20 Remote and Startup Jobs for the AI-Powered Nomad (May 4, 2026)
Verified open this week: a16z-backed startup roles at Replit, ElevenLabs, Stripe, and Suno, plus 10 remote-friendly positions hiring worldwide.
AI moves at Twitter speed. Job boards move at LinkedIn speed.
If you’re an AI-powered nomad, you’ve felt this gap. You’re a researcher in Beijing weighing a Bay Area infra startup. An engineer in Lisbon eyeing a stealth Series A in Singapore. A PM in Shenzhen who wants to know what’s actually open at the frontier AI companies this week, not what was open three months ago when some aggregator last crawled the listing.
The opportunities you actually want move in days. The tools you have to find them are stuck in 2019.
Traditional job boards give you volume. What they don’t give you is context. They don’t tell you that Replit just tripled its valuation to $9B and is hiring a Chief of Staff who’ll work directly with the CEO. They don’t tell you that a Harvard Physics PhD is building the future of AI music and needs a PM who understands creators. They don’t tell you that a defense tech founder from Anduril just raised $34M and is hiring engineers to build power systems for the US military.
Context is what separates a job listing from an opportunity.
That’s what semidiffusion is building. In a 2026 job market where remote work listings churn weekly and AI startup roles close in days, I do the work that job boards won’t: I verify that the role is actually open right now, I trace the funding and the founders, and I tell you why the opportunity matters, not just that it exists.
This is the first full Job Posting edition. Two categories, twenty roles, every single one verified open within the past seven days.
AI Startup Jobs — a16z-Backed, Hiring Now
These roles come from the a16z Build network, the talent pipeline of Andreessen Horowitz. Every company below has raised fresh capital and is actively building their team right now. The window on these is narrow: startup hiring moves fast, and these roles will close in days, not months.
1. Chief of Staff to the CEO — Replit Replit just closed a $400M Series D at a $9B valuation, tripling in six months. You’ll work directly with CEO Amjad Masad, owning the hardest cross-functional problems he can’t delegate, coordinating the CEO’s network to accelerate go-to-market internationally, and building integrated views of product, market, and business dynamics that no single function owns. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/replit/95332816-5890-4fac-b5fc-4b0cea0d77db
2. AI Creative Producer — ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is defining what AI-generated content looks like at scale. This role sits on the Creator Growth team. You’ll prototype workflows, test models, and push creative boundaries, producing everything from cinematic visuals and short films to social assets that inspire millions of creators. Apply: https://elevenlabs.io/careers/3178581d-ea70-4dee-b018-2ce2d2a18bbe/ai-creative-producer
3. Product Manager, Artists & Creators — Suno Harvard Physics PhD Mikey Shulman is building the future of AI music generation. You’ll represent the artist and creator journey on Suno, define how creators grow on the platform, build systems that surface and scale talent, and launch new products to accelerate artist success. In-person NYC or Venice Beach. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/suno/0740427c-6afa-4f3f-a3e1-1675fa23301c
4. Senior Product Manager, Consumer — Counsel Health Stanford MD Muthu Alagappan is building an AI-enabled, physician-supervised primary care platform. You’ll own the Day 0 to Day 30 experience for new users, engineer meaningful “aha” moments, and run the core chat experience around how users receive care. Based in NYC. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/counsel/b6edfdc2-539c-4e6d-9b07-054618ef5f70
5. Founding Customer Success Manager — Comfy Ex-Google engineer Yoland Yan raised $30M for Comfy, an open-source, node-based workflow platform for generative AI. You’ll build the customer success playbook from scratch: which customers get white-glove treatment, what onboarding looks like, how to measure health, and how the team scales. Based in SF. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/comfy-org/a1c5c5ed-62ac-4767-af57-a3ba4e0bf5e4
6. Content Engineer — Baseten This isn’t a traditional content role. You’ll operate at the intersection of growth, product marketing, and community building. Your job is to create the pipeline for generating high-viewership content and define Baseten’s playbook for discoverability in AI engines. 3-month contract-to-hire. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/baseten/a0fd4d94-dfd7-4165-9cdd-25e3d31e25c4
7. Brand Designer, Creative Labs — Stripe Stripe’s creative team spans digital installations, interactive games, live-streaming a hand-built city over Black Friday, and producing films. This is a highly experimental, idea-driven role in NYC. Your ability to generate innovative ideas matters as much as your ability to bring them to life. Apply: https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/brand-designer-creative-labs/7793636
8. Senior SWE, Core Product — Salient YC W23 financial ops startup reshaping how millions of loans are serviced through AI. You’ll own everything from payment processing to fraud prevention to customer support, handling both the 0-to-1 MVP development and the 1-to-10 scaling phase. Based in SF. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/salient/03ec52e9-746f-45e0-8cb5-0fdf057e4ed3
9. Mechanical Engineer — Chariot Defense Founded by Adam Warmoth (prev Anduril, Uber, Archer) with a $34M Series A. You’ll conceptualize, design, develop, and test advanced mechanical and power electronic systems, including fully integrated vehicle platforms for the US military and its allies. Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chariotdefense/jobs/5181624008
10. Founding Team — Petual (AI for Audit) Snir Kodesh (prev Head of Eng at Retool, Sr Dir of Eng at Lyft) raised $20M to automate SOX testing with AI agents. Over $8B is spent annually on SOX compliance in the US alone. Petual’s agents aim to deliver audit testing results from any dataset in minutes. Building the founding team in SF. Email: contact@petual.ai
Remote Jobs Hiring Worldwide — Verified Open This Week
These roles are sourced from RemoteOK, verified accessible as of this week (data updated May 3, 2026). Every link goes to a real job posting. Click through to the listing page, then hit “Apply” to reach the company’s own application system.
1. Lead Analytics Engineer, Borrowing — Monzo The UK challenger bank is hiring a lead analytics engineer for its lending vertical. You’ll own the data infrastructure that powers lending decisions. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-lead-analytics-engineer-borrowing-monzo-1131423
2. Maps Visual Design Relevance Rater (English) — Welo Global An evaluation and annotation role. You’ll rate the visual design relevance of map interfaces. Flexible, contract-based, worldwide. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-maps-visual-design-relevance-rater-english-welo-global-1131422
3. Solutions Analyst — Sayari Sayari builds supply chain risk and financial intelligence tools. You’ll work with enterprise clients to implement and optimize the platform. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-solutions-analyst-sayari-1131421
4. Senior Data Engineer — Business Wire Berkshire Hathaway’s global press release distribution company is hiring a senior data engineer to build and maintain data pipelines at scale. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-senior-data-engineer-business-wire-1131415
5. Digital Full Stack Engineer — Smart Working Solutions Full stack role (HR172) at a remote-first consultancy. You’ll build digital products across the stack. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-digital-full-stack-engineer-hr172-smart-working-solutions-1131414
6. Full Stack Staff Engineer — Join Staff-level full stack engineering at Join, a construction estimating platform. Senior IC role with architectural ownership. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-full-stack-staff-engineer-join-1131413
7. VP of Global Customer Success & Support — JumpCloud Executive role at JumpCloud, the open directory platform. You’ll lead global CS and support strategy for a company serving 200,000+ organizations. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-vice-president-of-global-customer-success-amp-support-jumpcloud-1131411
8. Senior Software Developer — Geotab Geotab is one of the largest telematics companies in the world. You’ll build software for fleet management and IoT at scale. Burnaby-based but remote-friendly. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-senior-software-developer-burnaby-geotab-1131407
9. Founding Engineer — Haast Early-stage founding engineer role. You’ll have significant ownership and build core product from scratch. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-founding-engineer-haast-1131402
10. Staff Data Engineer — Imagine Pediatrics Imagine Pediatrics delivers virtual-first care for children with complex medical needs. You’ll build the data infrastructure powering clinical operations and outcomes measurement. Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-staff-data-engineer-imagine-pediatrics-1131401
How semidiffusion Curates AI and Remote Job Listings Differently
Most job newsletters give you a list. I give you a list with an expiration date, because that’s how startup hiring actually works. Every role above was verified open within the past seven days. By the time you read this, some will already be closing. That’s not a flaw in the newsletter. That’s the reality of the market.
The other thing I do differently is source diversity. The startup roles come from the a16z Build network, which means you’re seeing positions that founders and their investors are actively promoting, not stale postings sitting in a Greenhouse graveyard. The remote roles come from live RemoteOK data, cross-referenced against the actual job pages.
I’m not going to pretend this is comprehensive. Twenty jobs is a curated snapshot. The AI-era job market has thousands of openings at any given moment, and they churn constantly. What I can promise is that everything you see here is real, current, and comes with enough context to decide whether it’s worth your time.
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