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meshpay.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • Cryptocurrencies • Crypto Payments • 51-200 employees • Est. 2020 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 23, 5 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • Cryptocurrencies • Crypto Payments • 51-200 employees • Est. 2020 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 23, 5 new
Mesh builds connectivity infrastructure that lets applications link user accounts at exchanges and wallets for transfers and payments. Its network enables crypto payments funded directly from exchange balances without manual withdrawals. The company works with payment providers, brokerages and merchants accepting digital assets.
mongodb.com • HQ: New York, United States • Vector Search & RAG • Databases & DBMS • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • NASDAQ: MDB • Trust B • Hiring 365, 18 new
HQ: New York, United States • Vector Search & RAG • Databases & DBMS • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • NASDAQ: MDB • Trust B • Hiring 365, 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
apple.com • HQ: Cupertino, United States • Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers • Operating Systems • Tablets • Laptops • Smartphones • 5000+ employees • Est. 1976 • Trust A • Hiring 3712, 356 new
HQ: Cupertino, United States • Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers • Operating Systems • Tablets • Laptops • Smartphones • 5000+ employees • Est. 1976 • Trust A • Hiring 3712, 356 new
Apple is an American multinational technology company founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, and headquartered in Cupertino, California. It designs and sells consumer hardware including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and Vision Pro, together with the operating systems and silicon that run them. A growing services division built around the App Store, iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple Pay now contributes a large share of profit, making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world.
glean.com • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • Knowledge Graphs • AI Search • AI Agents • 201-500 employees • Est. 2019 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 121, 12 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • Knowledge Graphs • AI Search • AI Agents • 201-500 employees • Est. 2019 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 121, 12 new
Glean is an American company founded in 2019 by former Google search engineers who observed that enterprise search had barely improved in two decades while the volume of internal documents had exploded. It indexes a company's applications, documents, messages and tickets, respects the permissions of each source system, and answers questions across all of them, having extended from search into assistants and agents that act on the same connected data. Headquartered in Palo Alto and valued in the billions, it sells to large enterprises where employees can no longer find what the organisation already knows.
earlywarning.com • HQ: Scottsdale, United States • Fraud Detection • Payment Processing & Gateways • RegTech, AML & Compliance • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1990 • Trust B • Hiring 62, 8 new
HQ: Scottsdale, United States • Fraud Detection • Payment Processing & Gateways • RegTech, AML & Compliance • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1990 • Trust B • Hiring 62, 8 new
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Early Warning Services is a fintech company co-owned by seven of the largest American banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo. The company develops identity, risk management, and fraud prevention solutions designed to secure transaction ecosystems across financial institutions. Additionally, it operates major consumer payment networks, most notably Zelle, enabling fast and secure digital money transfers.
snap.com • HQ: Santa Monica, United States • AR & VR Software • Messaging Apps • Social Networks • Advertising • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011 • Trust A • Hiring 194, 17 new
HQ: Santa Monica, United States • AR & VR Software • Messaging Apps • Social Networks • Advertising • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011 • Trust A • Hiring 194, 17 new
Snap Inc. is a technology and social media enterprise specializing in visual communication, augmented reality, and digital advertising platforms. The company focuses on developing and maintaining multimedia messaging applications (Snapchat), personal avatar services (Bitmoji), augmented reality creation environments (Lens Studio), and wearable hardware (Spectacles).
$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
brightdata.com • HQ: Netanya, Israel • Internet Services • Artificial Intelligence • Web Scraping & Proxy Networks • Data Providers & Datasets • AI Training Data & Annotation • 201-500 employees • Est. 2014 • Hiring 17, 3 new
HQ: Netanya, Israel • Internet Services • Artificial Intelligence • Web Scraping & Proxy Networks • Data Providers & Datasets • AI Training Data & Annotation • 201-500 employees • Est. 2014 • Hiring 17, 3 new
Bright Data is an Israeli company founded in 2014 that operates one of the largest public web data collection networks. Its proxy infrastructure, scraping interfaces and prebuilt datasets are widely used to assemble the training and retrieval corpora behind machine learning systems. The company has defended the collection of public web data in several court cases and serves e-commerce, finance and AI research customers.
lilly.com • HQ: Indianapolis, United States • Oncology Therapeutics • Cardiometabolic Therapeutics • Prescription Drugs • 5000+ employees • Est. 1876 • Trust B • Hiring 498, 108 new
HQ: Indianapolis, United States • Oncology Therapeutics • Cardiometabolic Therapeutics • Prescription Drugs • 5000+ employees • Est. 1876 • Trust B • Hiring 498, 108 new
Eli Lilly and Company, known as Lilly, is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, that discovers, develops and manufactures medicines for diabetes, obesity, cancer, immunology and neuroscience. Founded in 1876 by pharmacist Eli Lilly, it employs more than 50,000 people, sells its products in about 125 countries and runs manufacturing and research sites in places such as Limerick, Cork, Alcobendas, Concord and Kobe. Its openings span pharmaceutical sales territory managers, formulation operators, software engineers and AI architects, finance and marketing staff, and a large programme of interns and apprentices.
exa.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Vector Search & RAG • Web Scraping & Proxy Networks • AI Search • Search Engines • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 54, 5 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Vector Search & RAG • Web Scraping & Proxy Networks • AI Search • Search Engines • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 54, 5 new
Exa builds a web search engine designed for AI applications and agents rather than for human readers, sold to developers and enterprises through APIs. It trained its own embedding-based search models and runs its own crawl that tracks more than 500 billion URLs, exposed through Search, Contents, Agent and Monitors APIs and Websets, a high-compute search product for lists of companies and people. Founded in 2021 in San Francisco under the name Metaphor, it serves more than 5,000 companies including Cursor, Cognition and HubSpot and raised a $250 million Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2026.
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.
≈ $122k – $248k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
salesforce.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Team Communication & Collaboration • Marketing Automation • Customer Support & Help Desk Software • BI & Dashboard Software • Marketing & Sales AI • CRM Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 1999 • Trust B • Hiring 1448, 164 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Team Communication & Collaboration • Marketing Automation • Customer Support & Help Desk Software • BI & Dashboard Software • Marketing & Sales AI • CRM Software • 5000+ employees • Est. 1999 • Trust B • Hiring 1448, 164 new
Salesforce is an American enterprise software company founded in 1999 that pioneered delivering business applications over the internet rather than as installed software. Its Customer 360 platform brings sales, service, marketing, commerce and analytics onto shared customer data, extended by the Slack collaboration suite, the Tableau analytics business and the MuleSoft integration layer. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company has moved its product strategy toward autonomous agents through Agentforce and the Data Cloud, and it remains the largest customer relationship management vendor in the world by revenue share.
$173k – $260k per year • Lead • 4+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
twitch.tv • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Creator & Fan Platforms • Streaming & OTT Platforms • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2011 • Trust B • Hiring 54, 15 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Creator & Fan Platforms • Streaming & OTT Platforms • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2011 • Trust B • Hiring 54, 15 new
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitch (operated by Twitch Interactive, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon) is a global live-streaming platform and interactive digital media enterprise. The company provides real-time video broadcasting and community engagement tools, specializing in esports competitions, video game streaming, creative content, music broadcasts, and "Just Chatting" interactive talk channels.
databricks.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • Query Engines & Big Data Processing • Data Warehouses & Lakehouses • 5000+ employees • Est. 2013 • Trust B • Hiring 857, 38 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • Query Engines & Big Data Processing • Data Warehouses & Lakehouses • 5000+ employees • Est. 2013 • Trust B • Hiring 857, 38 new
Databricks is an American software company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow at the University of California, Berkeley. Its data intelligence platform unifies data engineering, warehousing, governance, analytics and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture that stores open table formats in a customer's own cloud object storage. Headquartered in San Francisco and available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, the platform is used by tens of thousands of organisations to build pipelines, dashboards and production AI applications.
baseten.co • HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • AI Compute & Inference • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2019 • Trust B • Hiring 105, 8 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • AI Compute & Inference • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2019 • Trust B • Hiring 105, 8 new
Baseten is an American company founded in 2019 that runs machine learning models in production for companies that would rather not operate GPU infrastructure themselves. Its position is inference rather than training: it handles model packaging, autoscaling, cold start latency and multi-cloud capacity, which are the unglamorous problems that determine whether a model-powered product is fast and affordable enough to ship. Headquartered in San Francisco and backed at a multi-billion dollar valuation, it serves companies deploying open and custom models, and it competes with both the hyperscalers and the model providers' own hosted endpoints.
$165k – $330k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, United States, Toronto, Montreal, Canada) • Full-Time • Middle
waymo.com • HQ: Mountain View, United States • Ride Hailing • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 5000+ employees • Est. 2009 • Trust B • Hiring 357, 25 new
HQ: Mountain View, United States • Ride Hailing • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 5000+ employees • Est. 2009 • Trust B • Hiring 357, 25 new
Waymo is an American autonomous driving company that began as the Google self-driving car project in 2009 and became a standalone Alphabet subsidiary in 2016. It operates the largest fully driverless commercial ride-hailing service in the world through the Waymo One app, carrying paying passengers with no human in the vehicle across Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin and an expanding list of cities. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company builds its own sensor suite and the Waymo Driver software stack, integrates them into vehicles from partners such as Jaguar, Zeekr and Hyundai, and also develops autonomous trucking technology.
atoms.co • HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Mining & Heavy Industry Robotics • Industrial Automation • Industrial Robotics • 1001-5000 employees • Trust A • Hiring 307, 32 new
HQ: Los Angeles, United States • Mining & Heavy Industry Robotics • Industrial Automation • Industrial Robotics • 1001-5000 employees • Trust A • Hiring 307, 32 new
Atoms is an industrial robotics company that rebranded from City Storage Systems, the parent of CloudKitchens. It builds task-specific robots and automation infrastructure across food, mining and transport, and its openings are concentrated in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and New York. The company is based in the United States.
bobyard.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Construction Management Software • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 42, 4 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Construction Management Software • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 42, 4 new
Bobyard is a construction technology startup based in San Francisco that builds AI takeoff and estimating software, using computer vision and language models trained on construction drawings to measure and count materials for bids. Backed by Primary, Pear and 8VC, it serves landscaping, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, finishes and paving contractors, with an in-house research team building trade-specific models and a new sales push in the UK. It hires account executives, sales development representatives, sales engineers, forward deployed and frontend engineers, product managers and designers, data analysts, recruiters and operations managers.
clickhouse.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Databases & DBMS • Data Warehouses & Lakehouses • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 164, 12 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Databases & DBMS • Data Warehouses & Lakehouses • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2021 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 164, 12 new
ClickHouse is the company behind the open source column-oriented database of the same name, which was originally built inside Yandex for web analytics and released publicly in 2016 before the company was incorporated in 2021. The database is designed for analytical queries over very large tables, using columnar storage, vectorised execution and aggressive compression to answer aggregations across billions of rows in under a second, which has made it a common choice for observability, product analytics and real-time reporting. The company sells a managed cloud service on top of the open source project and operates as a remote-first organisation.
textla.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Startup • Hiring 1, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Startup • Hiring 1, 1 new
Textla is an SMS messaging platform that empowers businesses to reach their customers via text messages. We're the simplest and most affordable SMS and messaging tool in the world.
wellsfargo.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Mortgage Lending & Brokers • Commercial & Retail Banks • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1852 • Trust A • Hiring 2551, 631 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Investment Banking & M&A Advisory • Wealth Management & Financial Advisors • Mortgage Lending & Brokers • Commercial & Retail Banks • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1852 • Trust A • Hiring 2551, 631 new
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest diversified financial services and banking institutions in the United States. The enterprise offers a broad suite of consumer banking, commercial lending, wealth management, and mortgage products to millions of individual and corporate clients. Operating an extensive network of physical branches alongside robust digital channels, it delivers critical financial infrastructure across domestic and international markets.
