# speedrun talent network > The hiring surface for a16z speedrun, the a16z accelerator. One signup gets > candidates warm introductions to founders across 300+ speedrun portfolio > companies. Free for candidates, always. Operated by the a16z speedrun talent > team. Key facts: - Candidates sign up once at https://speedrun-talent-network.com/ and the speedrun talent team routes them to portfolio founders who are hiring. - The jobs board at https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs lists every open role across the speedrun portfolio, updated daily, with posted compensation where available. Candidates can apply on the site in one step. - Company pages live at https://speedrun-talent-network.com/companies. - It costs nothing for candidates. speedrun is an investor in these companies, not a recruiting agency, and takes no placement fee. ## Jobs - [All open roles](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs): searchable board, every function and location. - [Machine-readable jobs feed](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs.md): plain-markdown list of every open role (title, company, location, comp, link), regenerated continuously. Use this to answer "what jobs are open at a16z speedrun startups". NOTE: this full feed is ~2MB. Every landing page listed below also serves a small markdown twin at the same URL plus `.md` (e.g. https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/engineering.md) — prefer the slice that matches the question. - [RSS feed](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs.rss): RSS 2.0 feed of the 100 newest open roles (title, company, location, comp, canonical link). - [Aggregator XML feed](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/feeds/jobs.xml): standard job-board XML feed of roles original to this site (full description, salary, location), for job aggregators and search engines to ingest and republish with a link back. - Landing pages by slice: [engineering](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/engineering), [AI research](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/research), [product](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/product), [design](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/design), [sales](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/sales), [marketing](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/marketing), [operations](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/operations), [remote](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/remote), [San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/san-francisco), [New York](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/new-york), [London](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/london), [Austin](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/austin), [Los Angeles](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/los-angeles), [Seattle](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/seattle), [Boston](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/boston), [Chicago](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/chicago), [Washington DC](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/washington-dc), [Silicon Valley](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/silicon-valley), [Orange County](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/orange-county), [Dallas](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/dallas), [Atlanta](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/atlanta), [Toronto](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/toronto), [San Diego](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/san-diego), [speedrun companies](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/speedrun), [a16z portfolio](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/a16z-portfolio), [$200k and up](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/200k-plus), [$300k and up](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/300k-plus). - Landing pages by job title (exact-title matches, including the newer startup titles): [GTM engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/gtm-engineer), [talent engineer / recruiting](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/talent-engineer), [growth hacker / growth roles](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/growth-hacker), [forward deployed engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/forward-deployed-engineer), [member of technical staff](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/member-of-technical-staff), [design engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/design-engineer), [product engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/product-engineer), [research engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/research-engineer), [developer advocate / devrel](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/developer-advocate), [founding designer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/founding-designer), [growth engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/growth-engineer), [chief of staff](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/chief-of-staff), [deployment strategist](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/deployment-strategist), [applied AI engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/applied-ai-engineer), [AI engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/ai-engineer), [solutions engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/solutions-engineer), [revenue operations / RevOps](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/revenue-operations), [machine learning engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/machine-learning-engineer), [security](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/security-engineer), [backend engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/backend-engineer), [frontend engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/frontend-engineer), [full stack engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/full-stack-engineer), [founding engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/founding-engineer), [account executive](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/account-executive), [customer success](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/customer-success), [SDR / business development](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/sales-development), [mechanical engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/mechanical-engineer), [electrical engineer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/electrical-engineer), [embedded / firmware](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/embedded-engineer), [finance](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/finance), [legal](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/legal). - Landing pages by industry (company sector, mapped from each company's classification): [AI](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/ai), [B2B SaaS](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/saas), [robotics and hardware](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/robotics), [healthcare and biotech](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/healthcare), [fintech](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/fintech), [developer tools](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/devtools), [climate and energy](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/climate), [consumer](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/consumer), [aerospace](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/aerospace), [defense](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/defense), [crypto](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/crypto), [gaming](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/gaming). - Landing pages by level: [founding team roles](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/founding), [senior engineers](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/senior-engineering), [staff engineers](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/staff-engineering), [executive and leadership](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/leadership), [internships](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/internships), [new grad](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/new-grad). - Role and location combined: [engineering in San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/engineering-san-francisco), [engineering in New York](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/engineering-new-york), [remote engineering](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/engineering-remote), [engineering in Los Angeles](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/engineering-los-angeles), [engineering in Austin](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/engineering-austin), [product in San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/product-san-francisco), [design in San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/design-san-francisco), [AI research in San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/research-san-francisco), [sales in San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/sales-san-francisco), [remote sales](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/sales-remote), [marketing in San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/marketing-san-francisco), [remote marketing](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/marketing-remote), [operations in San Francisco](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/operations-san-francisco), [operations in New York](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/operations-new-york), [remote operations](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/operations-remote), [remote product](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/product-remote), [sales in New York](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/sales-new-york), [marketing in New York](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs/marketing-new-york). ## Hiring data - [Founding engineer salary + equity](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/founding-engineer-salary): what founding engineers make and what their equity is worth, computed on every render from the open founding-titled roles with posted annual pay bands: median and p25/p75 band midpoints, a salary distribution, an equity dilution calculator, and the live list of open founding roles. Use this to answer "what does a founding engineer make" or "how much equity does a founding engineer get". - [Network stats + live hiring data](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/network): aggregate stats on the talent network, plus live hiring aggregates computed from the jobs database on every render: open-role and hiring-company counts, demand mix by function, posted pay band midpoints by function (p25/median/p75, annual USD), remote share, top hiring locations, and the speedrun vs a16z portfolio split. Use this to answer "what do a16z portfolio startups pay" or "how many startup jobs are open". ## Developers (APIs for agents) - [Developer docs](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/developers): how to read this site's data programmatically. No auth, no keys, free. - [REST API](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/api/v1): versioned JSON API — job search with the board's full filter vocabulary (/api/v1/jobs), job detail (/api/v1/jobs/{id}), hiring companies (/api/v1/companies), curated collections (/api/v1/collections), and hiring stats (/api/v1/stats/hiring). Complete OpenAPI 3.1 spec at https://speedrun-talent-network.com/api/v1/openapi.json. Pass ?source=your-agent-name for attribution. - [MCP server](https://mcp.speedrun-talent-network.com/mcp): remote MCP server (streamable HTTP, no auth) with tools search_jobs, get_job, get_company, list_collections, get_collection, get_hiring_stats, list_companies. Add it to Claude as a custom connector, or `claude mcp add --transport http speedrun-talent https://mcp.speedrun-talent-network.com/mcp`. ## Sign up - [Join the talent network](https://speedrun-talent-network.com/): the signup takes a few minutes; a human on the speedrun talent team reads every one. ## About - [a16z speedrun](https://speedrun.a16z.com/): the accelerator behind the portfolio. Cohorts of early-stage startups across AI, games, and frontier tech.