1 open role
Roles are read from Merlin AI’s Y Combinator every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Merlin AI hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Merlin AI has the 2195th most open roles of 2,630 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 1 open role is 0.2× the average Early startup here (4.4).
- With a team of about 19, these openings would grow headcount by up to 5%.
- 0% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 22%).
- 100% of postings mention equity.
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- 1 role added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 12 months old, against 2 months across the site.
- Founded 2 years ago, in Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
Momentum, explained
- Merlin AI hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 1
- Roles added in 30 days
- 1
- Roles added in 90 days
- 1
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #2,195
- of 2,630 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.05
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 1
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 12 months
- Oldest: 12 months
Pay
- Roles that post pay
- 0%
- 0 of 1
- Mention equity
- 100%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 3 yrs
Breakdowns
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By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering1100%
- 1Mid level1100%
- 1Not stated1100%
- 1Bengaluru1100%
- 1Full-time1100%
- 1Engineering1100%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Merlin AI role.