Coastal Recruiting - Hot Startups Hiring, Dec 5

Welcome to Coastal Recruiting’s weekly ‘Hot Startups Hiring’ newsletter!

For those new, Coastal Recruiting is a boutique firm helping top techcnial talent in NYC and SF land jobs at at T1 Venture-backed startups - working with founders backed by a16z, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Lux Capital, and more..

Each week we highlight select startups across AI/ML, health-tech, financial services (to name a few) building their eng teams across Seed, Series A and Series B.

2025 is gearing up to be an exciting year for the early-stage startup ecosystem, and now is the perfect time to start interviewing for job changes in the new year. Grab time below or respond to this email to learn about the early-stage startup hiring landscape in New York and San Francisco.

What you can expect when working with us:

• Understand your career goals + motivations ✅

• Introduce you to founders + startups that align with your goals ✅

• Coach you on the interview process, each step of the way ✅

• Assist with all aspects of interviewing, from offer —> negotiation ✅

Why Coastal? We’re a small, but mighty team with 25+ combined years helping early-stage startups build engineering teams. We only partner with startups we’d want to work with ourselves, backed by T1 investors, have strong commercial momentum, and pass the ‘vibe’ test.

Not looking, but have a friend searching for their next early stage venture? Let me know!

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

AI Generated Video - Series A (Sequoia, Y Combinator)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is building the human layer of AI.

• TLDR:

  • Their and APIs power everything from text-to-video AI avatars to real-time conversational video experiences

  • Strong team of applied AI/ML engineers, researchers and scientists

  • Backed by leading AI/ML investors

• Open Roles:

  • Head of ML

  • Applied AI/ML Engineers

  • Research Scientists

Leader in Developer Documentation - Series A (a16z, Y Combinator)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is building the modern standard for public facing documentation.

• TLDR:

  • #1 YC product used by YC companies for past 4 years

  • Massive enterprise customers like Zapier, Anthropic, Fidelity and Pinecone

  • Brilliant founders with contagious energy

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Fullstack Engineers

  • Senior Backend Engineers

  • Senior Frontend Engineers

AI Cloning - Series A (Sequoia, Founders Fund, Lux Capital)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is building the modern standard for public facing documentation.

• TLDR:

  • They are building a new medium of knowledge exchange that enables anyone to create digital representations of their mind with infinite scaleability.

  • High-conviction, visionary founders with previous exits under their belt

  • $0-1M ARR with 0 marketing

• Open Roles:

  • Infrastructure Lead

  • AI/ML Engineers

  • Senior Fullstack Engineers

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

AI CMO - Seed (Founders Fund)

• Mission/Vision: This startup helps brands get winning ads with AI (the ‘AI CMO’)

• TLDR:

  • Their AI platform helps brands generate and run ads on all channels optimally

  • Large customers, generating $55K/month in rev since launch

  • Team is 9 people (4 dropouts, 2 ex-CTOs). Founder founded Skio ($13M ARR in 3 years & profitable)

• Open Roles:

  • Founding Engineer (Fullstack)

  • Founding Research Engineer

Revolutionizing Global Money Movement - Series A (Sequoia, Pantera)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is revolutionizing how money is moved around the world.

• TLDR:

  • Their product is the combination of Stripe and Venmo, with the goal of replacing wire transfers globally - allowing money to move faster and cheaper.

  • Insane product adoption (1K+ users joining every 2 days)

  • Ground–floor opportunity to build alongside leaders from Goldman, Citadel and SIG

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Fullstack Engineers

  • Senior Backend Engineers

  • Security Engineers

  • React Engineers

  • Cryptography Engineers

Autonomous Cyber Defense - Series A (a16z, Nat Friedman + Daniel Gross)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is arming critical enterprises with autonomous cyber defenses.

• TLDR:

  • Their security platform combines data fusion and expert autonomy to deliver results to critical enterprises, augmenting their team at every level

  • Actively deployed at Fortune 100 customers, US Space Force and the US Navy

  • Technical team of alumni from Palantir, Shield AI, CrowdStrike, and the US Government

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Frontend Engineers

  • Senior Fullstack Engineers

  • Security Engineers

  • AI/ML Engineers

Remote-First Opportunity 🌎

Leading L1 Blockchain - Series B (a16z Crypto, Jump Crypto, Lightspeed)

• Mission/Vision: Leading L1 blockchain creating infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

• TLDR:

  • Founding-team highly regarded in the web3 space as true thought leaders, coming from Meta

  • Globally remote company and work culture

  • T1 investors (a16z, Paradigm, Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue)

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Staff Frontend Engineer

  • Senior Data Platform Engineer (Blockchain Data)

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