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Team
27
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
17
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Y Combinator, First Round
Momentum
24/100
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
Jun 2024 Went through Y Combinator 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
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How David AI Labs hires

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

David AI Labs scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 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

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 7

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Overview

David AI is an audio data research company - trusted by top AI labs to develop the proprietary audio datasets that power their models.

News

News research.withdavid.ai 1 month ago
DAI-S2S-ST: Evaluating S2S Model Quality with Human Preference Data
DAI-S2S-ST is a human-preference leaderboard measuring which speech-to-speech models people prefer in open-ended conversation, from 153k ratings.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at David AI Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript27%
Node JS27%
TypeScript27%
C20%
Frameworks & libraries
tRPC27%
FFmpeg20%
Next.js20%
React.js20%
Databases
PostgreSQL27%
Cloud & platforms
Scale AI100%
AWS27%
AI & ML
LLM27%
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Full David AI Labs tech stack 20 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$225k
Typical range
$100k – $360k
Open positions
17
16 Jobs
Junior 31.3%
Middle 12.5%
Senior 25%
Staff 25%
Architect 6.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $225k $100k – $225k
Middle 2 $268k $175k – $360k
Senior 4 $233k $170k – $360k
Staff 4 $275k $175k – $315k
Architect 1 $200k $200k
Highest paying role Research Scientist $360k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at David AI Labs By role, level and city, against the market · 17 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
17
2 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
33 days
faster than 38% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
HR
27% ▼
Product
18% ▼
Operations
18% ▲
AI/ML
9% ▲
Backend
9% ▼
Frontend
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Text-to-Speech to stack Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
16 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 44% engineering 50-200 est. staff $238k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, HR, AI/ML
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
New York United States
Plant / site
6 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $203k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Management, HR
seen since Jun 2025 job postings

Jobs

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JavaScript
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C
Node JS
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LLM
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JavaScript
TypeScript
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$125k – $175k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York
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JavaScript
TypeScript
C
Node JS
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React.js
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JavaScript
TypeScript
C
Node JS
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