Pear VC
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How Pear VC hires
Truth index
A 94/100
Median time to fill
282 days
Ghost roles
1%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Pear VC scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 93 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 1% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 282 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
Pear VC is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed-stage investments in startups. Founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson, the firm provides hands-on support in areas such as product development, recruiting, fundraising, and go-to-market strategy. Pear has backed companies including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, and Guardant Health.
News
Now accepting applications: Pear Prime 2027
Every generation produces a small group of engineers who shape the future of technology. They become the founding engineers behind category-defining startups. They push the frontier at the world's leading AI labs and technology companies. They go on to bu
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Our investment in Gravis Robotics
We're excited to share Gravis Robotics has announced a $200M Series A. We first invested in Gravis at seed. Here's why.
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New grad hiring: Why slope, not experience is worth paying for
Over the last four years, the Pear Talent team has made more than 300 hires for pre-seed and seed founders. For most of that time, we had a pretty repeatable playbook for who to hire at this stage and why. The explosion of AI coding tools broke that playb
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Request for Startups: Ideas from iconic founders & leaders
At Pear, we usually invest before there's a product-sometimes before there's even a clear idea. We back exceptional people. But this time, we flipped the script. Instead of asking founders what they're building, we asked some of the world's best founders
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Pear VC over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
137
Postings analysed
58
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python47%
TypeScript29%
JavaScript26%
Node JS14%
SQL10%
Go3%
ABAP2%
PowerShell2%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js16%
Next.js10%
LangChain9%
DeepSpeed7%
ONNX Runtime7%
PyTorch5%
LangGraph3%
pgvector3%
Databases
PostgreSQL21%
Snowflake10%
BigQuery2%
DynamoDB2%
ElasticSearch2%
Google BigQuery2%
Milvus2%
OpenSearch2%
Cloud & platforms
AWS29%
GCP16%
Kubernetes14%
Figma12%
Azure9%
OpenAI9%
Twilio5%
GitHub Actions5%
Developer tools
Terraform16%
Docker12%
Claude Code9%
WebRTC5%
CloudFormation3%
Cursor3%
Jupyter Notebook3%
WebSockets3%
AI & ML
LLM40%
Claude3%
ChatGPT3%
DeepSeek2%
Gemini2%
Practices & domains
AI Agents41%
CI/CD26%
Machine Learning16%
Computer Use10%
Embeddings9%
LLM Guardrails9%
RAG9%
Prompt Engineering9%
Other
Fuel2%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$70k – $400k
Open positions
25
16
Jobs
Junior
6.3%
Middle
18.8%
Senior
25%
Staff
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $150k | $150k |
| Middle | 3 | $250k | $70k – $300k |
| Senior | 4 | $210k | $160k – $300k |
| Staff | 8 | $190k | $100k – $400k |
Highest paying role
SAP Technical Lead - FlowGen Labs
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
93
6 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
117 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 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.
Sales
26% ▲
AI/ML
13% ▼
Backend
13% ▼
Marketing
9%
Operations
9%
Data Science
4% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Orange
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Boston
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Lehi
Sep 2026
New location: Menlo Park
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
12
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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45 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 53% engineering 13% remote 50-200 est. staff $268k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Operations
600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
New York
United States
Regional office
26 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 35% engineering 4% remote 10-50 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 71% engineering 10-50 est. staff $132k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Security
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Backend, Frontend
Lehi
United States
Sales office
4 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Sales, Customer Success
Chicago
United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $130k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Operations
Seattle
United States
2 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps
Los Angeles
United States
2 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Backend, Frontend
Mountain View
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
Menlo Park
United States
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Administrative
Orange
United States
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Administrative
Dallas
United States
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $155k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Jobs
≈ $202k – $376k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • New York
Digital Twin
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$100k – $150k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Master's Degree • New York
Python
SQL
Jupyter Notebook
Machine Learning
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
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$50k – $70k per year • Remote (United States) • Part-Time • 3+ years exp • Boston
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
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≈ $148k – $304k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • New York
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$120k – $160k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Chicago
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
Claude Code
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
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≈ $230k – $476k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Mountain View
Python
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
DevOps
AWS
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≈ $20k – $52k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
LLM
Semantic Search
Computer Use
Management
Zapier
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
Python
LLM
Computer Use
Management
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≈ $186k – $400k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • San Francisco
Python
LLM
Computer Use
Management
Zapier
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$140k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Electron
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude Code
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
CircleCI
CI/CD
GitHub
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$150k – $180k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
Python
Java
SQL
Flyway
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
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