SandboxAQ
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Quantum Science & Computing
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$300M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$300M
Venture round · Dec 2024 · 21 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
26
+6 posted in 30 days
Grants
$3.2M
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
6
Allianz X, Amadeus Capital Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
21 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
34/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Dec 19, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $300M · Pulse 2.0
Jan 26, 2023
Won a grant $3.1M · CORDIS
Nov 1, 2022
Won a grant $75k · CORDIS
Sep 14, 2022
Acquisition SandboxAQ Acquires Cryptosense to Accelerate Delivery of Security Solutions to Global Organizations · PRNewswire
2016
Founded
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Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
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Funding rounds
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Allianz X 
Amadeus Capital Partners 
Breyer Capital 
Moonshots Capital 
Paladin Capital Group 
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Overview
SandboxAQ is an enterprise technology company that combines artificial intelligence with quantum-inspired and advanced computing methods. Its products include large quantitative models and AI simulation for drug discovery, chemistry and materials science, AQtive Guard for cryptography management and post-quantum migration, and AI-based magnetic sensing for navigation. It spun out of Alphabet and serves enterprises and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
News
GPS-Free Navigation Cleared for Attack Drones: AQNav Runs on Lumberjack in 60-Minute Install
GPS-free navigation has cleared a major hurdle: SandboxAQ's AQNav magnetic anomaly navigation software completed its first flight test on Northrop Grumman's Lumberjack attack drone in August 2026,
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AI needs to be tested in sandboxes prior to launch, says SandboxAQ's Jack Hidary
Jack Hidary, SandboxAQ CEO, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss the technology behind autonomous drones, AI safety and much more.
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SandboxAQ Completes Successful Flight Test of AQNav's Quantum Navigation Technology on Northrop Grumman's Lumberjack Attritable Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
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SandboxAQ introduces AQPotency for virtual drug screening
SandboxAQ has introduced AQPotency, a LQM designed to virtually screen and predict the potential of drug candidates without the need for a solved protein structure.
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SandboxAQ's goal to find PFAS-free alternatives for the semiconductor industry
The Silicon Valley startup developed an advanced computational method to also help find alternatives for rare-earth-free magnets, catalysts and batteries in the sector, said Stefan Leichenauer, VP of engineering.
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SandboxAQ CEO weighs in on security incidents involving OpenAI and Hugging Face
SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss security incidents involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, the sustainability of AI spending, the U.S.-China AI race, and more.
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The materials stack will determine whether America's semiconductor revival succeeds
As the AI revolution accelerates, semiconductors have become the most critical hardware enabling the compute, memory, and connectivity required to strengthen sovereign AI. The United States has made an historic commitment to rebuilding semiconductor manuf
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SandboxAQ, Led by CEO Jack Hidary, Publishes Spin-Aware Catalysis AI Research
/PRNewswire/ -- SandboxAQ has published peer-reviewed research in npj Computational Materials, a Nature Portfolio journal, introducing a machine learning...
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Shadow AI morphs into shadow operations
In 2026, AI threats shift from data leaks to operational chaos. Shadow agents with high-privilege access risk enterprise integrity without DevSecOps oversight.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at SandboxAQ over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
66
Postings analysed
40
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python55%
SQL5%
C++3%
Go3%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch30%
JAX23%
NumPy15%
TensorFlow13%
Databases
BigQuery3%
Google BigQuery3%
Snowflake3%
Cloud & platforms
AWS20%
GCP20%
Weights & Biases18%
Kubernetes15%
AI & ML
LLM10%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$252k
Typical range
$147k – $420k
Open positions
26
26
Jobs
Middle
11.5%
Senior
50%
Staff
26.9%
Architect
11.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 3 | $228k | $228k – $252k |
| Senior | 13 | $246k | $147k – $354k |
| Staff | 7 | $276k | $181k – $324k |
| Architect | 3 | $306k | $168k – $420k |
Highest paying role
Chief Scientist, Magnets
$420k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at SandboxAQ
By role, level and city, against the market · 26 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
26
6 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
78 days
faster than 17% 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.
AI/ML
22% ▼
Backend
11% ▼
Design
11% ▲
HR
11%
Legal
11%
DevOps
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Rollup to stack
Oct 2026
Added Webflow to stack
Sep 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Sep 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Sep 2026
Added Snowflake to stack
Sep 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Palo Alto
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United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 200-500 est. staff $228k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Tarrytown
United States
Regional office
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303 South Broadway, Tarrytown, 10591
Jobs
$138k – $258k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
AI Agents
Braintrust
Design
Webflow
Management
Service Desk
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$115k – $216k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • United States
AI Agents
Braintrust
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Design
Figma
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$134k – $252k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • PhD • United States
Python
JAX
PyTorch
Braintrust
Machine Learning
DevOps
HPC
Management
Agile
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$122k – $228k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Braintrust
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
A/B Testing
Looker
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$163k – $306k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
AI Agents
LLM
Braintrust
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$189k – $354k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Braintrust
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$122k – $228k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • PhD • Palo Alto
Python
Go
Braintrust
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Terragrunt
Datadog
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch
Linux
Cybersecurity
GDPR
HIPAA
Threat Modeling
SBOM
PKI
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$134k – $252k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • PhD
Python
Braintrust
Machine Learning
DevOps
HPC
Management
Agile
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$173k – $324k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp
Braintrust
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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$147k – $276k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
Braintrust
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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$163k – $306k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • PhD • United States
Python
Braintrust
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$89k – $156k per year • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Weights & Biases
Embeddings
JAX
PyTorch
GNN
Braintrust
Knowledge Graph
Machine Learning
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