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Funding and backers

Hiring now
19
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Forerunner Ventures
Momentum
26/100
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
Aug 9 Launched webAI Releases TwiL-LM, a Family of Formal-Logic Models That Outreason a 120B Model and Run on an iPhone · PRNewswire Jun 11 First sales or marketing role Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager Mar 16 Partnership webAI and Qwake Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Predictive Intelligence on the Fireground · marketwatch.com 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
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How webAI hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
50 days
Ghost roles
42%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

webAI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 42% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 50 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

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 12

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Overview

webAI is an artificial intelligence platform company headquartered in Austin, Texas, and founded in 2019 by David Stout, Tyler Mauer, and Ethan Baird. The company builds software that trains and runs large models on hardware the customer already owns, including its Navigator model building tool, webFrame for spreading models across local clusters, and a device native assistant. It targets organizations in aviation, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and the public sector that need AI without sending data to a public cloud.

News

Press release PRNewswire 2 months ago
webAI Releases TwiL-LM, a Family of Formal-Logic Models That Outreason a 120B Model and Run on an iPhone
/PRNewswire/ -- webAI today released TwiL-LM (Thinking webAI Intelligence Lab Language Model), a family of small formal-logic models at 1.7 billion and 3...
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Press release PRNewswire 7 months ago
webAI Selected as Industry Partner for U.S. Army
/PRNewswire/ -- webAI, a leading AI platform built for mission-critical environments, today confirmed its selection as an industry partner in the U.S. Army
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News therealdeal.com 9 months ago
webAI leases more space, puts its marquee on Congress Avenue office tower The Real Deal, Jan 2026
AI in the sky: Austin tech startup WebAI, now valued at 2.5B, to put logo atop Congress high-rise
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News bizjournals.com 9 months ago
AI in the sky: Austin tech startup WebAI, now valued at 2.5B, to put logo atop Congress high-rise Austin Business Journal, Jan 2026
Sovereign AI unicorn webAI's value soars to 2.5B after 'double-digit' funding round
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News SiliconANGLE 9 months ago
Sovereign AI unicorn webAI's value soars to $2.5B after 'double-digit' funding round
Privacy-focused artificial intelligence startup webAI Inc. has reportedly closed on an early-stage
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at webAI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
86
Postings analysed
27
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python44%
Rust41%
C++33%
JavaScript11%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch22%
TensorFlow22%
JAX15%
Compose Multiplatform11%
Databases
Pinecone7%
Milvus4%
Weaviate4%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes15%
GitLab11%
AWS11%
Azure11%
AI & ML
LoRA4%
PEFT4%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$115k
Typical range
$100k – $130k
Open positions
2
1 Jobs
Junior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $130k $130k
Highest paying role Jr DevOps Engineer $130k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
19
5 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 days
faster than 28% 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.
Backend
31% ▼
DevOps
19% ▲
Mobile
13% ▲
Solutions
13% ▲
AI/ML
6% ▼
Hardware
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack Sep 2026
Added Vision-Language-Action to stack Sep 2026
Added Embodied AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Sep 2026
Added arXiv to stack Sep 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack Sep 2026
Added Notion to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Austin
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Austin United States
HQ
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17 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 76% engineering 18% remote $130k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
515 Congress Avenue, Ste 2650, Austin, TX 78701
seen since May 2025 company site, job postings
Washington United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for AI/ML
515 Congress Ave., Suite 2650
seen since Apr 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $114k – $221k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Austin
Python
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
GitHub Actions
Istio
Datadog
Linkerd
Prometheus
Pulumi
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Service Mesh
IAM
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≈ $138k – $264k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Computer Vision
Edge AI
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≈ $120k – $224k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Austin
Go
Rust
C++
Threat Modeling
Web3
IPFS
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≈ $115k – $223k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
Rust
CI/CD
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≈ $130k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • PhD • Austin
Rust
Threat Modeling
Web3
IPFS
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$90k – $130k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • PhD • Austin
Python
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
GitHub Actions
Istio
Datadog
Linkerd
Prometheus
Pulumi
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
Jenkins
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Service Mesh
IAM
Apply
$80k – $100k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • PhD
Figma
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≈ $130k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Austin
Go
Rust
C++
Threat Modeling
Web3
IPFS
Apply
≈ $159k – $324k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • PhD • Austin
Python
Hadoop
Spark
Quantization
Function Calling
AI Agents
TensorFlow
PyTorch
RAG
Mixture of Experts
Edge AI
Tool Use
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $134k – $255k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
Python
C++
Weaviate
Pinecone
AI/ML
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $137k – $262k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Austin
Python
Transformers
arXiv
Machine Learning
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≈ $138k – $263k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • PhD • Austin • Washington
Milvus
Pinecone
FAISS
AI/ML
LoRA
CUDA Toolkit
Fine-tuning
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Function Calling
Computer Vision
PEFT
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
RAG
Federated Learning
Synthetic Data
CUDA
Hugging Face
Edge AI
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
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