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a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship is an 8-week cohort announced by @david__booth on…

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a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship is an 8-week cohort announced by @david__booth on 2026-06-18 for practitioners 'building the next operating system for recruiting.' The inaugural cohort lists 14 named talent-engineering and recruiting-systems practitioners from companies including xAI, Fonzi AI, Airbnb, Anthropic, Zapier, Wellfound, Paraform and Cursor. Apply at build.a16z.com/fellowships/t…; details at a16z.news/p/introducing-the-…

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Today we're thrilled to announce the @a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship — an 8-week cohort for the people building the next operating system for recruiting.

We have a killer group of humans already joining- folks at the frontier of this space, including:

  • Danielle Poreh - Clay for Recruiting Lead, prev. Talent Scientist at Clay
  • Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy) Talent Engineering Lead at xAI
  • Viet Nguyen - Founder at Talent Collective, ex- Vercel, Netflix, Gem, Airops
  • Sebastian Cuadros (@hiiinternet) - Head of Talent Engineering @ Fonzi AI
  • Joshua Gill - Talent Engineering & Operations @ Luma AI
  • Jared Long - Recruiting Ops Lead @ Cursor, prev. Head of Recruiting Systems @ OpenAI
  • Jeffrey Li (@lijeffrey39) Co-founder & CTO at Paraform
  • Dan McCarthy - Snr Talent Engineer at Zapier)
  • Madison Morales - Talent at Anthropic, prev. General Catalyst
  • Amit Matani (@amitm) CEO @ Wellfound, formerly AngelList Talent
  • Johnny Sanchez (@johnnyblu6) - Head of Recruiting Operations & Technology @ Airbnb
  • Scott Bianco (@ScottBianco3) - Head of Talent at Hebbia
  • Ishan Deshpande (@ishand) - Talent Engineer at xAI
  • Joe Penn (@techdetjoe) - Talent Engineer & Partner at Carrara

Join us!

—> Apply here (let us know what you think of the application experience 👀): build.a16z.com/fellowships/t…

—> More info: a16z.news/p/introducing-the-…

cc @eriktorenberg, @katiekirsch