Startups hiring in SF and the Bay Area (2026)

Applied Intuition

Sunnyvale, US · Series F

Applied Intuition delivers the toolchain, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks to help customers build intelligent vehicles and shorten time to market. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy.

281 open roles1% remote

Zipline

South San Francisco, US · Series H

Zipline designs, manufactures and operates the world's largest automated delivery system using autonomous drones.

202 open roles15% remote

Atoms

Los Angeles, US

Atoms builds specialized industrial robots for food service, mining, and transport. The company develops a standardized mobility platform called a "wheelbase for robots" that can be outfitted for specific industrial tasks.

271 open roles0% remote

Astranis

San Francisco, US · Series E · YC W16

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, with its first product MicroGEO offering dedicated satellite broadband. The company designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its headquarters in Northern California.

155 open roles1% remote

Verkada

San Mateo, US · Series E

Verkada builds AI-powered physical security solutions that integrate behind a single, cloud-based software platform. Its platform spans video security, access control, alarms, intercoms, air quality sensors, and visitor management.

285 open roles37% remote

Crusoe

Denver, US · Series E

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack from electrons to tokens. It provides Crusoe Cloud, an Infrastructure as a Service platform equipped with specialized GPUs for resource-intensive AI workloads. The company also builds AI-optimized data centers and harnesses large-scale energy resources to power its infrastructure.

221 open roles1% remote

Clera

San Francisco, US · Pre Seed

Clera is an AI talent agent that matches candidates with startup roles based on their goals, skills, and preferences. It provides personalized introductions, curated job opportunities, and guidance throughout the application and interview process.

295 open roles21% remote

Muon Space

Mountain View, US · Series B

Muon Space delivers critical data and enables real-time compute and decision-making in space.

117 open roles30% remote

Harvey

San Francisco, US

Harvey provides domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. Its products streamline workflows in contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation.

250 open roles5% remote

Nuro

Mountain View, US · Series E

The company licenses this technology to automakers and mobility providers for applications such as robotaxis, personally owned vehicles, and goods delivery.

91 open roles0% remote

Fluidstack

New York City, US · Series A

Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. It acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them. The company delivers dedicated, single-tenant GPU clusters with NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, and GB200 GPUs for AI training and inference workloads.

113 open roles14% remote

Perplexity

San Francisco, US · Late Stage Venture

Perplexity AI is a conversational search engine that uses large language models (LLMs) to provide direct answers to search queries, complete with source citations.

107 open roles16% remote