How to get in · ~$11B
ElevenLabs
The voice AI leader with the friendliest door for young builders: a recent-grad FDE track.
The door
Forward Deployed Engineer (incl. recent-grad track)
- · Forward Deployed Engineer, Strategist
- · FDE, Recent Graduate track
- · Prototyping and partner engineers
The bar
Prototype fast, demo beautifully, translate the tech for partners. The recent-grad FDE variant trades pedigree for shipped voice demos.
Who actually gets in
pattern 01
Builders with public voice-AI demos that made people share them
pattern 02
Hackathon shippers who integrate the API in a weekend and publish it
pattern 03
Recent grads through the FDE track, the lowest-friction door on this page
Skills that matter here
Each links to the live demand board with the top certification per skill.
The first-principles path
01
Pick the door
Not a job title, a door: the role archetype that hires proof over pedigree. It is listed on every page below.
02
Study who gets in
Each company selects on a pattern. Read it. Becoming the pattern beats persuading the recruiter.
03
Build the artifact
One purpose-built project on their platform, deployed, demoable in one link. The spec is on each page.
04
Publish and route it
Post it publicly and tag the team, then get it to a named human: a warm intro beats the portal by an order of magnitude.
05
Apply with proof attached
Now the application is a formality confirming what the team already saw.
Your artifact for ElevenLabs
A 60 second public demo of your product speaking with their voices, posted and tagged, then attached to the FDE application as the opening line.