Cantina
cantina.com
Actively hiring
Social Networks
Multimodal AI
Generative Video
LLM & Generative AI
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Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
19
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
K5 Global, Lerer Hippeau
Momentum
33/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.49%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | CANTINA RESEARCH SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. | registry |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
K5 Global 
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How Cantina hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
60 days
Ghost roles
11%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Cantina scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 11% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 60 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Cantina is a social artificial intelligence technology company based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2023. The company provides a platform where users can create, interact with, and share multimodal AI characters that feature unique personalities and the ability to generate video content. It operates primarily through a mobile application and web interface, focusing on the intersection of generative AI and social media for a global audience of creators and consumers.
News
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I tried Taco Bell's new Mexican Pizza. It's even better than the original.
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The New Cantina Chicken Menu Is The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Taco Bell - Here's Why
Taco Bell's new Cantina Chicken menu may be Taco Bell's greatest new food launch ever. Here's why.
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TACO BELL LAUNCHES NEW CANTINA CHICKEN MENU NATIONALLY TO SHAKE UP THE DAYTIME
Brimming with flavorful ingredients, colors and textures, this new menu is just the beginning as Taco Bell increases focus on chicken offerings TLDR: Taco Bell...
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Lessons from Zoom on Privacy and Security
A flaw in how Zoom handles privacy and security is a major wake up call.
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How to Be Effective When Working Remotely
COVID-19 requires companies to rethink working remotely. At Cantina, we commonly use offsite work for delivering quality services to our clients and we have insights to share.
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Best Practices for User Testing Virtual Reality Applications
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Apple's new sign in approach stops third-party sites and services from getting your information.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cantina over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
113
Postings analysed
31
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python32%
C++19%
Go16%
SQL13%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch39%
CUDA16%
PyTorch C++16%
DeepSpeed10%
Databases
DynamoDB6%
ElasticSearch3%
OpenSearch3%
PostgreSQL3%
Cloud & platforms
AWS29%
CUDA Toolkit26%
Azure16%
Kubernetes16%
AI & ML
LLM6%
Stable Diffusion6%
CLIP3%
VLM3%
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Full Cantina tech stack
113 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$7.6k – $320k
Open positions
16
7
Jobs
Middle
14.3%
Senior
28.6%
Staff
42.9%
Architect
14.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Senior | 2 | $225k | $200k – $250k |
| Staff | 3 | $240k | $240k – $320k |
| Architect | 1 | $260k | $260k |
Highest paying role
Research Scientist, Video Foundation Models
$320k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Cantina
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
19
2 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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
52% ▼
Backend
17%
Mobile
13% ▼
Data Science
4% ▲
Product
4% ▼
Finance
4% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added TensorRT-LLM to stack
Oct 2026
Added SGLang to stack
Oct 2026
Added KV Cache to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Brooklyn
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vespa to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenSearch to stack
Sep 2026
Added ElasticSearch to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added World Models to stack
Sep 2026
Added Pre-training to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 10-50 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for Product, AI/ML, Mobile
Singapore
Singapore
Engineering / R&D
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $8k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Data Science
Los Angeles
United States
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $240k Avg Salary
hires for Mobile
Sunnyvale
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $240k Avg Salary
hires for Mobile
Brooklyn
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $80k Avg Salary
hires for Finance
Jobs
In office • Full-Time
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
Post-training
Model Distillation
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$6k – $7.6k per year • In office • Full-Time • Singapore
SQL
Multimodal AI
Machine Learning
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$250k – $320k per year • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
Go
SQL
ElasticSearch
OpenSearch
Vespa
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In office • Internship • Master's Degree • Singapore
Python
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Diffusion Models
Computer Vision
PyTorch
Post-training
LLM Evaluation
Model Distillation
Reward Modeling
Machine Learning
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In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Singapore
Python
C
pySpark
C
FFmpeg
AI/ML
Spark
OpenCV
Multimodal AI
Ray
Post-training
LLM Evaluation
Reward Modeling
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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$175k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
SQL
Deep Linking
Braze
Analytics
A/B Testing
Looker
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$200k – $220k per year • In office • Full-Time
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
DeepSpeed
CUDA Toolkit
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Speech Recognition
PyTorch
Tokenization
Synthetic Data
CUDA
Triton
DPO
GRPO
FSDP
Text-to-Speech
LLM Guardrails
Model Distillation
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$125k – $165k per year • In office • Full-Time
Python
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
Triton Inference Server
Speech Recognition
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
PyTorch
CUDA
Text-to-Speech
KV Cache
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
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$200k – $320k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Multimodal AI
Diffusion Models
Post-training
Pre-training
World Models
Reward Modeling
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$150k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Jira
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$180k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Los Angeles • Sunnyvale
Kotlin
Hilt
Kotlin Coroutines
StateFlow
Koin
AI/ML
Text-to-Speech
Mobile
Jetpack Compose
MVVM
Room
Exoplayer
Dependency Injection
WorkManager
CameraX
ViewModel
DevOps
WebRTC
Git
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$6k – $7.6k per year • In office • Full-Time • Singapore
Python
C
pySpark
C
FFmpeg
AI/ML
Spark
OpenCV
Multimodal AI
VLM
PyTorch
Ray
CLIP
Torchvision
Machine Learning
DevOps
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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