HUD
Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms · AI Training Data & Annotation
17open roles
$225kmedian advertised pay
32H-1B filings in 12 months
Growinghiring pace, 69 of 100
Overview
HUD builds infrastructure for AI data, running a marketplace and platform where data creators and the labs that train on it meet, used by startups and large companies. It hires robotics research engineers, software engineers for data quality, product managers and customer operations leads in San Francisco and Singapore. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
How HUD hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
HUD scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% 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
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
39
+11 posted in 30 days
Momentum
11/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$225k
Typical range
$165k – $295k
Open positions
27
13
Jobs
Junior
7.7%
Middle
7.7%
Senior
23.1%
Staff
53.8%
Architect
7.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Middle | 1 | $165k | $165k |
| Senior | 3 | $260k | $225k – $295k |
| Staff | 7 | $230k | $165k – $295k |
| Architect | 1 | $210k | $210k |
Highest paying role
Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality
$295k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at HUD
By role, level and city, against the market · 27 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
32
Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
32
Open roles in United States
In the register as HUD
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The employer's own adverts on Alion · checked Nov 12, 2026 · Visa details by country
3
Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
3
Open roles in Singapore
In the register as HUD
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
39
11 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
40 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Sales
31% ▲
Backend
13%
Product
9% ▼
Robotics
6% ▲
Industrial Engineering
6%
AI/ML
3% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Qwen to stack
Nov 2026
Added Zustand to stack
Oct 2026
Added Tailwind CSS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Oct 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack
Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Added FastAPI to stack
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vision-Language-Action to stack
Sep 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Physical AI to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at HUD over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
43
Postings analysed
42
Stack modernity
89/100AI adopter
Languages
Python29%
TypeScript7%
JavaScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js7%
Next.js5%
FastAPI2%
Tailwind CSS2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux14%
AWS12%
Kubernetes5%
Amazon EC22%
AI & ML
ChatGPT100%
Qwen5%
LLM2%
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43 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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
32 open roles 25 posted in 90 days 44% engineering 50-200 est. staff $222k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Backend
Singapore
Singapore
Sales office
28 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $228k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, Backend