Vast.ai
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Team
28
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +87% in a year
Hiring now
15
open roles
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
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2025
Team of 28 was 15 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Dec 10, 2025
Launched Vast.ai Launches Serverless Orchestration Layer for Global GPU Cloud · streetinsider.com
Apr 10, 2025
Certified Vast.ai Achieves Security Milestone with SOC 2 Type I Certification · YahooFinance
Mar 19, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or renting someone else's GPU · 179 points
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.77%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
5
best: 179 points
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How Vast.ai hires
Truth index
C 68/100
Ghost roles
53%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Vast.ai scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 53% look like ghost listings, 0% 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
Vast.ai is an American cloud computing company founded in 2018 that runs a marketplace for renting GPU compute. Owners of idle graphics hardware, from individual hosts to full data centres, list capacity on the platform, and customers rent it for machine learning training, inference and rendering through a real-time bidding and search model priced below traditional cloud providers. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.
News
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Vast.ai over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
46
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Python79%
C++43%
Bash21%
SQL14%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA57%
PyTorch21%
TensorFlow21%
NCCL7%
Databases
PostgreSQL14%
Redis14%
Cloud & platforms
Linux79%
CUDA Toolkit57%
CentOS Stream21%
Debian21%
AI & ML
LLM57%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$260k
Typical range
$80k – $350k
Open positions
15
7
Jobs
Middle
28.6%
Senior
14.3%
Staff
28.6%
Architect
28.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 2 | $105k | $80k – $130k |
| Senior | 1 | $330k | $330k |
| Staff | 2 | $258k | $240k – $275k |
| Architect | 2 | $268k | $185k – $350k |
Highest paying role
Director of Engineering
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Vast.ai
By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
15
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
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.
Product
33% ▼
AI/ML
17% ▼
Support
17% ▼
Finance
17% ▼
Sales
17% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added VLAN to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added HPC to stack
Aug 2026
Added Postman to stack
Aug 2026
Added SQL to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles
14 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 57% engineering $233k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Product, Support
1100 Glendon Ave, STE 1840, Los Angeles, CA 90024 →
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
San Francisco
7 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 71% engineering $306k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
100 1st Street, STE 2250, San Francisco, CA 94105 →
Jobs
$160k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • Los Angeles
Python
DeepSpeed
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$90k – $150k per year • In office • Full-Time • Los Angeles
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TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
DevOps
Docker Compose
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$90k – $150k per year • In office • Full-Time • Los Angeles
Python
Bash
CUDA Toolkit
TensorFlow
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
DevOps
Docker Compose
VMWare
Debian
Prometheus
Docker
Ubuntu
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KVM
CentOS Stream
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$170k – $240k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Los Angeles
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SQL
C++
PostgreSQL
Redis
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AI Agents
DevOps
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Terraform
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Linux
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$90k – $130k per year • In office • Full-Time • Los Angeles
Python
Bash
CUDA Toolkit
TensorFlow
PyTorch
CUDA
DevOps
Docker Compose
VMWare
Debian
Prometheus
Docker
Ubuntu
Grafana
Proxmox VE
KVM
CentOS Stream
Linux
DNS
DHCP
VPN
VLAN
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$230k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • San Francisco
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
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$200k – $330k per year • In office • Full-Time • Los Angeles • San Francisco
Python
C++
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Terraform
AWS
Docker
KVM
Linux
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$165k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
Python
LLM
DevOps
Linux
Cybersecurity
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SOC 2
GDPR
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SIEM
OWASP
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$200k – $330k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • Los Angeles
Python
C++
CUDA Toolkit
OpenCL
LLM
CUDA
DevOps
HPC
Linux
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$160k – $320k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • Los Angeles
Python
C++
CUDA Toolkit
AI Agents
LLM
CUDA
Machine Learning
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$200k – $330k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • Los Angeles
Python
C++
CUDA Toolkit
LLM
CUDA
DevOps
Linux
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$155k – $285k per year • In office • Full-Time • Los Angeles • San Francisco
Python
C++
LLM
DevOps
Linux
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
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