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Talent Engineer Fellowship

For engineers who recruit, talent leaders who build, and anyone rewriting how exceptional people get found.

You might call yourself an engineering leader, a sourcer, a recruiter, a people-analytics builder, or a talent-infrastructure founder. The domain is new, so we expect that the roles are undefined.

Applications close on Fri, July 17th at midnight PT - we’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis for a limited number of spots.

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Length

8 weeks

Cohort

Late August

Commitment

Opt-in dinners and events

Primary hubs

SF and NYC

Meet the founding fellows

You’ll break bread with a curated group of founding fellows and industry leaders. Here’s a quick glimpse.

Viet Nguyen
Viet Nguyen
Founder
Talent Collective
prev Dir of Recruiting at Vercel
Dan McCarthy
Dan McCarthy
Senior Talent Engineer
Zapier
Jared Long
Jared Long
Recruiting Ops Lead
Cursor
prev Recruiting Systems & Ops at OpenAI
Jeffrey Li
Jeffrey Li
CTO
Paraform
Madison Morales
Madison Morales
Talent
Anthropic
prev Talent at General Catalyst
Sebastian Cuadros
Sebastian Cuadros
Head of Talent Engineering
Fonzi AI
Amit Matani
Amit Matani
CEO
Wellfound
founded AngelList Talent at AngelList
Johnny Sanchez
Johnny Sanchez
Head of Recruiting Ops & Technology
Airbnb
Danielle Poreh
Danielle Poreh
Clay for Recruiting Lead
Clay
prev Talent Scientist at Clay
Scott Bianco
Scott Bianco
Talent
Hebbia
Ishan Deshpande
Ishan Deshpande
Talent
xAI
Joshua Gill
Joshua Gill
Talent Engineering & Operations
Luma AI