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Funding and backers

Total raised
$13.3M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$11M
Venture round · Dec 2020 · 5 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
9
+1 posted in 30 days
Grants
$50k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
3
Calibrate Ventures, Toyota Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
70 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
14/100
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
Nov 10, 2025 Partnership Foretellix and Parallel Domain partner on AV simulation tools · engineering.com Jun 19, 2023 Launched Parallel Domain Unveils New API That Lets Customers Create Artificial Datasets, Dynamic Virtual Worlds · Tech Times Dec 9, 2020 Raised a round Venture round $11M · Venturebeat Nov 26, 2018 Won a grant $50k · CORDIS Mar 22, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $2.3M · SEC Form D 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 89 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Dec 2020 $11M — Venturebeat
Grant Nov 2018 $50k — CORDIS
Venture round Mar 2018 $2.3M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Parallel Domain Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kevin McNamaraExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Parallel Domain hires

Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
52 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
33%
Reposted roles
0%

Parallel Domain scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 33% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 52 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

Parallel Domain generates photorealistic synthetic data and sensor simulation to train and validate perception systems for autonomous vehicles, drone delivery, eVTOL and robotics. Its software-in-the-loop simulation products serve leaders in autonomy, and the company hires simulation engineers, technical artists and enterprise sales directors. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

News

News Tech Times 3 years ago
Parallel Domain Unveils New API That Lets Customers Create Artificial Datasets, Dynamic Virtual Worlds
Parallel Domain launches a new Data Lab API that lets users create artificial datasets and control dynamic virtual environments. The start-up aims to be the go-to platform for training AI models
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News Parallel Domain 4 years ago
Parallel Domain
Parallel Domain raised $30 million in Series B funding to reimagine how AI learns
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News Venturebeat 6 years ago
Parallel Domain raises $11 million to generate synthetic data for AI model training
Parallel Domain, a startup developing a platform for synthesizing AI model training data, has raised $11 million.
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News The Drive 8 years ago
Parallel Domain Wants to Create a Virtual World for Self-Driving Car Tests
Parallel Domain wants to build virtual worlds for testing self-driving cars.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Parallel Domain over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
64
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python62%
C++46%
HLSL23%
Bash8%
Frameworks & libraries
Unreal Engine31%
FastAPI15%
Flask15%
React.js8%
Databases
PostgreSQL15%
Redis8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS38%
GitHub Actions38%
Kubernetes38%
Amazon EKS23%
AI & ML
LLM31%
Gaussian Splatting23%
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Full Parallel Domain tech stack 64 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$161k
Typical range
$123k – $200k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Middle 50%
Senior 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $200k $200k
Senior 1 $123k $123k
Highest paying role Product Engineer $200k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Kevin McNamara
Executive Officer, Director
Sunil Nagaraj
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
9
0 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
51 days
faster than 27% 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.
DevOps
33% ▼
Backend
17% ▲
Hardware
17% ▼
Product
17% ▼
Solutions
17% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Seattle Oct 2026
New location: San Francisco Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Embodied AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Ray to stack Sep 2026
Added Physical AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Git to stack Sep 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Vancouver
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Menlo Park United States
HQ
Vancouver Canada
Regional office
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 67% remote 50-200 est. staff $123k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Games, Product
seen since Apr 2026 job postings

Jobs

$100k – $200k per year • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
C++
Computer Vision
Synthetic Data
Physical AI
Embodied AI
Machine Learning
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≈ $174k – $346k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
Python
Computer Vision
Synthetic Data
Physical AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
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≈ $65k – $122k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Vancouver • San Francisco
Python
Computer Vision
Synthetic Data
Physical AI
Embodied AI
Apply
$109k – $123k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Vancouver
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Flask
SQLAlchemy
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
Airflow
Synthetic Data
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
gRPC
GitHub Actions
Prometheus
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Service Mesh
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Linux
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≈ $69k – $135k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Canada
Python
Bash
Physical AI
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
GitHub Actions
Kustomize
Packer
Prometheus
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Service Mesh
Amazon EKS
Incident Management
Amazon S3
IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Windows
DNS
VPN
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
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≈ $59k – $173k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Vancouver • Seattle
Python
C++
Diffusion Models
ComfyUI
LLM
Gaussian Splatting
Physical AI
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Houdini
HLSL
Design
3ds Max
Blender
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Financials

Total raised
$13.3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $11M Details
Grant 2018 $50k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $2.3M Details