Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026
Sanctuary AI is a humanoid robotics company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, and founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal. The company develops Phoenix, a general purpose humanoid with hydraulically actuated dexterous hands, controlled by a system it calls Carbon that is intended to reason about tasks the way a person would. It runs pilot deployments in retail and industrial settings and has partnered with manufacturers including Magna.
It is hiring: 12 open roles, 6 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 51-200estimated range
- Open roles
- 12Alion job postings
- Website
- sanctuary.ai
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 12 open roles at Sanctuary AI. Sanctuary AI is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. It was founded in 2018.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
AI/ML is the largest family, 18 of open roles.
6Posted in 30 days50% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 12
6Roles in AI50% of open roles
1Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Rarely hires from your country
Companies like this one (Robotics, 51-200, Canada) name United States in 47% of remote postings
Canada20On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Sanctuary AI63 days
Market, same roles47 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand70
Pay14
Your chance44
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+83%
Aug 10This week
Open roles a week: 6 then, 11 now
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
AI/ML18▲
Field & Service18▲
Robotics12▲
Backend6▲
Hardware6▼
Leadership6▼
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Master's Degree 50%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 33%Bachelor's Degree 17%
6 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Full-Time 10Contract 1Internship 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Footprint
Hiring in 1 city in 1 country.
1Cities
1Countries
VancouverBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Technologies named in job postings at Sanctuary AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
54Technologies in use
20Postings analysed
68/100Stack modernity
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 0.08%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
2Hacker News storiesbest: 2 points
Aug 292026
News · forbes.com
But the top-line promise on the home page now says "physical AI for industrial automation," and the images and videos with the highest prominence show arms and hands and grippers…
Jul 302026
News · Manufacturing Today
Ten companies turning physical AI into intelligent robots, adaptive automation and more autonomous manufacturing systems.
Jun 192026
News · Interesting Engineering
Sanctuary AI achieves 99.5 percent success on a wire-plugging task, matching factory production speed with Physical AI.
Jun 172026
News · Techcouver.com
Techcouver is an online publication providing real-time reporting and analysis of emerging technology news in Vancouver and throughout British Columbia.
Jun 172026
Blog
Production-ready performance validated with industrial-level throughput at a global Tier 1 automotive supplier Two robotic arms with cables and sensors work together in a factory…
Jun 162026
Blog
Sanctuary AI's Board of Directors has appointed Daniel Friedmann as Chief Executive Officer. Daniel previously served as Chairman and assumes the role with the full support of th…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
