Terac
terac.com
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Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
39
+19 posted in 30 days
Momentum
29/100
hiring for its size, a new city
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
2025
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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How Terac hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
31 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
78%
Reposted roles
0%
Terac scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 78% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 31 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
Terac is an AI-powered market research and human data platform headquartered in the United States. Founded by Zachary Baker and Jack Blair, the enterprise operates an infrastructure layer connecting AI agents with verified human domain experts and research participants. Operating on a B2B SaaS and usage-based API business model, Terac automates qualitative research by using conversational voice and text AI agents to recruit participants, moderate interviews, collect feedback, and synthesize structured data insights in real time for product, marketing, and frontier AI research teams.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Terac over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
Python10%
TypeScript5%
JavaScript5%
Frameworks & libraries
FastAPI5%
Next.js5%
Pydantic5%
React.js5%
Databases
PostgreSQL5%
Cloud & platforms
API Gateway5%
AWS5%
GitHub5%
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Full Terac tech stack
25 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$135k
Typical range
$50k – $210k
Open positions
6
2
Jobs
Middle
50%
Staff
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $210k | $210k |
| Staff | 1 | $160k | $160k |
Highest paying role
Founding Engineer
$210k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Terac
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
86/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
39
21 opened / 21 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
32 days
faster than 38% 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.
Finance
17% ▼
Operations
17% ▲
Backend
13% ▲
Field & Service
9%
AI/ML
7% ▲
Industrial Engineering
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Cursor to stack
Sep 2026
Added Copilot to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude Code to stack
Sep 2026
New location: New York
Sep 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Voice Agents to stack
Sep 2026
Added Vercel AI SDK to stack
Sep 2026
Added QuickBooks to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
6 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 50-200 est. staff $160k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Backend, Product
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≈ $127k – $267k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Part-Time
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LLM Evaluation
Machine Learning
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AI Agents
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AI Agents
LLM Evaluation
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≈ $150k – $329k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Contractor
Post-training
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≈ $131k – $277k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Contractor
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LLM Evaluation
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≈ $141k – $309k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Contractor
Reinforcement Learning
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≈ $102k – $233k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Contractor
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≈ $37k – $109k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Brazil) • Contractor
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