FriendliAI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$20M
1 round on record
Latest round
$20M
Seed · Aug 2025 · 13 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
17
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Sierra Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
9/100
hiring for its size
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
May 10
Expanded FriendliAI Expands to San Francisco to Scale Frontier AI Inference for Open-Weight and Custom Models · businesswire.com
Apr 8
New executive FriendliAI Appoints Brian Yoo, Former Moloco COO, as Chief Business Officer to Drive Next Phase of Hypergrowth · businesswire.com
Aug 29, 2025
Raised a round Seed $20M · SiliconANGLE
Jan 22, 2025
Partnership FriendliAI and Hugging Face Announce Strategic Partnership · Nasdaq
Jan 4, 2024
Launched FriendliAI Unveils Serverless Endpoints for Widespread, Affordable Access to Open-source Generative AI Models · PRNewswire
Jun 2021
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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Web presence
top 0.45%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Aug 2025 | $20M | — | SiliconANGLE |
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How FriendliAI hires
Truth index
C 68/100
Ghost roles
53%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
FriendliAI scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 17 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 53% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
News
FriendliAI Expands to San Francisco to Scale Frontier AI Inference for Open-Weight and Custom Models
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FriendliAI Appoints Brian Yoo, Former Moloco COO, as Chief Business Officer to Drive Next Phase of Hypergrowth
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FriendliAI: $20 Million Seed Extension Secured For Advancing AI Inference Platform Growth
FriendliAI, a dynamic player in the AI inference platform arena, has recently marked a significant milestone by successfully closing a $20 million seed extension round. This funding is a testament to the company's innovative approach and its ability to ad
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FriendliAI raises $20M in funding to accelerate AI inference workloads
FriendliAI raises $20M in funding to accelerate AI inference workloads - SiliconANGLE
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FriendliAI and Hugging Face Announce Strategic Partnership
--FriendliAI, a leader in accelerated generative AI inference serving, and Hugging Face today announced a strategic partnership that allows developers to utilize FriendliAI's inference infrastructure service to deploy and serve models directly in the Hugg
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Hugging Face settles suit with AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused it of patent infringement
Hugging Face has settled a lawsuit against Korean AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused the former of infringing on one of its patents.
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FriendliAI Unveils Serverless Endpoints for Widespread, Affordable Access to Open-source Generative AI Models
/PRNewswire/ -- FriendliAI, a leader in inference serving for generative AI, announced the launch of Friendli Serverless Endpoints today for accessible...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at FriendliAI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
72
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python50%
C++15%
SQL15%
JavaScript15%
Frameworks & libraries
FastAPI20%
Triton20%
LangChain15%
OpenTelemetry15%
Databases
ClickHouse15%
PostgreSQL15%
Cloud & platforms
Hugging Face75%
Kubernetes55%
AWS40%
vLLM15%
AI & ML
LLM60%
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Full FriendliAI tech stack
72 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
34/100
Slowing
Open positions
17
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
205 days
faster than 6% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Backend
63% ▼
Product
13% ▼
Sales
13% ▲
Solutions
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS 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
Engineering / R&D
FriendliAI
10 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 70% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Product
San Francisco
Seoul
South Korea
Engineering / R&D
FriendliAI
10 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 80% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Product
Seoul
Jobs
≈ $145k – $312k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
Multimodal AI
Hugging Face
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
Knative
AWS
Kubernetes
eBPF
IAM
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
HIPAA
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In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Seoul
Multimodal AI
Hugging Face
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
Knative
AWS
Kubernetes
eBPF
IAM
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
HIPAA
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≈ $123k – $258k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
DeepSpeed
vLLM
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
Diffusion Models
AI Agents
TensorRT
LLM
Triton
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Loki
Prometheus
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Amazon EKS
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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≈ $217k – $415k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · San Francisco
vLLM
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
AI Agents
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
LLM
KV Cache
Apply
In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seoul
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
OpenTelemetry
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
Auth0
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≈ $157k – $292k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
Python
Function Calling
NCCL
InfiniBand
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
Helm
Cilium
Istio
etcd
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
eBPF
SLI/SLO/SLA
Linux
DNS
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In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seoul
Python
Function Calling
NCCL
InfiniBand
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
Helm
Cilium
Istio
etcd
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
eBPF
SLI/SLO/SLA
Linux
DNS
Apply
In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Seoul
Python
Go
TypeScript
Asyncio
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
LLM
Hugging Face
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seoul
C++
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Mixture of Experts
CUDA
Triton
Hugging Face
ROCm
CUTLASS
DevOps
HPC
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In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seoul
Python
C++
Multimodal AI
Diffusion Models
AI Agents
Hugging Face
Machine Learning
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≈ $157k – $293k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
SQL
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
LLM
Hugging Face
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
OpenTelemetry
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $128k – $252k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
Python
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Hugging Face
OCR
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$20M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2025 | $20M | Details |