The speedrun talent network so far.
Builders, designers, researchers, and operators who told us they want to work on early-stage software. A speedrun partner reads every signup. Hundreds of placements across the portfolio so far.
What they do
Many members span more than one craft, so the mix sums past 100%.
Who's in the network
Tap a craft to see where those members have worked and studied.
Where they've worked
Amazon 6,361+ 
Google 3,858+ 
Microsoft 3,582+ 
Meta 3,059+ 
Apple 1,875+ 
IBM 1,724+ 
JPMorgan 1,359+ 
Electronic Arts 1,123+ 
Goldman Sachs 1,086+ 
Oracle 1,023+ 
Riot Games 929+ 
Uber 918+ Where they studied
UC Berkeley 3,709+ 
Stanford 2,578+ 
Harvard 2,544+ 
NYU 2,522+ 
USC 2,278+ 
Columbia 2,198+ 
UPenn 1,847+ 
UCLA 1,744+ 
Georgia Tech 1,723+ 
Northeastern 1,660+ 
UIUC 1,605+ 
Cornell 1,551+ Hiring across the portfolio
Live aggregates from the jobs board, computed from the jobs database on every render. Counts move as companies open and close roles.
Demand by function
Share of the 23,085 live roles, by function.
Posted pay by function
Midpoints of posted pay bands (annual USD). Bar length tracks the median; only functions with 15 or more posted bands are shown.
Top hiring locations
Cities with the most live roles. Remote roles are counted separately above.
Portfolio split
The board spans speedrun companies and the wider a16z portfolio.
Common questions
23,085 live roles across 781 portfolio companies, synced continuously from each company's live job board. Browse them all at https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs.
2,110 of the 23,085 live roles (9%) are open to remote candidates.
Across the 2,074 engineering roles with a posted pay band, the median band midpoint is $204k per year, and the middle half of roles fall between $168k and $250k (annual USD, computed from posted ranges only).
Engineering leads with 8,373 open roles (36% of the board), followed by operations (4,206) and sales (1,364).
Methodology: aggregates over roles currently listed on the jobs board. Pay figures use the midpoint of each posted range, annual USD only, and are shown per function, never per company. Machine-readable feeds: jobs.md and jobs.rss.
Network-wide figures as of 2026-11-03; counts are anonymized lower-bound aggregates, so they read as minimums. No names, emails, or links to individuals.