a16z jobs newsletter: AI startups from Vals AI to Kaizen are hiring founding teams
round · x · 2026-09-17
a16z's hiring newsletter rounds up open roles: pre-seed/seed founding teams include Vals AI, which benchmarks leading AI models on economically valuable tasks (Founding PM and Head of Partnerships, up to $200K in SF); research lab Banbury Road, betting AI capability grows with the number of models trained together (founding research engineers); and aerospace startup Astro Mechanica (Lead Structures Engineer, up to $220K).
On the growth side, Kaizen, which puts AI into $100M+ healthcare organizations, is hiring a Founding Deployment Strategist to sit between customer and product, building ROI models and writing the deployment playbook.
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