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Products
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Growth
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Funding and backers

Team
16
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +14% in a year
Hiring now
8
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 2019 Went through Y Combinator 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Sorting Robotics, Inc. SEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Sorting Robotics hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Sorting Robotics scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 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. 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

Sorting Robotics builds robotic machines for the cannabis industry, including automated pre-roll infusion robots, and was started by former NASA roboticists. The company has shipped five products and deployed more than 250 machines, and it hires sales, mechatronics and installation staff. The company is based in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Connections

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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6314 portfolio companies

News

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sorting Robotics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
11
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
Python
C++
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Linux
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Full Sorting Robotics tech stack 11 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$90k
Typical range
$50k – $190k
Open positions
7
2 Jobs
Intern 50%
Staff 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $50k $50k
Staff 1 $190k $190k
Highest paying role Mechatronics Engineer (Lead) $190k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Sorting Robotics By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
43/100
Stable
Open positions
8
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~7 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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.
Robotics
38% ▼
Sales
25% ▼
Field & Service
25% ▼
Early Careers
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Rest API to stack Oct 2026
Added GD&T to stack Oct 2026
New location: Van Nuys Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Van Nuys
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Van Nuys United States
HQ
5 open roles 60% engineering $128k Avg Salary
hires for Robotics, Sales, Field & Service
seen since Apr 2025 job postings
Los Angeles United States
2 open roles $53k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Early Careers
seen since Feb 2024 job postings

Jobs

$120k – $150k per year · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Van Nuys
Python
Eagle
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GD&T
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$50k per year · In office · Internship · Los Angeles
Python
C++
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≈ $90k – $217k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Van Nuys
Python
Vision-Language-Action
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Linux
Robotics
Teleoperation
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$75k – $90k per year · In office · Full-Time · Van Nuys
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$170k – $190k per year · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Van Nuys
Python
Vision-Language-Action
Robotics
ROS
Sim-to-Real
Imitation Learning
OpenVLA
SpaceTech
GD&T
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$75k – $95k per year · Remote (United States, Canada) · Full-Time
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