[Coastal Recruiting] Hot Startups Hiring, Nov 17

Welcome to Coastal Recruiting’s weekly recap of T1 startup founders in NYC + SF building their early engineering teams across the stack.

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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 🌉

Multimodal AI - Series A (NEA, NVIDIA)

• Mission/Vision: This startup a 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…)

  • Backed by T1 AI investors

• Open Roles:

  • Staff Applied AI/ML Engineers

  • Staff ML Data Engineers

  • Senior Cloud / Platform Infrastructure Lead

Revolutionizing end-to-end CRM - Seed (Human Capital)

• Mission/Vision: This stealth startup is unifying customer relationship management into a single, AI-driven platform that automates workflows, eliminates data silos, and drives real business outcomes across every customer-facing team.

• TLDR:

  • Founding team are ex-Technical and Revenue leaders from Brex, Clari and Apollo

  • 100+ customers already signed up for initial alpha

  • Founders are building core team to bring product to market next year

• Open Roles:

  • Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineers (Frontend, Backend, Fullstack)

  • Applied AI/ML Engineers

  • Senior Product Designer

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

Autonomous Cyber Defense - Seed (a16z, Nat Friedman)

• 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 Fullstack Engineers (Frontend, Backend, Fullstack)

  • Applied AI/ML Engineers

  • Security Engineers

Unifying Blockchain Data - Series A (Theory Ventures, Kleiner Perkins)

• Mission/Vision: This startup makes data simple on the blockchain. Their mission is to provide the best blockchain data infrastructure for crypto analytics and engineering teams across institutions and funds in the industry.

• TLDR:

  • Strong GTM across institutional investors (web3 & web2), accounting/finance: clients include Visa, Stripe, Bloomberg, Fidelity, Phantom, Magic Eden

  • Small, 10 person engineering team (Founders were previous technical leaders at Primer AI)

• Open Roles:

  • Senior/Staff Backend Engineers

  • Product / Frontend Engineer

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