Side projects > everything else (says ByteDance’s Zara Zhang)
Plus, internships + more proof entry-level ain’t dead
GM Kings & Queens,
It’s AI week at job hunting sux. Why? Because it’s AI week every week of 2025!
Table of contents:
A look at one of the best gen AI video startups
200+ open jobs at AI companies (you don’t have to be an engineer to play)
8 internships / entry-level jobs
Required reading for AI nerds
Taylor Swift’s AI scavenger hunt
Company spotlight: Pika
Reality is optional, says Pika.
The AI video creation platform, with a total backing of $135 million, founded by Stanford AI lab dropouts Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, is making some of the most impressive gen AI video tools around. Check out their charming product video to see what I’m talking about.
They’re hiring across research, engineering, and creative, including part-time content creators.
Open jobs
Heidi, the AI platform for automating healthcare admin and ops, has SIXTY-FIVE OPEN JOBS. This company has everything: marketing to sales, engineering, product, design, customer success—you name it—located around the world.
Sierra, the conversational AI for business, has SIXTEEN open jobs at its SF office, including a social media lead, technical recruiter, and enterprise AEs. Lots to see here.
Our friends at Phaze - led by previously exited founder Benjy Boxer - are building next-generation remote desktop software that makes high-performance computing accessible from anywhere. Their platform lets creatives and engineers use top-tier workstations in the cloud with near-local performance. They are hiring 3 engineers (frontend, backend, networking) to work with their NY-based team.
🚨 (REMOTE) - DeepJudge, the AI platform for lawyers to leverage internal smarts and automate lawyerly workflows, is hiring in Zurich, Switzerland, and in the US and Canada. North American jobs are REMOTE.
Sovereign end-to-end AI platform webAI has ELEVEN open roles across engineering, R&D, and product.
Letta is “building the AI Operating System to turn stateless models into perpetual and self-improving intelligence.” 🤯 They’re hiring technical staff at their SF office.
Prime Intellect, which wants to democratize AI development at scale, has FOURTEEN open jobs, including an internship: They want “exceptional interns who’ve already built real systems, contributed to open-source, or gone deep across technical domains.” They also have an open call for unconventional talent.
Sitch - an AI-powered dating app co-founded by Chad DePue, and Nandini Mullaji (Stanford GSB), who recently appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show to talk about blending technology with her family’s matchmaking roots - is building an AI-powered matchmaker. Backed by top investors (including a16z speedrun!), Sitch is hiring a Founding Product Manager and City Partnerships Manager in NYC to help reimagine how people find love
Parallel (founded by former CEO/CTO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal) makes AI that’s crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieving, and reasoning with systems. They need talent in engineering, people, and product.
Netic, the AI platform that powers small business growth, has SIXTEEN open jobs, including four for new grads, in their SF offices.
Nous Research is on a mission to democratize the world’s best intel with open-source, humanistic AI. They need ML engineers, a research scientist, and a general counsel. Email your resume, cover letter, and portfolio to recruiting@nousresearch.com. Put the name of the role you’re applying to in the subject line.
Physical Intelligence is building general-purpose AI to power physical objects. They’re hiring across engineering, creative, ops, logistics, and more. They’re even looking for interns.
Moonlake, the vibe coder for interactive worlds, needs technical staffers and a head of operations at its San Mateo, CA, office. For the head of ops, they need someone who’s set up or run finance/HR stacks at an early-stage startup.
AI production engineer Resolve AI (from the creators of OpenTelemetry and researchers from Google DeepMind) needs a bunch of new people at its SF office, including engineers, salespeople, and social media wizards.
The financial crime–fighting AI agent Greenlite needs folks across engineering, deployments, and GTM at its downtown SF office.
Yutori is building an AI chief of staff for everyone. You too, friends. They need engineers, a brand designer, and an AI intern (experience with post-training multimodal LLMs (CPT, SFT, RL, search, reward models) is a plus, but not necessary.)
Naveen Rao (ex head of AI @ Databricks) is hiring for his new startup Unconventional, Inc. DM him on X or email jobs@unconv.ai
🚨 (REMOTE) - AI thought partner mem needs a REMOTE founding product marketer and a REMOTE senior fullstack product engineer to work West Coast hours.
Toby Talks (expert advice on landing that next j.o.b.)
ByteDance’s Zara Zhang on getting a job in AI: It’s all about side projects.
🔥AI investment by the numbers🔥
VCs are super hot for AI right now. According to a story from TechCrunch:
VCs poured $192.7 billion into AI so far this year, out of a total $366.8 billion
Last quarter, AI accounted for 62.7% of $$ invested by VCs in the US, and 53.2% of money invested globally
Required reading for those worried about AI stealing jobs
In case the internships/entry-level jobs above aren’t enough to convince you, here’s more proof that AI isn’t killing entry level jobs:
A new report from Yale’s Budget Lab and the Brookings Institution found that all the screeching about AI killing all y’all’s job prospects just isn’t a thing.
Michelle Vaz, managing director at AWS training and certifications says AI isn’t killing entry-level, just redefining it.
Oh, and Taylor Swift fans are accusing her of using AI in her scavenger hunt videos. But maybe we should be asking ourselves why we’re letting T Swift send us on scavenger hunts. Did Google need traffic or something?
Adios, amigos!
Jordan