costs $250. As a founding rate, an employer’s first listing costs $149 for the first 20 employers who buy. Featured placement is +$99. Prices are in U.S. dollars and may change for future orders. The price shown at checkout is the price you pay.

8.2 How it works.

You complete the listing form, agree to these Terms, and pay by card through Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
Right after payment, an automated check screens the listing (section 8.3). We run the same check before you pay too, so an obviously ineligible listing is stopped before you are charged.
A listing that passes goes to an editor, who approves or rejects it.
If approved, it goes live and stays live for 30 days from the approval date, not the payment date. We email you when it is live and about 5 days before it ends.

8.3 What we screen for. A listing fails the check if it contains citizens-only or H-1B-only wording; reads like a PERM or other labor-certification recruitment ad rather than a real open role; is for a role outside the United States or a company stated to be headquartered outside the United States; or is not an engineering role. An editor may also reject a listing that is inaccurate, misleading, a duplicate, unlawful, or otherwise outside our policies.

8.4 Refund if we do not publish. If a listing fails the automated check or an editor rejects it, we refund the full amount charged to your card. Stripe does not return its processing fee to us when a payment is refunded. We absorb that cost and do not deduct it from your refund. We start the refund as soon as the decision is made, and your bank or card issuer may take about 5 to 10 business days to show it. We email you the reason.

8.5 Withdrawal before approval. If you ask us to withdraw a listing before an editor has approved it, we will cancel it and refund the full amount charged.

8.6 After a listing is live. You may ask us to take your listing down early at any time. Because the run has begun, early removal at your request does not entitle you to a refund. If we remove a live listing for a reason that is not your breach of these Terms (for example, our own error), we will refund the unused part of the run pro rata. If we remove a listing because it is inaccurate, misleading, no longer open, violates these Terms, or because of a third-party complaint that we reasonably consider valid, no refund is due.

8.7 Results. We do not promise any number of views, clicks, applicants or hires. We do not charge placement fees. Employers can see anonymous view and Apply-click counts for their listing; these are approximate and exclude bots.

8.8 Founding rate. The founding rate applies to a company’s first listing. Later listings are at the standard price.

8.9 Chargebacks and disputes. If you have a concern with a charge, email [email protected] first so we can fix it. If you file a dispute or chargeback for a charge that we refunded, or that was for a listing we published, we may remove the listing and contest the dispute.

8.10 No auto-renewal. Listings do not renew automatically.

9. What employers promise

By submitting a listing you represent and warrant to us that:

Authority. You are authorized to submit the listing and to bind the company named.
U.S. headquarters and control. The company is headquartered in the United States (its principal place of business, where its senior leadership directs and controls the business, is in the United States) and is controlled from the United States (it is not majority-owned or controlled by a non-U.S. person or entity; minority foreign investors are fine). We list only such employers. You acknowledge that we rely on this statement and that it is a material term of the order.
U.S. role. The role is located in the United States, or is a remote role open to workers based in the United States.
Real opening. The listing is a genuine, currently open position that you intend to fill. It is not a PERM, labor-certification or other compliance advertisement, a “talent pool,” or a placeholder.
Accuracy. All information in the listing (including title, location, work arrangement, pay, sponsorship and clearance fields, and the apply link) is accurate and current. The apply link goes to your own site or applicant-tracking system.
No citizenship discrimination. The listing has no citizens-only, permanent-resident-only or H-1B-only limit, other than a requirement that the law, an export-control rule or a government contract actually imposes, which you identify by choosing the U.S.-person option and not by writing it into the description.
Lawful ad. The listing complies with applicable law, including equal employment opportunity, anti-discrimination and pay-transparency laws. If a state or city requires a pay range or other disclosure in job postings, you are responsible for including it in the text you submit.
No fees to applicants. You do not charge applicants a fee to apply or be considered.
Rights. You own or have permission to use all text, logos and other material you submit, and our use of them as described in these Terms does not infringe anyone’s rights.

If any of these is false, we may remove the listing immediately and decline future listings. No refund is due for a listing removed for breach of this section, and section 14 applies.

10. Your content, and our license

You keep ownership of your listing text, logos and other content. By submitting content you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, reproduce, display, format and distribute it on the Site, in our emails, and in previews of Site pages (such as link-preview images) for the life of the listing, and for a reasonable period afterward in archives and backups. Do not send us confidential candidate or personal data.

11. Collected listings, takedowns and copyright

11.1 Takedown and correction requests. We show listings that employers have published on their own career pages and in applicant-tracking feeds, with links back to the employer. If you are an employer or rights holder and want a listing changed or removed, email [email protected] or use the “Report an issue with this listing” link on the listing page. We will review promptly, and we will remove or correct a listing when you ask and show you are authorized to ask.

11.2 Copyright notices (DMCA). If you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent containing: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work; (c) identification of the material and its location (URL); (d) your contact information; (e) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

Designated agent: [DMCA AGENT NAME AND POSTAL ADDRESS: PLACEHOLDER. Register with the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory, then replace this line.]
Email: [email protected]

11.3 Counter-notice. If we remove material and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3). We may restore the material as that law provides.

11.4 Repeat infringers. We will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any listing is accurate, current, lawful or open. We are not responsible for any employer’s hiring decisions, for any application, or for any third-party site. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so part of this section may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Primeta AI and its officers, directors, employees and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunities (including lost job offers or hires), arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, net of refunds, and (b) US$100.

These limits do not exclude liability that cannot be excluded by law, for example for fraud or willful misconduct.

14. Employer indemnity

If you submit a listing, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Primeta AI and its officers, directors, employees and agents from any claim, loss, liability, damage and expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from: (a) the content of your listing; (b) your breach of section 9, including a false U.S.-headquarters or U.S.-control statement; (c) your violation of law, including employment, discrimination and pay-transparency law; or (d) a claim that your content infringes someone’s rights.

15. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. You and we agree that any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and each of us consents to personal jurisdiction there. Nothing here prevents either of us from seeking injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property.

16. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or end your access, remove content, or decline or remove listings at any time for violations of these Terms or to protect the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 9, 10, 12 through 15 and 17) will survive.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms, and the effective date above will change. If we make a material change that affects paid listings, we will email the address on your account or order when we can. Changes do not apply retroactively to a listing you have already paid for. Continued use after an update means you accept it.

18. General

These Terms and the Privacy page are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If a court finds a part unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in a merger, acquisition or sale of the Service. We may give notice by email or on the Site.

19. Contact

Primeta AI Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave STE 4751, Dover, DE 19904, US. Email: [email protected].