Open roles at Cursor, Town, Replit, and Harvey

Plus, a list of early-stage startups building their founding teams

Build -1 → 0

Get on the ground floor with the founding team of a pre-seed or seed-stage startup.

• Paul Cohen (prev One Medical) and Gil Shklarski (prev CTO at Flatiron Health) are building a new healthcare institution for the next era of medicine. They’re hiring a Design Leader in NYC to invent the design language for human & agentic care, spanning clinician and patient interfaces, digital and in-person. Apply here!

• Kexin Huang (Stanford CS PhD) and Yuanhao Qu (Stanford Cancer Bio PhD) are building Phylo, a research lab advancing AI biomedical discovery. They’re hiring a Forward Deployed Scientist for up to $275K (South SF) to work directly with pharma and biotech teams. Apply here!

• The team behind vLLM is building Inferact to make open models cheaper and faster to run. They’re hiring a Founding Product Designer (SF) to define how vLLM and Inferact look and feel. Apply here!

a16z@a16z

Inferact CEO Simon Mo says open and closed models are converging. The moat is environment: "What really differentiates open-weight models from closed-weight models? In the end, there's not much differentiation. It's more about the distribution strategy and go-to-market strategy.

Christian Catalini @ccatalini

Frontier labs argue distillation threatens R&D and US national security. Open-weights proponents counter that diffusion is essential to competition and innovation. Both believe theirs is the only safe path. Luckily, the economics is loyal to neither.

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• Nicole Orsak (prev Uber, Stanford) and Rugi (prev Amazon, NVIDIA) are building Tenera (backed by a16z speedrun) to predict how users react to software before you ship it. They’re hiring a Founding Engineer (SF) right now to own features end to end across agent infrastructure, backend, and frontend. Apply here!

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Build 0 → 1

Accelerate the growth of a Series A, B, or C startup with early momentum.

• Vals AI just announced a $40M Series A led by a16z, bringing total funding to $45M+, to build the evaluation infrastructure for models and agents. They’re hiring a Head of Research (SF) to set the standards for how AI performance gets measured, from legal contract review and underwriting to healthcare. Apply here!

  

  Vals AI@ValsAI

  Today we're announcing our $40M Series A at a $400M valuation, led by @a16z , with participation from existing investors @8vc, @pearvc, and @BloombergBeta and new investors @HRTVentures and @nextladder. Alongside the fundraise, three more announcements: - Vals Smith: is now

  

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• Chris Ellis (prev MIT) and Adam Stevenson (prev Stripe) are building Thatch to give companies a more personalized way to provide healthcare. They’re hiring a Video Creative for up to $193K to run everything from performance ads to product launches, customer stories, and brand. Apply here!

• Michael Lingelbach (Stanford AI PhD) is building Hedra to create expressive AI-generated characters and videos. He’s hiring a Head of Marketing (SF) to own the growth engine - from brand and positioning to developer acquisition, demand gen, and running every launch. Apply here!

• Jean-Denis Grèze (prev CTO of Plaid) and Tony Vincent (prev Google AI) raised a $55M Series A for Town, a personal AI assistant that learns how you work and proactively helps across your tools. They’re hiring an AI Product Engineer (SF or NYC) to rethink everyday products like email, calendar, and contacts for an AI-native world. Apply here!

• Eve is hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager for up to $270K to help bring their AI operating system for plaintiff law to more of the industry. Apply here!

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Build 1 → beyond

Join a growth-stage startup scaling to its next horizon.

• ElevenLabs has 300+ open roles right now globally across engineering, product, growth, operations, research, and revenue. Two standout roles are Growth Marketer, Consumer and Creative Producer (remote). Apply here!

  

  Jack McDermott@Jackmc

  We’ve redesigned the careers page at @ElevenLabs with 300+ open roles globally. And I’m now hiring two pivotal roles on our Growth team: • Growth Marketer, Consumer - someone exceptional at growing consumer products through paid, organic, and partnerships • Creative

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• Harvey is hiring a Head of Customer Learning for up to $276K to help teach people how to work with AI - building the programs, content, and onboarding that help legal teams actually adopt Harvey at scale. Apply here!

• Function Health is hiring an Operations Manager, Member Experience to own the VIP + influencer experience and build the systems and AI automations that help its imaging experience feel seamless as it scales. Apply here!

• Replit recently raised $400M at a $9B valuation to help anyone to build software with AI. They’re hiring a Brand Copy Lead for up to $220K to shape how Replit sounds across campaigns, marketing, and the product. Apply here!

• Cursor was just acquired by SpaceX and is hiring a GTM, Emerging Products (NYC or SF) to work 0→1 on (stealth) new products. Apply here!

  

  a16z@a16z

  RT @cursor_ai: Cursor is now part of @SpaceX. Today, we have officially closed our acquisition. We will join the @SpaceXAI team to help m…

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• SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.6 yesterday and Grok Bot two days ago. They’re now hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Grok Product for up to $440K (Palo Alto, CA) to build the user-facing Grok experience. Apply here!

  

  a16z@a16z

  Introducing Grok Bot

  

  

  Grok Bot @bot

  Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.

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