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Coastal Recruiting - Hot Startups Hiring in SF + NYC, Oct 13

Hottest startups in SF + NYC; Agentic Finance Hackathon w/Ribbit Capital + Bridge

David here, Co-Founder of Coastal Recruiting —a boutique group that helps top founders build their early engineering teams in NYC, SF, and remotely across the stack. Our startups are backed by the best VC’s in the game and our founders have focus, know how to execute, and have fun long the way.

In addition to the first-look at some of the hottest startups hiring in NYC + SF, Coastal Recruiting routinely provides our engineering network access to unique opportunities like advising startups on AI strategy and exclusive hackathons.

Coastal Recruiting is partnering with Ribbit , Bridge, Solana and more to host a Hacking Dollars — a hackathon Agentic Finance in San Francisco on Nov 1st + 2nd. Peep the details below (including the registration link) if interested:

  • Topic: Agentic Finance — This hackathon is a chance to collaborate, innovate, and push the boundaries of what's possible with agents and finance. We will bring together some of the best agent developers and mentors in one space to explore and create.

  • Date: November 1st & 2nd (24 hour hackathon Friday - Saturday)

  • Location: Solana office in SF

  • Judges: Vlad Tenev (Robinhood), Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana), Zach Abrams (Bridge), Micky Malka (Ribbit), and others as confirmed judges / speakers. 

  • Prizes: Warriors Box seats at a game, Solana phone, Robinhood Physical Gold Cards (US only), and more. There will also be bragging rights amongst the best global fintechs 🙂 

  • RSVP HERE

Now - without further ado - check out the 4 startups below who are firing on all cylinders and are assembling world class teams.

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

Bringing Autonomy to Software Engineering - Series A (Sequoia, Lux Capital)

  • Mission/Vision: This startup helps large engineering organizations automate parts of their software development life cycle via autonomous, AI-powered systems.

  • TLDR:

    • 20+ happy enterprise customers

    • Brilliant founders with impeccable track record and grit / hustle to ‘get it done’

    • Legendary Sequoia investor - Shaun Maguire - Led Series A

  • Open Roles:

    • Senior Frontend Engineers

    • Senior Fullstack Engineers

    • Security Engineer

    • Infrastructure Engineer

Multimodal AI - Series A (NVIDIA, NEA, Index)

  • Mission/Vision: This startup is a silicon valley leader in Multimodal AI that understands videos like humans.

  • TLDR:

    • Their state-of-the-art video foundation models create rich video embeddings from video to power downstream tasks such as Search, Generate and Classify.

    • Partners include PineCone, MongoDB, Milvus, and AWS (to name a few…)

    • $80M+ Raised from iconic AI investors

  • Open Roles:

    • Principal ML Engineer

    • Principal Data Infrastructure

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

Simplifying Cloud Complexity - Series A (Sound Ventures, Chapter One)

  • Mission/Vision: This startup is solving cloud complexity by monitoring infrastructure and using AI to automate management, optimize configurations, and tailor solutions to each client's unique needs.

  • TLDR:

    • Their single, automated platform helps enterprises with savings, visibility and infrastructure guardrails across their cloud environment.

    • Strong GTM motion, with $XXM ARR by EoY (wild MoM growth)

    • Chill, relaxed team with 0 ego

  • Open Roles:

    • Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

    • Senior Backend Engineer

    • Senior Infrastructure Lead

GenAI for Financial Institutions - Series A (Khosla)

  • Mission/Vision: This startup is building Generative AI for Financial Institutions.

  • TLDR:

    • Their financial AI platform aggregates the most important financial and customer data into a simple AI chat platform (like ChatGPT), then partners with clients to build their key workflows (e.g. building slide decks, writing investment memos, analyzing financial data).

    • Exceptional GTM Traction: Top Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and PE funds are clients

    • Small team of 25 in NYC

  • Open Roles:

    • Senior Backend Engineers

    • Founding Product Designer

    • Senior Data Engineers

Candidate Testimonial:

I had the pleasure of working with Megan during my hiring process at Lemurian Labs, where I now contribute to AI/ML product development. Megan's exceptional recruiting skills were evident from the very beginning. She guided me through each step with clarity, professionalism, and a genuine commitment to ensuring the best outcome for both myself and Lemurian.

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