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Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
11
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Panache Ventures
Momentum
33/100
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
May 8, 2024 Partnership Microsoft and Sanctuary AI Collaborate to Advance General-Purpose Robots · The Globe and Mail Apr 25, 2024 Launched Sanctuary AI unveils Phoenix Gen 7; second launch in less than a year · canadianmanufacturing.com May 17, 2023 Launched Sanctuary AI unveils a humanoid robot called Phoenix that's ready to offer its 'labor-as-a-service' · SiliconANGLE 2018 Founded
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top 0.08%
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Hacker News stories
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Overview

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.

News

News forbes.com 1 month ago
Forbes Sanctuary AI Built A Robot Body. Now It's Also Selling A Robot Brain 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 attached to or embedded within industrial... Read More
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 attached to or embedded within industrial...
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News Manufacturing Today 2 months ago
Ten companies bringing Physical AI to manufacturing
Ten companies turning physical AI into intelligent robots, adaptive automation and more autonomous manufacturing systems.
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News Interesting Engineering 3 months ago
New robot plugs moving wires with 99.5% accuracy in factory test
Sanctuary AI achieves 99.5 percent success on a wire-plugging task, matching factory production speed with Physical AI.
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News Techcouver.com 3 months ago
Sanctuary AI Evolves Model to Offer Software for Other Robotics Platforms
Techcouver is an online publication providing real-time reporting and analysis of emerging technology news in Vancouver and throughout British Columbia.
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Blog 3 months ago
Sanctuary AI Expands Physical AI Strategy to Industrial Robotics, Demonstrating Production-Ready AI Performance
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 setting, positioned under a blurred, fast-moving conveyor belt or assembly l
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sanctuary AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
11
Stack modernity
68/100
Languages
Python36%
C++9%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch36%
ROS236%
TensorFlow18%
CUDA9%
Cloud & platforms
AWS9%
Azure9%
CUDA Toolkit9%
GCP9%
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Full Sanctuary AI tech stack 34 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
12
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
37 days
faster than 36% 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.
Leadership
29% ▲
AI/ML
21% ▼
Field & Service
14% ▲
Robotics
7% ▼
Product
7% ▼
Legal
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Smartsheet to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Embodied AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Physical AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Digital Twin to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added CUDA to stack Sep 2026
Added Teleoperation to stack Sep 2026
Added GitLab to stack Aug 2026
Added Transfer Learning to stack Aug 2026
Added JAX to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Vancouver
Vancouver Canada
HQ
Vancouver
12 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Leadership, Field & Service
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $90k – $218k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Vancouver
Multimodal AI
Physical AI
Embodied AI
Management
Smartsheet
Jira
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≈ $98k – $192k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Vancouver
Multimodal AI
Physical AI
Embodied AI
Robotics
Teleoperation
Imitation Learning
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≈ $94k – $230k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Vancouver
Multimodal AI
Physical AI
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≈ $117k – $243k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Vancouver
CAPA
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In office • Internship • Master's Degree • Vancouver
Python
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Computer Vision
Transfer Learning
PyTorch
Physical AI
Machine Learning
Robotics
ROS2
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $88k – $174k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Master's Degree • Vancouver
Python
C++
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Spark
CUDA Toolkit
Reinforcement Learning
Scikit-learn
Computer Vision
OpenMP
TensorFlow
PyTorch
CUDA
Physical AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Robotics
ROS2
Perception
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $137k – $294k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Vancouver
Python
Reinforcement Learning
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
DevOps
GitLab
Robotics
ROS2
Sim-to-Real
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Management
Confluence
Jira
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≈ $72k – $206k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Vancouver
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