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News
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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$65M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$40M
Series C · Feb 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
103
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
7
+1 posted in 30 days
Grants
$50k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
4
Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz
The money's age
Long since its last round
68 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
16/100
hiring for its size, a new city
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
Feb 11, 2021 Raised a round Series C $40M · sai Mar 9, 2020 Won a grant $50k · CORDIS Feb 4, 2020 Raised a round Series B $25M · globenewswire 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
11
best: 20 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series C Feb 2021 $40M — sai
Grant Mar 2020 $50k — CORDIS
Series B Feb 2020 $25M — globenewswire
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How Labelbox hires

Truth index
A 86/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
57%
Reposted roles
0%

Labelbox scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 57% 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

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 19 · green card filings: 1

Visa details by country

Overview

Labelbox is a San Francisco company founded in 2018 that provides a data engine for training and evaluating machine learning models. Its platform combines annotation tooling, model-assisted labelling and quality analytics, and it operates an expert workforce marketplace for tasks that require domain knowledge. Customers range from computer vision teams to frontier labs sourcing human preference data.

News

Press release PRNewswire 8 months ago
Labelbox acquires agentic sales automation startup, Upcraft, to rapidly scale the human expertise powering frontier AI
/PRNewswire/ -- Labelbox, the leading data factory trusted by top AI labs and enterprises, has acquired Upcraft, a pioneer in AI-powered sales automation. This...
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News Labelbox 2 years ago
Inside the data factory: How Labelbox produces the highest quality data at scale
Inside the Labelbox AI data factory: take a look at the key tools, techniques, and processes that ensure top-quality data production, highlighting best practices for measuring and managing data quality.
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News Labelbox 3 years ago
How to leverage Google's Gemini models in Labelbox Foundry for building AI
Learn how you can easily evaluate Gemini models, compare them to other powerful foundation models like Open AI's GPT-4, and choose the best model for your use case with model foundry in Labelbox.
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News Labelbox 3 years ago
What does it mean when an LLM
LLM responses can be factually incorrect. Learn why reinforcement learning (RLHF) is important to help mitigate LLM hallucinations.
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News Labelbox 3 years ago
Using Meta's Segment Anything (SAM) model with YOLOv8 to automatically classify masks
Learn how to use Meta's Segment Anything (SAM) model with YOLOv8 to automatically classify masks.
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News Labelbox 3 years ago
How vector similarity search works
Get a high-level introduction of how vector similarity search works and how it's helping teams get access to information faster.
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News Labelbox 3 years ago
Using reinforcement learning from human feedback to fine-tune large language models
Learn how reinforcement learning from human feedback can be used to train models on tasks that are harder to specify.
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Press release PRNewswire 4 years ago
Labelbox joins Air Force
/PRNewswire/ -- Labelbox today announced it has been awarded a $950 million ceiling indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by the U.S. Air Force. The...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Labelbox over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
55
Postings analysed
11
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Python36%
C++18%
Go18%
Rust18%
Frameworks & libraries
Gymnasium18%
React.js18%
Redux18%
Databases
Google Cloud Spanner18%
MySQL18%
PostgreSQL18%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks100%
GCP45%
Kubernetes36%
AWS27%
AI & ML
LLM45%
Llama9%
Mistral9%
Qwen9%
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Full Labelbox tech stack 55 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$230k
Typical range
$200k – $300k
Open positions
5
3 Jobs
Junior 33.3%
Staff 66.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $200k $200k
Staff 2 $240k $200k – $280k
Highest paying role Forward Deployed Research Scientist $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Labelbox By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
7
1 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
100 days
faster than 14% 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.
AI/ML
50% ▲
Finance
25% ▼
HR
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added Reward Modeling to stack Sep 2026
Added Computer Use to stack Sep 2026
Added Apache Kafka to stack Sep 2026
Added Azure Data Factory to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Sep 2026
Added Edge AI to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenAI to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
7
Hiring now
1
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
San Francisco Bay Area
6 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 200-500 est. staff $242k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Solutions, Industrial Engineering
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
New York United States
Regional office
New York City Metropolitan Area
careers board
Warsaw Poland
Regional office
Warsaw, Poland
careers board
Kraków Poland
Regional office
Kraków, Poland
careers board
Wrocław Poland
Regional office
Wrocław, Poland
careers board
Noida India
Regional office
Noida, India
careers board
Fort Lauderdale United States
Regional office
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
careers board

Jobs

$140k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
Rust
C++
Databricks
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
Gymnasium
Computer Use
DevOps
GCP
Podman
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Amazon ECS
Apply
$250k – $280k per year • Equity • In office • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
Node JS
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Databricks
Apache Kafka
Google Cloud Spanner
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
LLM
DPO
SFT
PPO
GRPO
Post-training
Frontend
Redux
GraphQL
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Analytics
Azure Data Factory
Apply
$140k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
Rust
C++
Databricks
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
Gymnasium
Human-in-the-Loop
Computer Use
DevOps
GCP
Podman
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Amazon ECS
Apply
$200k – $300k per year • Equity • In office • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
Qwen
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
NLP
Llama
Mistral
LLM
DPO
SFT
LLM Evaluation
Reward Modeling
Machine Learning
Apply
≈ $166k – $347k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • San Francisco
Databricks
AI/ML
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
LLM
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$65.1M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2021 $40M Details
Grant 2020 $50k Details
Series B 2020 $25M Details