RunPod
runpod.io
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Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS)
AI Compute & Inference
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$118.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Venture round · Jun 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
62
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +68% in a year
Hiring now
29
+11 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Summit Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
35/100
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
Jun 25
Raised a round Venture round $100M · SiliconANGLE
2025
Team of 62 was 37 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Sep 24, 2024
Recognition RunPod Named to Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups List · benzinga.com
Nov 20, 2023
Raised a round Seed $18.5M · SEC Form D
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.47%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
10
best: 13 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jun 2026 | $100M | — | SiliconANGLE |
| Seed | Nov 2023 | $18.5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | RunPod, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Zhen LuExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Pardeep SinghExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How RunPod hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
52 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
RunPod scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 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 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
RunPod is a cloud computing company headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and founded in 2022. The company provides a specialized AI developer cloud featuring on-demand GPU instances, serverless GPU endpoints, and multi-node GPU clusters for training and inference. It operates a global infrastructure across more than 30 regions, serving over one million developers with scalable compute resources for machine learning and generative AI workloads.
News
Runpod raises $100M to build the leading cloud platform for AI developers
Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Wednesday that it hasraised $100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to $1 billion.
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Runpod hits $1bn valuation on $100M raise
Runpod has raised $100M at a $1bn valuation, a tenfold jump in two years, and says it turned down buyout offers worth more than $500M.
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OpenAI Parameter Golf: what 1,100 researchers built in six weeks
See how 1,100 researchers used Runpod for OpenAI's Parameter Golf challenge, improving a language model within 16 MB and 10 minutes.
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AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR - and it started with a Reddit post
Their startupjourneyis a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.
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Pod-first development
Develop on a Pod before deploying your worker to Serverless for faster iteration. Review configuration and operations guidance for Runpod Serverless.
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GitHub - BSVogler/k8s-runpod-kubelet: A k8s virtual kubelet that runs GPU jobs on RunPod.
A k8s virtual kubelet that runs GPU jobs on RunPod. - BSVogler/k8s-runpod-kubelet
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Fine-tuning Gemma 27B Model
A detailed guide on how to fine-tune Gemma 27B model on your own.
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Built on Runpod: How Cogito Trained Models Toward ASI
San Francisco-based Deep Cogito used Runpod infrastructure to train Cogito v1, a high-performance open model family aiming at artificial.
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Introducing Clusters: On-Demand Multi-Node AI Compute
Runpod's Clusters let you spin up multi-node GPU environments instantly, ideal for scaling LLM training or distributed inference workloads without config.
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Machine Learning Basics (for People Who Don't Code)
You don't need to code to understand machine learning. This guide explains how AI models learn, and how to explore them without a technical background.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at RunPod over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
72
Postings analysed
38
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python47%
Go42%
JavaScript29%
SQL21%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js16%
Django13%
Flask13%
PyTorch13%
Databases
MySQL13%
PostgreSQL13%
Snowflake5%
BigQuery3%
Cloud & platforms
Linux34%
Kubernetes21%
Grafana18%
Datadog16%
AI & ML
LLM18%
Claude3%
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72 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$92k – $400k
Open positions
28
25
Jobs
Junior
4%
Middle
16%
Senior
40%
Staff
16%
Architect
24%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Middle | 4 | $173k | $160k – $180k |
| Senior | 10 | $200k | $92k – $280k |
| Staff | 4 | $200k | $180k – $300k |
| Architect | 6 | $325k | $220k – $400k |
Highest paying role
Director of Sales, Americas
$400k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at RunPod
By role, level and city, against the market · 28 jobs with pay
People
Zhen Lu
Executive Officer, Director
Pardeep Singh
Executive Officer, Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
29
9 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 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.
Product
21% ▼
DevOps
14%
Sales
14%
Marketing
11% ▲
Support
7% ▼
Finance
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added Zero Trust to stack
Oct 2026
Added IAM to stack
Oct 2026
Added HIPAA to stack
Oct 2026
Added YouTube to stack
Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Oct 2026
Added Discord to stack
Oct 2026
Added QEMU to stack
Oct 2026
Added KVM to stack
Oct 2026
Added eBPF to stack
Oct 2026
Added containerd to stack
Oct 2026
Added vLLM to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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Mount Laurel
United States
HQ
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
Build what's next.
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Product
San Francisco, CA 94107
Jobs
$140k – $165k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
RunPod
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$130k – $200k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
FastAPI
Pydantic
AI/ML
RunPod
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Apply
$125k – $220k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
RunPod
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
IAM
Linux
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
HIPAA
Zero Trust
Threat Modeling
Apply
$152k – $175k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
Go
Rust
RunPod
Machine Learning
DevOps
containerd
Docker
Kubernetes
KVM
QEMU
eBPF
Linux
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
Apply
$150k – $220k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
SGLang
LLM
RunPod
CUDA
Triton
Speculative Decoding
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$180k – $240k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
Go
Rust
MinIO
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
RunPod
DevOps
Datadog
Prometheus
Kubernetes
Grafana
Amazon S3
Linux
Management
Slack
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$100k – $160k per year • Equity • Remote (APAC, United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
JavaScript
SQL
Node JS
Flask
Django
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
PyTorch
LLM
RunPod
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Docker
Ubuntu
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
Apply
$200k – $280k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
RunPod
LLM Guardrails
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Management
Slack
Apply
$225k – $325k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
LLM
RunPod
DevOps
Kubernetes
HPC
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$100k – $180k per year • Equity • Remote (EMEA) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
JavaScript
SQL
Node JS
Flask
Django
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
PyTorch
LLM
RunPod
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Docker
Ubuntu
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
Apply
$150k – $200k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
RunPod
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$125k – $180k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Go
JavaScript
RunPod
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