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Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
24
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
The Veteran Fund
Momentum
27/100
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
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
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How Foundation hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
197 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Foundation scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 24 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 197 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
Foundation is a robotics company that develops humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics work that remains manual. It runs pilots in consumer goods, beverage and glass production and builds both the hardware and the control software in house. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
News
WFM: Wiki Foundation Model for Complex Agentic Reasoning
Junnan Dong, Linhao Luo, Senlei Zhang and colleagues at Tencent Youtu Lab and Monash University propose WFM, a Wiki Foundation Model for encoding and retrieving
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DHH (@dhh) on X
Thrilled to announce @alibaba_cloud as a Founding Corporate Patron for the Omacom Foundation! $3 million in funding, collaboration on Omarchy China, and bringing Omarchy to the newly announced Qwen Book. Agentic computers need a native agentic OS! https:/
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Gates Foundation launches coalition for more representative language data sets for AI
The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages
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Building the materials foundation for AI
The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it. Semiconductors and data centers are approaching physical limit
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Public Data for Health
The OpenAI Foundation is supporting more than $125 million in grants to create and preserve high-quality scientific datasets for life sciences research.
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The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Foundation over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
53
Postings analysed
23
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
C++35%
Python26%
MATLAB17%
Embedded C9%
Frameworks & libraries
ROS213%
JAX9%
MuJoCo9%
PyTorch9%
Cloud & platforms
arXiv9%
GitHub4%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$55k – $400k
Open positions
17
11
Jobs
Junior
9.1%
Middle
18.2%
Senior
18.2%
Staff
36.4%
Architect
18.2%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $100k | $100k |
| Middle | 2 | $225k | $150k – $300k |
| Senior | 2 | $255k | $250k – $260k |
| Staff | 4 | $400k | $300k – $400k |
| Architect | 2 | $400k | $400k |
Highest paying role
Principal Compute Architect
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Foundation
By role, level and city, against the market · 17 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
24
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
198 days
faster than 7% 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.
Industrial Engineering
33% ▼
Hardware
22% ▼
Finance
22% ▲
AI/ML
11% ▲
Field & Service
11% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Covington
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added World Models to stack
Sep 2026
Added NeRF to stack
Sep 2026
Added Diffusion Models to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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22 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $298k Avg Salary
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Covington
United States
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $55k Avg Salary
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