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Break into the best ML/ SWE Roles
Solve real-world tech problems. Get personalized referrals. Land your dream job.
Solve real-world projects. Get warm referrals. Land your dream job.
Over 2000+ Engineers hired after Headstarter into Companies like:
One Platform to Land a Job
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We partnered with 30+ companies hiring for 100+ roles.
Solve Real-world Problems
Complete 20-100hr coding projects in full-stack, ai/ml or infra given by startups
Get Personalized Referrals
Turn your skills to automatic job interviews. Get introduced to jobs or feedback on how to improve
Support Throughout Journey
Join Network, IRL Events and Headstarter alumni who are in many top Software Companies
How our Platform Works
A score from 0-100 on how one thinks and collaborates compared to a Staff SWE.
ML Projects
Work on complex problems in AI/ML, infra and demo your storytelling & coding skills
Career Score
See how close you are to becoming a senior engineer with every submission.
Full-Stack Projects
Build AI-Engineering, Full-stack and Backend projects
AI Mock Interviews & Feedback
Practice Data Structures and Algorithms and get feedback on communication
Level-up and Get Feedback
Join IRL events, speaker series and live resume roasts.
Match with Startups
Have work experience, 85+ career capital OR the best project and we will forward you to:
$170-220k
Product Eng., Anterior
$170-220k
Product Eng., Anterior
HIRED
$$$
Software Intern, Ruby (YC23)
$190-300k
Senior Engineer, Rilla Voice
$190-300k
Senior Engineer, Rilla Voice
HIRED
$170-220k
$$$
Software Intern, Olostep
$120-200k
Founding Eng., Autoblocks AI
HIRED
$$$
Software Eng., Stealth Startup
$150-300K
Member of Technical Staff, Coframe
$100-150k
Founding Eng., AutoMax AI
$150-180K
Full-Stack Eng., Roger Health
HIRED
$$$
Software Intern, Olostep
Hiring Partners.
Build up 85+ Career Capital and we will forward you to:
$170-220k
Product Eng., Anterior
$170-220k
Product Eng., Anterior
HIRED
$$$
Software Intern, Ruby (YC23)
$190-230k
Senior Engineer, Rilla Voice
$190-230k
Senior Engineer, Rilla Voice
HIRED
$$$
Software Intern, Olostep
$120-200k
Founding Eng., Autoblocks AI
$120-200k
Founding Eng., Autoblocks AI
Competitive Pay
Full-Stack Eng., Mandolin
Competitive Pay
Full-Stack Eng., Mandolin
HIRED
$$$
Software Eng., Stealth Startup
$120-180K
Full-Stack Eng., Roger Health
$120-180K
Full-Stack Eng., Roger Health
THE #1 Community
Join IRL events, speaker series and resume roasts
How it Works
A score from 0-100 on how one thinks and collaborates compared to a Staff SWE.
Complex Projects
Work on problems in AI/ML, infra and demo your storytelling & coding skills
AI Mock Interviews & Feedback
Practice Data Structures and Algorithms and get feedback on communication
Career Score
See how close you are to becoming a senior engineer with every submission.
Success Stories
Success Stories
2000+ Headstarters have landed roles at top companies.
Raja Adil
2x Software Intern, Citadel
Headstarter '21
Vanohra Gaspard
Software Intern, Duolingo
Headstarter '24
Ahmad Hossain
Software Engineer, Google
Headstarter '22
Thamida Choudhury
Software Intern, Bloomberg
Headstarter '23
Samin Malik
Software Eng., Microsoft
Headstarter '21
Raja Adil
2x Software Intern, Citadel
Headstarter '21
Vanohra Gaspard
Software Intern, Duolingo
Headstarter '24
Ahmad Hossain
Software Engineer, Google
Headstarter '22
Thamida Choudhury
Software Intern, Bloomberg
Headstarter '23
Samin Malik
Software Eng., Microsoft
Headstarter '21
Sathvik Vangavolu
Dev. Relations Intern, Perplexity
Headstarter '25
Eric L.
AI Analyst, Mercor
Headstarter '24
Ayan Reza
Software Engineer, Grubhub
Headstarter '21
Maximillian Kodi
Software Engineer, Amazon
Headstarter '25
Agrima Kampani
Software Engineer, Google
Headstarter '21
Sathvik Vangavolu
Dev. Relations Intern, Perplexity
Headstarter '25
Eric L.
AI Analyst, Mercor
Headstarter '24
Ayan Reza
Software Engineer, Grubhub
Headstarter '21
Maximillian Kodi
Software Engineer, Amazon
Headstarter '25
Agrima Kampani
Software Engineer, Google
Headstarter '21
Anonymous
Researcher, OpenAI
Headstarter '24
Jordan Yen
SWE intern, Scale AI
Headstarter '24
Rajashekar V.
Applied AI, Fetch AI
Headstarter '24
J Cai
Software Eng., Scale AI
Headstarter '23
Nana Adjekum
Software Eng., Wayfair
Headstarter '24
Anonymous
Researcher, OpenAI
Headstarter '24
Jordan Yen
SWE intern, Scale AI
Headstarter '24
Rajashekar V.
Applied AI, Fetch AI
Headstarter '24
J Cai
Software Eng., Scale AI
Headstarter '23
Nana Adjekum
Software Eng., Wayfair
Headstarter '24
"Past month, I have worked on AI projects and expanded my network by nearly 200%"
" I had the opportunity to contribute to an AI-powered pull request review system designed to streamline code reviews using LLMs."
"Collaborating with fellow cohorts!"
Lauren Ramroop
"I really liked how it forced me to get out of my comfort zone"
Rafinal Haque
"It taught me quite a bit about technical interviews, and building a good resume. "
Nasif Rahman
" It' provides a personal connection with seasoned professionals who provide great insight on the tech industry."
Saqib Mahmood
"AI tutor was best part of the platform. However I can’t deny the importance of the audio feature as it allows us to hear ourselves and improves our capabilities in explaining stuff vocally."
Tahira Tabassum
"A great program that helps software engineers with their professional careers."
Daniel Xie
"This project took me through various stages like data cleaning, training multiple machine learning models, hyper parameter tuning, and deploying the model into a web app for real-time inference"
"I was able to learn how to tackle Leetcode problems, and have a clean resume"
"Building projects with the team, and building a strong foundation overall in my software engineering path"
"More than the feature of the platform I liked the selective lessons/the information that was presented very efficient and effective and practical."
Jevi Deshati
"I loved the videos on how to win hackathons; I thought it was very helpful"
James So
"Gave an opportunity to work on a project as a team"
Masroor Khonkhodzhaev
"It helped me understand the many different ways technologies can be used with each other, in ways I wouldn’t have been able to understand on my own."
Tanzim Miage
"fascinating to see how AI can enhance our development workflow while maintaining high code quality standards."
"Headstarter taught me how to think like a software engineer and provided me the resources i need to improve my programming skills and make myself more desirable by hiring managers"
"Working with a dedicated team on high quality projects"
Jake Enea
"Headstarter pushed me outside of my comfort zone in a positive way to become a better candidate for the job market and overall help me gain skills necessary for my career."
Nicole Sosa
"I liked the coding practice we received. I think I learn best actually doing stuff, so that really helped. Helal's videos were also a major highlight."
Jawad Chowdhury
"I really enjoyed the audio feedback. It was impressive to see an AI nitpick my responses and provide real time feedback on my response."
Tanzia Nur
"Headstarter organized every topic into weeks. They gave a reasonable amount of work to be done in a reasonable amount of time"
Atiquz Zaman
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How does completion and accountability work?
What is Career Capital?