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🚀 Apply for Accelerator Sep 2025

Headstarter's Accelerator is for engineers of all levels to build, collaborate and get recognition. With over 105k engineers in our community and 40+ company and VC partners, Headstarter's mission is to mobilize AI Engineers to create the greatest products of our 21st century. Over 2000 engineers from Headstarter got offers at OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc. If you want to hire from headstarter, go here.

Reasons to Familiarize Yourself with AI Engineering in 2025:

1) Cursor wants to make a 50x engineer

2) Most of AI's value will come from vertical apps

3) Every engineer needs forward deployed engineer / founder skills

Outcomes from Headstarter Accelerator:

a) Blunt feedback on resume, candidate perception and career plans

b) Clear direction on tutorials, skills, personal branding and networking

c) Concrete deadlines on project submissions with quality feedback

d) Increased network of ambitious AI Engineers in Silicon Valley

e) Real-time feedback on what companies look for in interviews

f) Land interviews at top startups hiring full-stack, ML, Infra in SF/NYC

How Headstarter Works

🚀 Resume & Linkedin: Updating format and bullets points to convey ideas with ease. Creating a 2-year plan on future work experiences, goals and side quests

🚀 2 project demos per week: one personal, one guided. Guided projects as seen on our website are created by mentors or team members around full-stack, AI/ML or infra

🚀 Mentorship: Assign a mentor one or two levels ahead of user to learn about industry

🚀 Cheat Sheets: Quickly grasp the ins and outs of full-stack, AI/ML or infra with trusted tutorials

Reasons not to Apply for the Accelerator:

1) If career opportunities are not a top-3 problem for you

2) If Computer Science concepts are new to you

3) If you cannot dedicate 10 hours per week

4) If you cannot afford $20/week for access

Headstarter's Accelerator Application exists to make sure those joining the accelerator are not new to programing, have desire to be in an intense environment and can prioritize 10 hours a week. We also check for exceptional backgrounds for immediate intros to top companies, VCs or invite-only cohorts.