Humwork
AI Training Data & Annotation · AI Agents
1open role
1backers · Y Combinator
10+team · employees, estimated range
23technologies in use
Overview
Humwork is a startup that provides on-demand human experts to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol. It is building a human escalation layer for agents that get stuck or make confident mistakes in unfamiliar domains. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
Funding and backers
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
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 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
$90k – $140k per year · Equity 2.5–5% · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
Cursor
Windsurf
ChatGPT
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Embeddings
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
OpenAI Codex
Devin
Lovable
LLM Evaluation
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
Mobile
React Native
Expo
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$140k
Typical range
$140k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $140k | $140k |
Highest paying role
Founding Engineer
$140k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~6 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
100% ▼
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Humwork over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
23
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
89/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
FastAPI
Next.js
React Native
React.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic
Expo
OpenAI
Developer tools
Claude Code
Cursor
Devin
Lovable
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI Codex
Windsurf
AI & ML
ChatGPT
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Embeddings
LLM Evaluation
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Connections
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Shared investors
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
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
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $140k Avg Salary
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