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Welcome to the first-ever Sunday drop. You're either meal prepping, doom-scrolling, or quietly wondering if there's something better out there. (Spoiler: there is.)
This edition features 6 new opportunities—including an AI model gateway that's already cash-flow positive, autonomous cybersecurity agents, and an industrial AI startup that signed a major auto manufacturer after a 2-week demo.
The weekend is when the best candidates actually have time to think. So here you go.
🔥 Sunday Hot Seat 🔥
Universal AI Model Gateway | The Stripe of Generative AI
This Startup is building the universal API gateway for large language models—the Stripe or Plaid of generative AI. Their platform lets developers access, compare, and route prompts to dozens of foundation models through a single API. Founded by the co-founder of a leading NFT marketplace, they've quietly become the infrastructure layer powering a massive wave of AI development.
🏙️ Location: Remote (USA)
💰 Comp: $180K–$255K
🚀 Stage: Series A, $40M
🏦 Backers: Menlo Ventures, a16z
The Opportunity: This Startup owns the routing and orchestration layer for LLMs—letting developers switch between Claude, Llama, Mistral, and more without rewriting a single line of code. They're already profitable and growing fast.
Why This Matters:
✅ Over 2 million developers on the platform
✅ >$100M platform spend run rate—and already cash flow positive
✅ Backed by Menlo Ventures and a16z at Series A
✅ Fully remote with quarterly company on-sites
✅ Tech stack: TypeScript, GCP, Cloudflare—working across the full stack
Roles: Sr. Full-Stack, Sr. Backend, Staff Backend, Staff SWE
📰 News From Our Network 📰
⁉️ What's happening: Outtake, the AI security startup led by an ex-Palantir engineer, just closed a monster round with angel checks from the Microsoft CEO, a hedge fund titan, and Palo Alto Networks' CEO. ARR up 6x YoY. Digital trust in the AI era is officially a category.
⁉️ What's happening: Concourse, the AI agent platform for finance teams, just got a big vote of confidence from Standard Capital, a16z, CRV, and Y Combinator. The company grew revenue 19x in the past 12 months and is now deployed at major cybersecurity and customer ops platforms. Finance automation has arrived.
⁉️ What's happening: Snowflake launched its new Energy Solutions suite, and Hightouch is a key partner helping oil & gas, power, and utilities companies unify data across IT, OT, and IoT systems. The energy sector's AI transformation is picking up steam.
🚀 Fresh Opportunities 🚀
🎯 Physical AI Engineering | AI, Engineering
📍 San Mateo / Remote | 💵 $200K–$300K | 🚀 Seed, $23M
This Startup is building Engineering AGI for physical systems—an AI agent that automates the cognitive work human engineers do when designing everything from data centers to aircraft. Founded by former Airbus CTO and DARPA executive. Backed by Radical Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Schematic Ventures, and Village Global.
Roles: AI/ML, Sr. Backend, FDE, Research Engineer
🎯 Autonomous Cybersecurity AI | AI, Cybersecurity
📍 SF & NYC | 💵 $200K–$300K | 🚀 Series A, $11M
This Startup deploys AI agents that autonomously secure enterprise organizations—think "AI Taskforce" for vulnerability management. Early customers seeing 70% reductions in time to fix critical issues. Backed by Greylock and Bain Capital Ventures.
Roles: Sr. Backend, Sr. Full-Stack, Sr. Frontend, Staff SWE
🎯 Enterprise Workflow Automation | AI, Healthcare
📍 San Mateo & NYC | 💵 $200K–$300K | 🚀 Series B, $52M
This Startup automates mission-critical business processes for the world's largest health systems—turning multi-step manual workflows into reliable automated pipelines. Backed by General Catalyst, Craft Ventures, Peak XV (Sequoia India), and Y Combinator.
Roles: Sr. Backend, Sr. Full-Stack, AI/ML
🎯 AI Consumer Research Platform | AI, SaaS
📍 NYC | 💵 $200K–$300K | 🚀 Series A, $16.1M
This Startup is the AI-native consumer research platform used by 75+ Fortune 1000 brands. They've grown 5x YoY and added 33 Fortune 500 customers in 2025 alone. Backed by GFT Ventures and Sound Ventures.
Roles: Sr. Full-Stack, Sr. Backend, Staff SWE, Sr. Frontend
🎯 AI Agent Infrastructure | AI, DevToolin
📍 SF | 💵 $180K–$260K | 🚀 Seed, $7M
This Startup builds AI agent infrastructure for SRE and engineering workflows. Enterprise customers include a major gaming platform, compliance software leaders, and a design tool unicorn. ARR growing 2x every month. Founded by an early Databricks engineer who led AI initiatives to $300M+ revenue, and a 2x founder who owned cloud infrastructure at Pokémon GO. Backed by Accel, SV Angel, Afore, and Kearny Jackson.
Roles: Sr. Backend, Sr. Full-Stack, Staff SWE, AI/ML
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⏰ Last Call for This Week ⏰
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