Lightning AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$475.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$435.5M
Venture round · Dec 2025 · 9 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
48
+14 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Cisco Investments, Coatue
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
42/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Jul 27
First executive search Head of Customer Success
May 15
First role in Singapore AI Platform Support Engineer (APAC)
Dec 24, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $435.5M · SEC Form D
Feb 24, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma · 118 points
Dec 13, 2023
Launched Lightning AI Introduces Lightning AI Studios; its Enterprise-Grade Platform for Rapid-prototyping, and Deploying AI Products · businesswire.com
Oct 13, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Takeaways from hundreds of LLM finetuning experiments with LoRA · 258 points
May 25, 2023
On the Hacker News front page How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset · 498 points
Mar 30, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Finetuning LLMs on a Single GPU Using Gradient Accumulation · 104 points
Oct 12, 2022
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: How to Build a Stable Diffusion text-to-image generator (OSS)
Jun 16, 2022
Raised a round Series B $40M · led by Coatue · YahooFinance
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Dec 2025 | $435.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series B | Jun 2022 | $40M | Coatue lead, Index Ventures, Bain Capital | YahooFinance |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Lightning AI, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Saurabh GiriExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Ozan KayaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
William FalconExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Cisco Investments 
Coatue 
firstminute capital 
Index Ventures 
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How Lightning AI hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
63 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
28%
Reposted roles
0%
Lightning AI scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 28% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 63 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
Overview
Lightning AI is an artificial intelligence technology company headquartered in New York City, New York, and established in 2019. The organization provides a unified platform and the open-source PyTorch Lightning framework to facilitate the building, training, and deployment of machine learning models. It operates globally by offering scalable cloud infrastructure and development tools to individual researchers and enterprise teams across various industries.
News
Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.
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RAG 40x faster using binary quantization - a Lightning template by akshay
Make your RAG upto 40x faster and 32x memory efficient by leveraging binary quantization. Learn how to search over millions of vectors in milliseconds. Perfect for professionals seeking scalable real-time RAG applications.
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Clawdbot in the cloud, zero setup (openclaw) - a Lightning template by karolis
Run Clawdbot instantly on the cloud. No Mac minis, no local installs, no terminal access. Secure, isolated cloud environment with one-click launch and browser-based setup.
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Lightning AI and Voltage Park merge
Since 2024, the combined company has grown from $18M to over $500M in ARR, as 400,000 developers and companies choose Lightning as a simpler way to bu
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Llama 3.3 70B: API Provider Performance Benchmarking & Price Analysis Artificial Analysis
Analysis of API providers for Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B across performance metrics including latency (time to first token), output speed (output tokens per second), price and others. API providers benchmarked include Fireworks, Google Vertex, Groq, Novita, P
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Lightning AI Launches First GPU Marketplace Uniting NeoClouds and Hyperscalers, Cutting AI Costs by 70%
Lightning AI, the company building the infrastructure layer for AI development, today announced the launch of its Multi-Cloud GPU Marketplace, a unified platform that gives AI teams access to on-demand and reserved GPUs across leading cloud providers, inc
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Agent sandboxes Lightning AI
Sandboxes are safe, persistent cloud environments for agents and prototypes.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lightning AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
100
Postings analysed
62
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python39%
Go18%
SQL6%
Bash5%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch100%
Ray10%
CUDA8%
NCCL6%
Databases
BigQuery5%
Google BigQuery5%
Snowflake2%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes27%
Linux21%
AWS11%
GCP11%
AI & ML
LLM3%
Claude2%
PEFT2%
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100 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$80k – $310k
Open positions
45
37
Jobs
Middle
5.4%
Senior
70.3%
Staff
10.8%
Architect
13.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $163k | $145k – $180k |
| Senior | 26 | $219k | $150k – $310k |
| Staff | 4 | $220k | $200k – $230k |
| Architect | 5 | $270k | $220k – $310k |
Highest paying role
Research Engineer, AI/ML Systems
$310k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Lightning AI
By role, level and city, against the market · 45 jobs with pay
People
Saurabh Giri
Executive Officer
Ozan Kaya
Executive Officer, Director
William Falcon
Executive Officer, Director
Carlos Delatorre
Director
Amit Mukherjee
Director
Sam Yagan
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
48
9 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
65 days
faster than 20% 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.
Backend
14% ▼
HR
12% ▼
DevOps
10% ▼
Product
10% ▲
Finance
10%
Marketing
10% ▲
Actively hiring for Product (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Philippines
Oct 2026
Added Configuration Management to stack
Oct 2026
Added Bash to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Seattle
Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added BGP to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Apollo to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
10
Countries
3
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
San Francisco, California
27 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 22% remote 200-500 est. staff $223k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Product
San Francisco
United States
Plant / site
San Francisco, California
33 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 52% engineering 18% remote 200-500 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Product, Finance
Seattle
United States
Engineering / R&D
Seattle, WA
15 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 33% remote 50-200 est. staff $232k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
London
United Kingdom
Plant / site
London, UK
11 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 27% remote 50-200 est. staff $229k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, DevOps
Fort Worth
United States
Plant / site
DFW2 (Fort Worth)
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff $110k Avg Salary
hires for Networking, Analytics, Management
Washington
United States
Plant / site
DFW2 (Fort Worth)
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $93k Avg Salary
hires for Networking, Analytics
Singapore
Singapore
Plant / site
Singapore
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, DevOps
Lisle
United States
Plant / site
ORD1 (Lisle)
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $93k Avg Salary
hires for Networking, Analytics
Allen
United States
Regional office
DFW1 (Allen)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $145k Avg Salary
hires for Management
Puyallup
United States
Plant / site
SEA1 (Puyallup)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $80k Avg Salary
hires for Support
Sterling
United States
Regional office
IAD1 (Sterling)
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$180k – $220k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, United Kingdom) • 5+ years exp • London • New York • San Francisco • Seattle
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$206k – $217k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
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$175k – $200k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • New York • San Francisco • Seattle
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$170k – $190k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • New York
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$180k – $220k per year • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom, United States) • 5+ years exp • London • New York • San Francisco • Seattle
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$180k – $220k per year • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom, United States) • 5+ years exp • London • New York • San Francisco • Seattle
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