Persona AI
persona.ai
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Industrial Robotics
Humanoid Robots
Robotics AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$92.4M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$65.4M
Venture round · Aug 2026 · 1 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
27
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Basetwo
The money's age
Fresh money
1 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
39/100
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
Aug 28
Raised a round Venture round $65.4M · SEC Form D
May 17, 2025
Raised a round Pre-Seed $27M
2024
Founded
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Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2026 | $65.4M | — | SEC Form D |
| Pre-Seed | May 2025 | $27M | — | bizjournals.com |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Persona AI Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jerry PrattExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jide AkinyodeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Nicolaus RadfordExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Persona AI hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
28 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Persona AI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 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. Its roles close in a median of 28 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
Persona AI is a humanoid robotics company building robots for heavy industry such as shipyards, steel mills and fabrication facilities. Its robots perform welding, grinding, maintenance and inspection work, and the company works with Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.
News
Is Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots? - AOL
Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies that seems to be entirely focused on making that happen. Persona AI's approach has been to carefully select a job that is e
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Inside Persona's Bold Bet On Humanoid Welders In Shipyards
Persona AI sees near-term economic viability in heavy industrial humanoids
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Persona AI Collaborates with Under Armour to Explore Performance Materials for Humanoid Robotics
HOUSTON, May 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Persona AI today announced a research and development collaboration with Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) to learn how advanced performance materials will support the next generation of humanoid robotics operating in dema
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Persona AI Announces Brian Davis as Head of Global Manufacturing
Former Amazon Robotics Executive Steps in to Lead Global Production Strategy as Company Expands
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Persona AI Announces Michael Perry as Head of Commercial Strategy
Former Boston Dynamics and DJI Executive Joins Persona AI to Scale Commercial Strategy as Company Expands Ahead of NVIDIA GTC and SXSW
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Persona AI Announces Michael Perry as Head of Commercial Strategy
Former Boston Dynamics and DJI Executive Joins Persona AI to Scale Commercial Strategy as Company Expands Ahead of NVIDIA GTC and SXSW HOUSTON, March 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Persona AI, an emerging leader in humanoids being purpose-built for heavy in
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Persona AI Secures Investment from LIG Nex1-IBK Capital Defense Innovation Fund, DB Technology Investment, HB Investment, and AIM Investment
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Persona AI (CEO Seungjae Yoo) announced on February 2 that it has secured an investment of approximately 12 billi
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Persona AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
96
Postings analysed
27
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Python63%
C++30%
MATLAB15%
C15%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch26%
MuJoCo22%
Isaac Lab15%
FFmpeg11%
Cloud & platforms
Linux15%
Spark11%
AWS7%
Azure7%
AI & ML
VLM11%
LLM4%
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People
Jerry Pratt
Executive Officer, Director
Jide Akinyode
Executive Officer, Director
Nicolaus Radford
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
26
3 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
29 days
faster than 43% 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.
Robotics
23% ▼
HR
15% ▼
Hardware
8% ▲
Operations
8% ▲
Field & Service
8% ▲
Industrial Engineering
8% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added GStreamer to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Added Vision-Language-Action to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Embodied AI to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Houston
Houston
United States
HQ
26 open roles 26 posted in 90 days 46% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Robotics, Industrial Engineering, HR
4201 Main St, Houston, Texas, 77002
Jobs
≈ $114k – $209k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Houston
Python
C++
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
DevOps
Linux
Robotics
GStreamer
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≈ $121k – $242k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
C++
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
RTOS
Robotics
EtherCAT
Sensor Fusion
Motion Planning
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≈ $125k – $251k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Houston
Python
C++
Reinforcement Learning
Synthetic Data
Post-training
World Models
DevOps
CI/CD
Robotics
ROS2
Isaac Sim
Isaac Lab
Reinforcement Learning
Digital Twin
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≈ $129k – $249k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • PhD • Houston
Python
Rust
C++
Bash
CMake
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub Actions
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
GitLab CI
CI/CD
GitOps
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Grafana
Buildkite
Bazel
Linux
VPN
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≈ $112k – $204k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Houston
C
Embedded C
Robotics
EtherCAT
Path Planning
Chips/EDA
KiCad
LTspice
Cadence Allegro
Cadence Sigrity
HyperLynx
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≈ $138k – $259k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Rust
C++
Zenoh
Pinocchio
EtherCAT
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≈ $86k – $244k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Master's Degree • Houston
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
World Models
Embodied AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Robotics
Motion Planning
Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $102k – $199k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • Houston
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
World Models
Embodied AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $104k – $203k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • Houston
Computer Vision
Vision-Language-Action
Tool Use
Machine Learning
Robotics
Teleoperation
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≈ $100k – $221k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Function Calling
PyTorch
Tool Use
Machine Learning
Robotics
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Isaac Lab
Sim-to-Real
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $99k – $194k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
Reinforcement Learning
Synthetic Data
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
NVIDIA PhysX
Robotics
ROS
Drake
Gazebo
NVIDIA Omniverse
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Isaac Lab
Reinforcement Learning
Digital Twin
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≈ $122k – $245k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
C++
Reinforcement Learning
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
ROS
Drake
MoveIt
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
Motion Planning
Reinforcement Learning
Digital Twin
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