Full-Stack Engineer - Generalist (Contract, Palo Alto) at Moon Creative Lab
Palo Alto, CA
$110–$160/hrfrom the description
Jul 13, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A part-time (with full-time potential) full-stack engineering role focused on building and maintaining a platform that connects manufacturing processes to software. Day-to-day work spans data ingestion pipelines, end-to-end testing and CI reliability, and frontend/backend feature development. Suits an engineer comfortable owning problems independently across cloud-native stacks, with an interest in hardware-adjacent systems.
Senior level · National · Part-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is explicitly in-office; no location city is named in the posting, only the company name (Moon Creative Lab). The CBSA could not be determined from the posting text alone.
The posting starts as part-time (24–28 hrs/week) with an explicit expectation of converting to full-time as the company scales; employment type is classified as PartTime to reflect the current engagement.
React and TypeScript are listed as frontend examples ('e.g., React, TypeScript') and Node.js/Python as backend examples under the Must-Haves section — the 'e.g.' qualifies the specific tool, not the requirement itself, so these are treated as hard gates with the named tools as interchangeable alternatives within their respective tiers. React/TypeScript are captured as separate required skills since they serve distinct functions (framework vs. language); Node.js and Python are captured as alternatives to each other for the backend requirement.
The Nice-to-Haves (greenfield system experience, polymer science/3D printing curiosity, physical-digital interface experience) are soft signals with no named technologies and were omitted from the skills list as they name no concrete tools.
Seniority is assessed as Senior based on the expectation of end-to-end ownership, production cloud-native experience, and cross-system architectural judgment — despite no explicit level label in the title.
Posting is for a part-time engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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