Parallel Systems
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$103.8M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Venture round · May 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
42
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
16
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Congruent Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, in the news, 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
May 20
Raised a round Venture round $100M · Robotics & Automation News
Jun 22, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $3.8M · SEC Form D
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2026 | $100M | — | Robotics & Automation News |
| Venture round | Jun 2020 | $3.8M | — | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
John HowardExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Matthew SouleExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Parallel Systems hires
Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
59 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
33%
Reposted roles
0%
Parallel Systems 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 59 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 Systems is a freight rail technology company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and founded in 2020 by former SpaceX engineers. The company builds autonomous battery electric rail vehicles that carry a single container each and couple into short platoons, aiming to move freight in smaller, more frequent loads than a locomotive hauled train. It has run federally approved test programmes with United States railroads and targets short haul routes currently served by trucks.
News
Matt Soule, Co-Founder & CEO of Parallel Systems- TBCY
In this insightful episode of the Leaders Who Care series, the conversation focused on the journey, vision, and impact of Parallel Systems, a company aiming
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Matt Soule Says Parallel Systems Can Make Rail Profitable at 10,000 Moves Per Year
Parallel Systems has built an autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicle that could reshape freight economics in America. CEO Matt Soule says the…
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Parallel Systems Is Building the Internet of Freight
Matt Soule, CEO of Parallel Systems, joined Grayson Brulte on The Road to Autonomy to discuss how Parallel Systems.
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Interview: Parallel Systems CEO Matt Soule on building 'the world's first autonomous freight rail system'
Parallel Systems founder and CEO Matt Soule discusses autonomous battery-electric railcars, the future of freight transportation, and how autonomous rail could compete with trucking and reshape supply chains.
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Parallel Systems raises $100 million to bring autonomous freight trains into mainstream logistics
Parallel Systems is developing autonomous electric freight trains designed to automate short-haul rail logistics and compete with trucking.
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Driverless freight trains? This L.A. startup is already testing them
Parallel Systems, a Los Angeles-based company that launched in 2020, is developing an autonomous, battery-powered train to move freight.
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Sep 22, 2025 Parallel Systems shifts into second phase of testing on G&W in Georgia Trains.com Read more
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Parallel Systems over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
41
Postings analysed
18
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python56%
Rust50%
C++44%
MATLAB11%
Frameworks & libraries
Metaflow17%
PoC Library17%
GStreamer17%
PyTorch17%
Cloud & platforms
Linux28%
AWS17%
Amazon SageMaker17%
Azure17%
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41 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$172k
Typical range
$110k – $212k
Open positions
14
14
Jobs
Junior
7.1%
Middle
42.9%
Senior
35.7%
Staff
7.1%
Architect
7.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $141k | $141k |
| Middle | 6 | $161k | $110k – $200k |
| Senior | 5 | $183k | $177k – $212k |
| Staff | 1 | $160k | $160k |
| Architect | 1 | $190k | $190k |
Highest paying role
Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Perception
$212k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Parallel Systems
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
People
John Howard
Executive Officer, Director
Matthew Soule
Executive Officer, Director
Joshua Posamentier
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
16
2 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 24% 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
18% ▼
Hardware
18% ▼
Backend
12% ▲
Product
12%
Operations
12%
Robotics
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added TypeScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tauri to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Smartsheet to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows Server to stack
Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Los Angeles
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16 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $169k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware, Industrial Engineering
1245 Factory Place, Los Angeles, CA 90013
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$122k – $167k per year • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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$122k – $141k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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TypeScript
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$150k – $212k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Los Angeles
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C++
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Linux
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$163k – $212k per year • In office • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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C++
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
Robotics
ROS2
GStreamer
SLAM
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≈ $149k – $285k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
MLFlow
Computer Vision
Kubeflow
Transformers
PyTorch
Ray
Amazon SageMaker
Metaflow
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
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$137k – $157k per year • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
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C++
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$90k – $115k per year • In office • 3+ years exp • Los Angeles
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$150k – $190k per year • In office • Master's Degree • Los Angeles
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SQL
C#
.NET
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