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snapchat.com • HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Messaging Apps • Social Networks • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2012 • Hiring 160, 16 new
HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Messaging Apps • Social Networks • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2012 • Hiring 160, 16 new
Snapchat is a visual messaging app operated by Snap Inc, a technology company built around the camera. Users chat, send Snaps, view Stories and try Lenses on mobile or desktop, and Snap also runs the subsidiary Specs Inc and hires software engineers for creator backend systems in New York. The company is headquartered in Venice, Los Angeles, California, United States.
$118k – $176k per year • Equity • In office (Santa Monica, San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Bellevue, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
$157k – $235k per year • Equity • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Santa Monica, San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Bellevue, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
mongodb.com • HQ: New York, United States • Vector Search & RAG • Databases & DBMS • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • NASDAQ: MDB • Trust B • Hiring 366, 18 new
HQ: New York, United States • Vector Search & RAG • Databases & DBMS • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • NASDAQ: MDB • Trust B • Hiring 366, 18 new
MongoDB is an American database company founded in 2007 that built a document-oriented database storing records as flexible JSON-like structures rather than fixed relational tables. Its main commercial product is Atlas, a managed service running the database across the major public clouds with search, vector search, streaming and analytics layered on top, which now supplies the majority of company revenue. Headquartered in New York and listed on Nasdaq, it acquired the embedding model company Voyage AI in 2025 to strengthen its position in retrieval for artificial intelligence applications, and its database remains among the most widely used outside the relational world.
$87k – $124k per year • Equity • Intern • Hybrid (Austin, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Intern
rivianvw.tech • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Automotive Manufacturing • Automotive Software • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Trust B • Hiring 146, 22 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Automotive Manufacturing • Automotive Software • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2024 • Trust B • Hiring 146, 22 new
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is an automotive technology joint venture that develops electrical architecture, zonal controllers, vehicle operating software, infotainment and connectivity for software-defined electric vehicles of both parent groups, headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Established in 2024 by Rivian and Volkswagen Group, it builds on Rivian's in-house software and electronics platform, with Volkswagen committing up to 5.8 billion dollars to the partnership. Its openings are mostly for embedded and Android software engineers, functional safety engineers, technical program managers, electronic design and validation engineers and hardware systems architects.
embedding.vc • San Francisco • Mountain View • Milpitas • New York • Palo Alto • Venture Capital • 51-200 employees • Hiring 52, 15 new
San Francisco • Mountain View • Milpitas • New York • Palo Alto • Venture Capital • 51-200 employees • Hiring 52, 15 new
Embedding VC is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in startups building on generative artificial intelligence, from model infrastructure to applications, robotics and developer tools. Its partners and limited partners are mainly current and former engineers and operators from technology companies, and the fund supports portfolio companies with hiring through a shared jobs board. The firm is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
spacex.com • HQ: Starbase, United States • Satellite Manufacturing • Satellite Communications • Launch Services • 5000+ employees • Est. 2002 • Trust A • Hiring 2539, 103 new
HQ: Starbase, United States • Satellite Manufacturing • Satellite Communications • Launch Services • 5000+ employees • Est. 2002 • Trust A • Hiring 2539, 103 new
SpaceX is an American aerospace manufacturer and launch services provider founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with the goal of making life multiplanetary. It developed the reusable Falcon 9, now by far the most flown orbital rocket in the world, the Dragon capsule that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, and Starship, the fully reusable super-heavy vehicle intended for lunar and Mars missions. The company also operates Starlink, a satellite constellation of thousands of spacecraft providing broadband to consumers, aircraft, ships and militaries, which has become its largest source of revenue.
$125k – $165k per year • Equity • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Bellevue, Palo Alto, Redmond, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Nationals only • Junior
$125k – $165k per year • Equity • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (Bellevue, Palo Alto, Redmond, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Nationals only • Junior
quince.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Home Decor • Apparel & Fashion Brands • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 153, 4 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Home Decor • Apparel & Fashion Brands • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 153, 4 new
Quince is an e-commerce retail company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2018. The company operates a direct-to-consumer marketplace that offers luxury-quality apparel, home goods, jewelry, and accessories by sourcing directly from manufacturers. It utilizes a manufacturer-to-consumer model to eliminate middleman costs and serves customers primarily in the United States and Canada through its online platform.
wing.com • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Drones & UAVs • Delivery • Drones • Est. 2012 • Trust B • Hiring 56, 3 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Drones & UAVs • Delivery • Drones • Est. 2012 • Trust B • Hiring 56, 3 new
Wing is a drone delivery company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that designs, builds and operates lightweight automated aircraft carrying small packages from businesses to homes within minutes. Part of Alphabet and started in 2012, it has completed well over one million residential deliveries, operates services on two continents and partners with retailers and logistics networks to integrate drone delivery into last-mile operations. It hires mechanical, electrical, flight test, manufacturing and software engineers, data scientists, pilots-in-command, supply chain and finance staff, and runs a large summer internship programme.
HQ: Boulogne-Billancourt, France • Biomedical Engineering • Embedded Software & RTOS • Engineering Services • 1001-5000 employees • Staffing · EOR • Trust B • Hiring 169, 22 new
ALTEN Technology is the United States engineering services arm of the French consultancy ALTEN, supplying product development engineers to manufacturers across medical devices, aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment and consumer electronics. Its engineers work inside client development programmes on mechanical design, embedded software, electrical engineering, verification and regulatory documentation, usually staffed for the duration of a product programme rather than for short advisory engagements. The business operates from offices across the United States and recruits continuously for engineering roles tied to specific client sites.
teleo.ai • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Industrial Machinery • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 11, 3 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Industrial Machinery • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 11, 3 new
Teleo converts heavy construction equipment into supervised autonomous machines. Its kits let one remote operator run several machines from an office. The company works with contractors in aggregates and earthmoving.
cursor.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • AI Development Tools • Code Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 122, 7 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • AI Development Tools • Code Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 122, 7 new
Anysphere builds Cursor, a code editor designed around AI assistance, where the model reads an entire repository and edits across files rather than completing single lines in isolation. Its agent mode plans and carries out multi-step changes, runs commands and reviews its own diffs, which made the editor one of the fastest-growing developer tools of the current AI wave and a standard part of many engineering workflows. The company describes itself as an applied research lab and trains its own models alongside the product.
rivian.com • HQ: Irvine, United States • Automotive Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust A • Hiring 717, 50 new
HQ: Irvine, United States • Automotive Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2009 • Trust A • Hiring 717, 50 new
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Rivian is an American electric vehicle manufacturer and automotive technology company. The enterprise designs and builds all-electric pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles, and commercial delivery vans tailored for both consumer adventure and commercial fleet operations. Through continuous innovation in battery technology and software-defined vehicle platforms, the business aims to accelerate the global transition to sustainable transportation.
elorian.ai • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Multimodal AI • AI Research Labs • 11-50 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 5
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Multimodal AI • AI Research Labs • 11-50 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 5
Elorian is an early-stage AI lab building frontier multimodal AI models, founded by former DeepMind researchers. The company has raised 55 million dollars in seed funding from investors including Striker Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital and NVIDIA. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
aidash.com • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Computer Vision • Energy AI • Earth Observation • Geospatial AI • Geospatial Analytics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019 • Startup • Hiring 17
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Computer Vision • Energy AI • Earth Observation • Geospatial AI • Geospatial Analytics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019 • Startup • Hiring 17
AiDash Saas platform enables asset management and operations in industries with geographically distributed assets with an AI-first approach using multispectral imagery, and SAR data from satellite constellations.
jpmorganchase.com • HQ: New York, United States • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Asset Management & Funds • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • Commercial & Retail Banks • 5000+ employees • Est. 1799 • Trust A • Hiring 3338, 187 new
HQ: New York, United States • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Asset Management & Funds • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • Commercial & Retail Banks • 5000+ employees • Est. 1799 • Trust A • Hiring 3338, 187 new
JPMorganChase is the largest bank in the United States by assets and one of the most systemically important financial institutions in the world, with a lineage running back through more than a thousand predecessor firms to the 1799 founding of the Bank of the Manhattan Company. It combines a dominant investment bank and markets business with Chase, the largest retail banking franchise in America, plus commercial banking and asset and wealth management. Headquartered in New York, the group is unusual among banks for the scale of its technology spending, running one of the largest engineering organisations of any financial institution and deploying its own internal AI platform across the firm.
pramaanalabs.ai • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Machine Learning • AI Research Labs • Startup • Hiring 7, 3 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Machine Learning • AI Research Labs • Startup • Hiring 7, 3 new
Pramaana Labs is a frontier AI lab building the verification layer for high-stakes AI. We turn complex domain knowledge into machine-checkable systems that return proofs, counterexamples, and traceable explanations.
arcinstitute.org • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Bioinformatics • Research Institutes • 201-500 employees • Est. 2021 • Trust B • Hiring 26, 2 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Bioinformatics • Research Institutes • 201-500 employees • Est. 2021 • Trust B • Hiring 26, 2 new
Arc Institute is a biomedical research organisation combining wet laboratory science with machine learning. Its teams released genome scale foundation models such as Evo. The institute funds long horizon research outside the university grant cycle.
plaud.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Office & Productivity Software • Speech & Audio AI • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 46, 2 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Office & Productivity Software • Speech & Audio AI • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 46, 2 new
Plaud is an AI hardware and software company headquartered in San Francisco that makes AI voice recorders and note-taking devices, with companion apps that transcribe, summarize and organize in-person conversations, phone calls and online meetings. Incorporated in Delaware and with further offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle and Beijing, it reports more than 2,500,000 users since 2023 and a $300 million revenue run rate reached within three years as a bootstrapped, profitable business. It hires machine learning engineers for speech models, full-stack and security engineers, product and growth managers, hardware designers and regional marketing and PR staff.
clockwork.io • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • AI Compute & Inference • DevOps & Platform Engineering • High-Performance Computing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 9
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • AI Compute & Inference • DevOps & Platform Engineering • High-Performance Computing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 9
Clockwork, operated by Clockwork Systems, Inc., builds software that optimizes GPU clusters for fault tolerance, deterministic performance and higher utilization. Its products target large distributed AI training and inference workloads that depend on GPUs staying tightly synchronised, including RDMA networking and failure recovery through its TorchPass product line. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
