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Early stage startups hiring now
The early stage startups hiring the most right now are Aptivio, toast and Clera. 52% of their open roles are in engineering. 10% of these companies hire mostly remote. Most are based in San Francisco, New York City and Palo Alto. Every role here comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.
52%
of roles in engineering
8%
of roles in ai and ml
7%
of roles in data
7%
of roles in sales and gtm
5%
of roles in marketing
Companies
Who is hiring
Aptivio
New York City, US · Series A
Aptivio's AI-powered revenue growth engine connects billions of data points to reflect the buyer intent of opportunities. The platform identifies sales-ready accounts using real buyer intent signals and automates network-based outreach to scale revenue growth.
363 open roles15% remote
toast
New York City, US · Seed
Toast licenses real-time multiplayer skill games designed specifically for iGaming operators. Its games are classified as skill-based in almost all states.
303 open roles16% 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
Vast
Long Beach, US · Series A
Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach. Haven Demo's 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft.
120 open roles1% remote
Wonderful
Amsterdam, NL · Series B
Wonderful helps large enterprises accelerate AI adoption, combining a multi-model AI platform with local deployment teams. The company deploys production-grade AI agents for enterprises across telecoms, financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare.
119 open roles5% remote
Chaos
Los Angeles, US · Series D
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. Its flagship platform, HYDRA, harnesses the CDN framework to deliver software-defined multi-domain capabilities across land, sea, and air environments while integrating with existing infrastructure under constrained conditions.
112 open roles2% remote
Distro
Palo Alto, US
Distro is the all-in-one AI-powered sales platform for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors.
105 open roles7% remote
Etched
San Jose, US
The company co-designs chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver high-throughput, low-latency inference for both prefill and decode workloads. Its products are sold as full rack-scale systems, not just chips.
98 open roles2% remote
Lila Sciences
Cambridge, US · Series A
Lila Sciences develops a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous laboratories for life, chemical, and materials sciences. Its AI-driven system generates hypotheses, designs and runs experiments, and learns from outcomes in real time.
87 open roles0% remote
E-Space
Arlington, US
The company's primary offering is the E-Space LEO platform, a system that uses Artificial Intelligence (AIoT) to optimize data sent from these devices, delivering actionable insights and automation that surpasses traditional Internet of Things (IoT) sensing and tracking capabilities. E-Space.com is a startup that operates in the space technology sector, specifically focusing on the deployment of small, easy-to-install devices that can be tracked and connected from anywhere on Earth.
82 open roles0% remote
Humanoid
London, GB
Humanoid’s first robot, HMND 01, is a labor automation unit designed for tasks such as goods handling, picking, packing, and kitting in sectors like retail, manufacturing, and logistics.
81 open roles5% remote
DualEntry
New York City, US · Series A
DualEntry is an AI-native ERP that automates accounting from data entry to close. Its AI features include automated bank matching, reconciliation, anomaly detection, and flux commentary.
75 open roles17% remote
fonio
AT · Seed
fonio’s platform enables businesses to deploy AI voice agents that answer calls, qualify leads, schedule appointments, and integrate with CRMs and calendars.
74 open roles9% remote
Talentpluto
New York, US · Seed
Pluto is an AI voice agent that learns a professional's story in a 10 minute conversation, including what they have done, what they are great at, what they want next, and what should stay private. Pluto makes that context discoverable to the right people and AI agents, helping them understand the professional more fully.
73 open roles4% remote
EverAI
Santa Venera, MT
EverAI's flagship product is the world's largest AI companionship platform. It is governed by a proprietary moderation system, EverGuard, designed to ensure safety and ethics.
72 open roles100% remote
Inversion
Vista, US · Series A
Inversion builds advanced reentry vehicles for next-generation defense capabilities. Its vehicles are designed to deploy to anywhere on Earth in under an hour, operating through extreme reentry conditions and landing with high precision.
68 open roles0% remote
Radiant
El Segundo, US
Radiant is building the world's first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. The company's first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1-megawatt, fail-safe microreactor that can be transported anywhere power is needed and run for up to 5 years without refueling.
67 open roles15% remote
Slate Auto
troy, US · Series C
Slate Auto develops a customizable electric pickup truck. Customers can adapt the vehicle with accessories or convert it into an SUV.
60 open roles90% remote
Antares
Los Angeles, US · Series C
Antares builds compact nuclear microreactors to deliver reliable, mobile energy for remote military bases, austere industrial sites, and deep space and underwater missions. The company designs and manufactures transportable nuclear fission microreactors for strategic energy applications on Earth, in space, and underwater.
58 open roles0% remote
Tandem Health
Stockholm, SE · Series A
Tandem Health builds an AI medical assistant that listens during patient consultations and automatically generates structured clinical notes.
57 open roles16% remote
Firmus
St Leonards, AU
Firmus’ large-scale GPU cloud platform, Firmus AI Cloud, delivers energy-efficient AI compute for training and deploying AI models.
54 open roles0% remote
Bedrock Robotics Inc
San Francisco, US · Series B
Bedrock Robotics develops autonomous systems for heavy construction machinery. The company upgrades customers' existing heavy equipment fleets with reversible hardware and software installs to enable fully autonomous operations.
48 open roles6% remote
Firestorm
San Diego, US · Series A
Firestorm develops modular, open-system unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for the defense sector. Its core product is the Tempest, a 55-pound unmanned aircraft that can carry 10 pounds of military payloads.
48 open roles4% remote
Tutor Intelligence
Watertown, US · Series A
Tutor Intelligence offers AI-powered robotic automation solutions for manufacturing, warehousing, and packaging operations. The company provides “robots as a service”, leasing robotics hardware and software via an hourly usage model instead of a capital-intensive purchase.
48 open roles17% remote
Mecka
Markham, CA · Series A
Mecka AI builds the data and deployment infrastructure for embodied intelligence. It collects, curates, and licenses robotics training data to AI labs and deploys robotic systems with enterprise customers.
47 open roles2% remote
Lexroom
Milan, IT · Series B
Lexroom is an AI platform for legal professionals that supports legal research, document analysis, and drafting of legal materials. It provides document analysis capabilities that extract clauses, compare texts, and identify key legal elements across contracts and filings.
46 open roles2% remote
Skild AI
Pittsburgh, US · Series C
Skild AI builds a unified, omni-bodied AI foundation model called Skild Brain that can control any robot for any task.
44 open roles
TENEX.AI
Sarasota, US · Series B
TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider.
43 open roles51% remote
Avelios Medical
Munich, DE · Series A
Avelios Medical offers a modular software platform that digitizes and optimizes workflows in hospitals. The software generates fully structured treatment data, enabling data-driven research and the development of AI algorithms.
42 open roles2% remote
Heron Power
Scotts Valley, US · Series B
Heron Power develops industrial power electronics purpose-built for the 21st-century grid.
41 open roles0% remote
Open roles
Newest roles at these startups
Antares
Los Angeles
Senior-Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Assembly & Integration
Los Angeles
$140k–$225k
1d ago
Chaos
El Segundo, California, United States
FP&A Analyst
El Segundo, California, United States
—
1d ago
Vast
Long Beach, California, United States
Senior Network Automation Engineer
Long Beach, California, United States
$131k–$186k
1d ago
Clera
San Francisco
Performance Marketer, Paid Growth (Consumer Apps)
San Francisco
—
1d ago
Firestorm
Rome, United States
Senior Integrations Engineer
Rome, United States
$116k–$167k
1d ago
Distro
Multiple Locations
Outside Sales Representative
Multiple Locations
$50k–$150k
1d ago
toast
Remote, US
Staff Engineer, Cloud Security
Remote, US
$151k–$309k
1d ago
toast
Toronto, Canada
Business Development Representative - International (CAN)
Toronto, Canada
$65k–$104k
1d ago
What early stage startups build
Small teams at the beginning, where the work is still being defined. Aptivio: Aptivio's AI-powered revenue growth engine connects billions of data points to reflect the buyer intent of opportunities. The platform identifies sales-ready accounts using real buyer intent signals and automates network-based outreach to scale revenue growth. toast: Toast licenses real-time multiplayer skill games designed specifically for iGaming operators. Its games are classified as skill-based in almost all states. Clera: 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.
The roles they hire for
Across the roles open today, the mix is engineering (52%), ai and ml (8%), data (7%), sales and gtm (7%) and marketing (5%). Engineering roles here often ask for hands-on work with the product's hardest part, so a portfolio or a shipped project counts for more than a long resume.
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Frequently asked
Which early stage startups are hiring the most?
Right now: Aptivio, toast, Clera, Vast and Wonderful. The list above ranks every company by the roles it has open today.
Do early stage startups hire remotely?
10% of the companies here hire mostly remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.
What roles do early stage startups hire for?
The most common are engineering, ai and ml and data.
Can landed apply to early stage startups for me?
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