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Funding and backers
Total raised
$308M
1 round on record
Latest round
$308M
Series D · Apr 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
38
+8 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Amplifypartners, Compound
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
23/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Apr 23
First role in United States Commercial Counsel
Apr 9, 2018
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: RunwayML – Machine Learning for Everyone
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Apr 2025 | $308M | Fidelity Management | YahooFinance |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Amplifypartners 
Compound 
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How Runway hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
49 days
Ghost roles
32%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Runway scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 38 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 32% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 49 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
Runway is an applied research company that built some of the first usable generative video models and the tools around them. It co-authored the original latent diffusion research behind Stable Diffusion, and its Gen model series brought text to video and video to video editing into professional production workflows. The company works directly with film studios, advertising agencies and independent creators, and runs its own film festival for generative work; its research team continues to publish on video generation, world models and controllability.
News
Burnham refuses to back 'contested' Heathrow third runway
Andy Burnham has refused to back plans for a third runway at Heathrow in a break with previous government enthusiasm for the £49bn scheme. The Prime Minister said the runway was a
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Aryna Sabalenka Stuns in Runway Debut at Vogue World 2026
The WTA No. 2 player walked the Milan stage in a gorgeous Gucci dress.
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Accident: Allegiant A320 at Greenville on Sep 5th 2026, runway excursion and tail strike
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'Utter devastation': NTSB investigation underway after Amazon cargo plane crash leaves 5 dead, 5 injured
An NTSB investigation is underway after an Amazon Air cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, leaving five people dead and five injured.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Runway over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
62
Postings analysed
41
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python22%
SQL12%
TypeScript10%
JavaScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch7%
Dagster2%
JAX2%
React.js2%
Databases
ClickHouse2%
BigQuery2%
Google BigQuery2%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes10%
AWS10%
GCP7%
AWS Fargate5%
AI & ML
LLM7%
ChatGPT2%
Claude2%
VLM2%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$285k
Typical range
$90k – $450k
Open positions
36
29
Jobs
Middle
17.2%
Senior
31%
Staff
41.4%
Principal
3.4%
Architect
6.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 5 | $220k | $150k – $370k |
| Senior | 9 | $225k | $160k – $450k |
| Staff | 12 | $290k | $200k – $370k |
| Principal | 1 | $425k | $425k |
| Architect | 2 | $304k | $228k – $380k |
Highest paying role
Research Science Manager, Foundation Models
$450k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
37
5 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
45 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Marketing
28% ▼
Sales
16% ▼
Design
8%
Operations
8%
AI/ML
4% ▲
DevOps
4% ▲
Activity Timeline
+5 jobs in a week
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
18 open roles 19 posted in 90 days 6% engineering 78% remote 50-200 est. staff $253k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, Robotics
San Francisco
United States
Remote hub
14 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 93% remote 10-50 est. staff $243k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, Leadership
Seattle
United States
Remote hub
7 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 86% remote 10-50 est. staff $176k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Support, Finance
Jobs
$220k – $290k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Cursor
Claude Code
Runway
World Models
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$240k – $290k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
Rust
TypeScript
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
Runway
LLM Guardrails
World Models
DevOps
Kubernetes
IAM
HPC
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
SIEM
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$240k – $290k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
Rust
TypeScript
AI Agents
Runway
World Models
DevOps
GitOps
Kubernetes
IAM
HPC
Cybersecurity
Falco
ISO 27001
Open Policy Agent
SOC 2
Least Privilege
Kyverno
OPA Gatekeeper
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$240k – $290k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Computer Vision
LLM
Runway
World Models
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
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$145k – $270k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Runway
World Models
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$220k – $290k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Cursor
Claude Code
Runway
World Models
Analytics
A/B Testing
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$110k – $170k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco • Seattle
Python
JavaScript
Runway
World Models
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
DNS
DHCP
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
GDPR
Zero Trust
Management
Slack
Notion
Google Workspace
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$220k – $280k per year • Remote (Japan) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • San Francisco
Runway
World Models
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$270k – $370k per year • In office • Full-Time • New York
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Runway
World Models
Robotics
Motion Planning
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$290k – $360k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • New York • San Francisco
Runway
World Models
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$220k – $270k per year • Remote (North America) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Runway
World Models
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$230k – $280k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
Python
SQL
Runway
Post-training
Pre-training
Edge AI
World Models
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Financials
Total raised
$308M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | 2025 | $308M | Details |