Headstart Your Tech Career

Choose a plan that fits your needs

Explorer

Build your career capital with mentor and community access

$29/mo

Includes:

  • Bi-Weekly Resume Roasts
  • Match with Hiring Partners
  • Mock Interviews with AI

Builder

Level up your career capital with access to a large mentor community while building projects on your own

$79/mo

Includes:

  • Everything in Explorer, plus:
  • LinkedIn Brand + Job Hunt Roast
  • Free Stay SF / NYC Hacker House
  • 3 Calls with a Dedicated Mentor from Google, OpenAI or startup

Accelerator

Fast-track Career Capital with access to mentor community and structured Headstarter projects endorsed by companies

$149/mo

Includes:

  • Everything in Builder, plus:
  • Real-World AI, ML, SWE projects
  • 2-week Sprint Deadlines
  • Community with 400+ Engineers
  • Access 20+ past Project Sprints
  • Build Projects in Teams of 3-4*
  • O1 Visa Support and Guidance

Get referred to our Partners

We partnered with 30+ companies hiring for 100+ roles.

Anterior logo
$170-220k

Product Eng., Anterior

Pam AI logo
$$$HIRED

Software Engineer, Pam AI

AutoMax AI logo
$100-150k

Founding Eng., AutoMax AI

Ruby (YC23) logo
$$$HIRED

Software Intern, Ruby (YC23)

Autoblocks AI logo
$120-200k

Founding Eng., Autoblocks AI

Roger Health logo
$120-180K

Full-Stack Eng., Roger Health

Rilla Voice logo
$190-230k

Senior Engineer, Rilla Voice

Mandolin logo
Competitive Pay

Full-Stack Eng., Mandolin

Olostep logo
$$$HIRED

Software Intern, Olostep

Nucleo Research logo
$$$HIRED

SWE Intern, Nucleo Research

Stealth Startup logo
$$$HIRED

Software Eng., Stealth Startup

AI logo
Competitive Pay

Technical Staff, AI

Success Stories

Hundreds of Headstarters have landed roles at top startups, Google, OpenAI, Duolingo, and more.

Citadel logo
Raja Adil

Software Intern, Citadel

Headstarter '21

Perplexity logo
Sathvik Vangavolu

Dev. Relations Intern, Perplexity

Headstarter '25

OpenAI logo
Anonymous

Researcher, OpenAI

Headstarter '24

Duolingo logo
Vanohra Gaspard

SWE Intern, Duolingo

Headstarter '24

Mercor logo
Eric L.

AI Analyst, Mercor

Headstarter '24

Scale AI logo
Jordan Yen

SWE Intern, Scale AI

Headstarter '24

Reality AI logo
Zion Mckoy

SWE Intern, Reality AI

Headstarter '24

Play AI logo
Jessi Pavia

Software Eng., Play AI

Headstarter '24

Fetch AI logo
Rajashekar V

Applied AI, Fetch AI

Headstarter '24

Google logo
Ahmad Hossain

Software Engineer, Google

Headstarter '22

Google logo
Agrima Kampani

Software Engineer, Google

Headstarter '21

Google logo
H K

Software Engineer, Google

Headstarter '22

Bloomberg logo
Thamida Choudhury

Software Intern, Bloomberg

Headstarter '23

Grubhub logo
Ayan Reza

Software Engineer, Grubhub

Headstarter '21

Capital One logo
Dipu Chowdhury

Software Engineer, Capital One

Headstarter '21

Microsoft logo
Samin Malik

Software Eng., Microsoft

Headstarter '21

Amazon logo
Maximillian Kodi

Software Engineer, Amazon

Headstarter '25

Ragie AI logo
Stone Werner

Software Engineer, Ragie AI

Headstarter '21

Capital One logo
Tajwar Rahman

Software Engineer, Capital One

Headstarter '21

Google logo
N H

Software Engineer, Google

Headstarter '21

Scale AI logo
J Cai

Software Eng., Scale AI

Headstarter '23

T Mobile logo
Ayesha Mahmood

SWE Intern, T Mobile

Headstarter '24

JP Morgan logo
Farhan Zaman

Software Engineer, JP Morgan

Headstarter '21

Wayfair logo
Nana Adjekum

Software Eng., Wayfair

Headstarter '24

Pomu IO logo
Qiming Liu

Software Eng., Pomu IO

Headstarter '25

TensorLinks logo
rakesh puppala

AI Intern, TensorLinks

Headstarter '21

ServiceNow logo
Bisman S.

Software Eng., ServiceNow

Headstarter '25

Complex Projects

Examples of past projects given by our industry mentors in our Accelerator program

Popreel / TikTok Clone

By Hassan

AI Founder, Ex-Google, Microsoft

AI Agent Builder

By Waleed

AI Founder, Ex-Amazon

Detect Market Crashes

By Angelica

AI Founder, Ex-Google, Microsoft

LLM Evaluation Platform

By Nabeel

AI at Airtable, sold prev. company to Lyft

Codegen: SWE Agent

By Tawsif

Software Engineer, Ex-IBM

AI Answer Engine

By Faizan

Headstarter Co-Founder, Ex-Amazon & Bloomberg