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Funding and backers

Hiring now
9
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2024 Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 17 points
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Overview

Abundant is an applied research lab focused on scaling reinforcement learning for safe and reliable agentic capabilities. It provides environments and datasets for reinforcement learning to leading AI labs and hires researchers and alignment specialists. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

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6188 portfolio companies

News

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News GitLab 3 months ago
When code is abundant
Producing code is getting cheap. Trusting it is not. Why enterprises need a durable layer of context, verification, and governance around AI agents.
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News henrymurphy832344.substack.com 3 months ago
When Intelligence Becomes Abundant, Architecture Becomes the Constraint
Why AI agents will hit diminishing returns, and why the architecture underneath them is what has to change.
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News X (formerly Twitter) 3 months ago
Harjot Gill (@harjotsgill) on X
Code is abundant. Judgment is scarce. We raised $143 million to help it scale.
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News jay4.fun 3 months ago
Ideas are abundant. Friction is evidence. - Jay
Your first company can start with a problem you already feel, and the tools you need while solving it.
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News lifeinthesingularity.com 4 months ago
When Cognitive Labor Becomes Abundant
A year ago, I wrote about the revenge of the generalist.
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News BBC News 5 months ago
Geothermal energy: Investment needed to develop new tech
Start-ups are taking fresh approaches to geothermal energy, but will the economics work?
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News bbc.com 5 months ago
Geothermal energy: Investment needed to develop new tech
Start-ups are taking fresh approaches to geothermal energy, but will the economics work?
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Award Bitcoin Magazine 6 months ago
Abundant Mines Wins Inaugural Satos Award For Mining & Energy
Oregon-based bitcoin mining company wins industry-voted accolade, demonstrating dedication toward operational excellence and transparency.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Abundant over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
19
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
68/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Abundant tech stack 19 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
9
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
43% ▼
DevOps
29% ▼
HR
14% ▼
Science & Research
14% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Python to stack Sep 2026
Added RLHF to stack Sep 2026
Added RLAIF to stack Sep 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack Sep 2026
Added Interpretability to stack Sep 2026
Added BERT to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
7 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 71% engineering
hires for AI/ML, DevOps, Product
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Dublin Ireland
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for AI/ML, DevOps
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $205k – $407k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
Knowledge Distillation
AI Agents
LLM
Post-training
Red Teaming
Interpretability
Model Distillation
RLAIF
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In office · Internship · San Francisco
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
NLP
Synthetic Data
SFT
Post-training
Physical AI
Model Distillation
DevOps
AWS
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≈ $167k – $325k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
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≈ $91k – $218k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Dublin
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
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≈ $120k – $276k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · PhD · Dublin
Python
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
Knowledge Distillation
AI Agents
NLP
Post-training
Model Distillation
RLAIF
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≈ $152k – $324k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Claude Code
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
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≈ $203k – $405k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · PhD · San Francisco
Python
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
Knowledge Distillation
AI Agents
NLP
Post-training
Model Distillation
RLAIF
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