Gimlet Labs
AI Research Labs · AI Compute & Inference
$380Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
8open roles
$350kmedian advertised pay
$300Mlatest round · Series B · Sep 2026 · 2 mo ago
Overview
Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems, including a multi-silicon neocloud designed for fast, efficient AI inference. It works with foundation labs, hyperscalers and AI-native companies and hires finance leaders, recruiters, developer relations staff and applied AI research engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
How Gimlet Labs hires
Truth index
A 87/100
Median time to fill
70 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
31%
Reposted roles
0%
Gimlet Labs scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 13 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 31% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 70 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
Funding and backers
Total raised
$380M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$300M
Series B · Sep 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
22
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +120% in a year
Hiring now
17
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Wing Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
61/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
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
Oct 12
First sales or marketing role Project Coordinator, Hardware Partnerships
Sep 30
First executive search Strategic Finance Director
Sep 4
Raised a round Series B $300M
Mar 27
Raised a round Venture round $80M · led by Menlo Ventures · Pulse 2.0
2025
Team of 22 was 10 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Sep 3, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels · 187 points
May 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
9
best: 187 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Sep 2026 | $300M | — | marketwatch.com |
| Venture round | Mar 2026 | $80M | Menlo Ventures lead | Pulse 2.0 |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$350k
Typical range
$180k – $400k
Open positions
14
10
Jobs
Staff
80%
Architect
20%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 8 | $390k | $235k – $400k |
| Architect | 2 | $290k | $280k – $300k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff - Compiler Engineer
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Gimlet Labs
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
5 ▲ 400%
H-1B filings in 12 months
$263k
Median offered salary
17
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Software developers
5
In the register as Gimlet Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
Prime Intellect 
Anthropic 
OpenAI 
CoreWeave
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 11, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
49/100
Stable
Open positions
17
4 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
70 days
faster than 17% 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.
Finance
29% ▲
DevOps
14% ▲
Sales
14% ▲
Operations
14% ▼
AI/ML
7% ▲
Product
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Nov 2026
Added Outlook to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agile to stack
Oct 2026
Added AutoCAD to stack
Oct 2026
Added Notion to stack
Oct 2026
Added IREE to stack
Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack
Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Gimlet Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
45
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
67/100AI adopter
Languages
Python50%
C++21%
Bash7%
TypeScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA29%
Triton21%
TensorRT-LLM14%
Apache TVM7%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes21%
AWS14%
Azure14%
GCP14%
AI & ML
LLM14%
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45 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
Wing Venture CapitalVia a fund
EclipseVia a fund
Sapphire VenturesVia a fund
Menlo VenturesVia a fund
Andreessen HorowitzVia a fund
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News
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Gimlet Labs Joins MLCommons as a Member Company to Establish Vendor-Agnostic Benchmarks for Agentic Inference and Accelerate Innovation
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Gimlet Labs: $80 Million Raised For AI Inference Software Platform Scaling Multi-Silicon Infrastructure
Gimlet Labs has raised $80 million in a Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to $92 million as it looks to scale its multi-silicon AI inference platform.
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Gimlet Labs launches with $12M to port AI agents across chips
Gimlet Labs launches with $12M to port AI agents across chips - SiliconANGLE
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
Contact Us
16 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 6% remote 200-500 est. staff $326k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Finance, Sales
255 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103
Earlier presence
Oklahoma City, United States