Wellfound, the site formerly known as AngelList Talent, is one of the few job boards where early-stage companies publish a salary range and an equity range directly on the listing. This API turns those listings into structured JSON, with the compensation already parsed into numbers instead of left as a string you have to read.

One row per job. You get the title, the canonical URL, the full description in markdown, the raw compensation string, and parsed salaryMin, salaryMax, salaryCurrency, equityMin and equityMax. Every row also carries a company object with name, size, tagline, funding stage, and Wellfound's own signals for Y Combinator backing, top investors, and whether the company is actively hiring. Those signals work as filters too, so you can narrow a search to one class of company.

Search by role, by city, or by remote status. Filter on minimum salary, minimum equity, job type, or funding stage. Billing is per job returned with no start fee, and jobs your filters remove are never charged, so an exploratory run that matches nothing costs essentially nothing.

Example tasks and use cases

Find remote startup jobs - live remote listings with the accepted applicant locations on every row, which is the field that usually decides whether a listing is real for you.

Find Y Combinator startup jobs - filter to YC-backed companies, an investor signal most job boards do not carry at all.

Startup jobs in San Francisco - city search across the densest startup market there is.

Startup jobs in New York - a different mix, more fintech and enterprise, with pay bands that do not map onto the Bay Area.

Startup jobs in London - Europe's largest hub. Check the currency field before comparing anything against a US listing.

Startup salary and equity data - the research task: sample a role and summarise the parsed compensation numbers.

Works with MCP

The Actor runs over MCP, so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client can call it as a tool with no scraping code. Ask for remote startup jobs for a senior backend engineer paying over 160k and it returns structured rows. There are also two open agent skills built on it, one for pulling listings and one for benchmarking pay and equity.

Honest limits

There is no site-wide free-text search, because Wellfound does not offer one, so a keyword filters the pages a run already fetched and you drive the search with roles and locations instead. Compensation is only what the company published, so listings that named no salary or equity come back null. And it reads jobs, not companies; browsing the company directory is not in this version.

Keywords and topics

Remote startup jobs, YC startup jobs, Wellfound API, AngelList jobs data, startup salary data, equity compensation, job board API, jobs API, structured job listings, MCP tools for AI agents.