Light Wheel
Industrial Robotics · AI Training Data & Annotation
3open roles
1backers · Plug and Play
Scaling fasthiring pace, 78 of 100
Btruth index, 75 of 100
Overview
Lightwheel builds SimReady assets, synthetic and egocentric human data, and evaluation platforms for Embodied AI.
How Light Wheel hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Light Wheel scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 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
Hiring now
6
open roles
Backers
1
Plug and Play
Momentum
25/100
a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
≈ $166k – $322k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Mountain View
Python
Multimodal AI
Physical AI
Embodied AI
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Kubernetes
Robotics
ROS
LeRobot
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≈ $152k – $294k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Mountain View
Python
Computer Vision
Synthetic Data
DevOps
Linux
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Robotics
ROS
NVIDIA Omniverse
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Sim-to-Real
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≈ $157k – $302k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Mountain View
Python
Synthetic Data
Embodied AI
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Visa sponsorship
2
H-1B filings in 12 months
$173k
Median offered salary
6
Open roles in United States
2
Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
Who they sponsor
Operations research analysts
2
In the register as Lightwheel Limited, Cupertino, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
ABB 
Outlier AI 
Centific
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Aug 25, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
6
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
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.
Product
25% ▼
Sales
25% ▼
Industrial Engineering
25% ▲
Solutions
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: San Francisco
Oct 2026
Added World Models to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vision-Language-Action to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Added In-Context Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Added Claude Code to stack
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Light Wheel over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
24
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
Python
Frameworks & libraries
ROS
Isaac Lab
LeRobot
MuJoCo
Cloud & platforms
AWS
GCP
Kubernetes
Linux
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Full Light Wheel tech stack
24 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
Plug and PlayVia a fund
2741 portfolio companies
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
Lightwheel and PeritasAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring Physical AI into Perioperative Workflows
/PRNewswire/ -- Lightwheel, a Physical AI infrastructure company, and PeritasAI, a perioperative intelligence and orchestration company, today announced a...
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Report
LightWheel wird erster KI-Daten-Einhorn in Milliardenhöhe
Die Robotik-Branche erlebt einen historischen Boom. Mit Rekordfinanzierungen und neuen Produkten drängen humanoide Roboter in Logistik und Industrie, angeführt von Unternehmen wie LightWheel, Tesla und chinesischen Herstellern.
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SCオートモーティブエンジニアリング、Lightwheel社と提携しロボティクス・自動運転のAI学習ソリューションの国内展開を開始
SCオートモーティブエンジニアリング株式会社のプレスリリース2026年1月20日 14時35分SCオートモーティブエンジニアリング、Lightwheel社と提携しロボティクス・自動運転のAI学習ソリューションの国内展開を開始
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SCオートモーティブエンジニアリング、Lightwheel社と提携しロボティクス・自動運転のAI学習ソリューションの国内展開を開始業界先取り業界ニュース・自動車ニュース2026国産車から輸入車までMOTA
最先端シミュレーション技術により、ロボティクス・自動運転用AIの学習・性能向上に貢献 自動車を中心とする開発エンジニアリングを手掛けるSCオートモーティブエンジニアリング株式会社本社：東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長：山ノ井 利美は、Lightwheel社と販売エージェント・販売代理...
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Mountain View
Mountain View
United States
HQ
7 open roles 3 posted in 90 days
hires for Product, Sales, Solutions
Earlier presence
San Francisco, United States