Medra
Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics · AI for Science
13open roles
$205kmedian advertised pay
$52Mlatest round · Series A · Dec 2025 · 11 mo ago
7backers · avra, Human Capital Investment Management LLC
Overview
Medra is a physical AI company that uses artificial intelligence, robotics and biology to accelerate life science research through an autonomous robotic system for scientists. Its platform operates scientific instruments with human-level dexterity and reasons about results to close the experimental loop, and the company hires scientists, research engineers and mechanical engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
How Medra hires
Truth index
B 70/100
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Medra scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% 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
Total raised
$52M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$52M
Series A · Dec 2025 · 11 mo ago
Team
20
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +54% in a year
Hiring now
14
+3 posted in 30 days
Grants
$54k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
7
avra, Human Capital Investment Management LLC
The money's age
Fresh money
11 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
29/100
hiring for its size, 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
2025
Team of 20 was 13 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Dec 10, 2025
Raised a round Series A $52M
Sep 11, 2025
Launched Medra Launches Continuous Science Platform to Power the Scientific Frontier · businesswire.com
2022
Founded
Jan 1, 2015
Won a grant $54k · CORDIS
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 6 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Dec 2025 | $52M | — | businesswire.com |
| Grant | Jan 2015 | $54k | — | CORDIS |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Menlo Ventures 
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Jobs
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Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $151k – $290k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · San Francisco
Python
Redis
AI/ML
Computer Vision
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DevOps
gRPC
Robotics
PyBullet
MuJoCo
Motion Planning
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$170k – $210k per year · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Physical AI
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React.js
DevOps
AWS
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Physical AI
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$205k
Typical range
$100k – $350k
Open positions
8
4
Jobs
Junior
25%
Middle
50%
Senior
25%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $100k | $100k |
| Middle | 2 | $195k | $175k – $215k |
| Senior | 1 | $175k | $175k |
Highest paying role
Research Engineer, Post-training
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Medra
By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
7 ▲ 600%
H-1B filings in 12 months
$193k
Median offered salary
14
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Mechanical engineers
3
Software developers
1
Computer and information systems managers
1
In the register as Medra Inc., San Francisco, CA
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US Department of Labor · latest filing May 18, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
35/100
Slowing
Open positions
14
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
99 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
AI/ML
13% ▲
Robotics
13% ▲
Product
13% ▼
HR
13% ▲
Science & Research
13% ▼
Field & Service
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Rust to stack
Oct 2026
Added C++ to stack
Oct 2026
Added PCR to stack
Oct 2026
Added LIMS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Benchling to stack
Oct 2026
Added Flow Cytometry to stack
Oct 2026
Added Antibody Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added HPLC to stack
Oct 2026
Added Chromatography to stack
Oct 2026
Added Cell Culture to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Medra over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
32
Postings analysed
17
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python41%
TypeScript12%
JavaScript12%
C++6%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js12%
JAX6%
PyTorch6%
MuJoCo6%
Databases
Redis12%
PostgreSQL6%
Cloud & platforms
AWS6%
Vercel6%
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32 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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Shared investors
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Meta PlanetVia a fund
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News
Report
Medra Raises $52 Million Series A To Build Physical AI Scientists
Medra, a San Francisco-based company developing what it describes as the world's first platform for Physical AI Scientists, has raised $52 million in a Series A financing to accelerate the development of its autonomous laboratory technology. The round was
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Medra, a developer of AI-powered lab robots and scientists to advance drug discovery, raises $52M
Medra, a developer of AI-powered lab robots and scientists to advance drug discovery, raises $52M - SiliconANGLE
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Physical AI in the Lab: Unlocking Data for Scientific Breakthroughs
Medra is building new AI technology to empower scientists in the lab.
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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
15 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff $204k Avg Salary
hires for Science & Research, Robotics, Industrial Engineering