Foundation models startups hiring now

Mistral AI

Paris, FR · Series C

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. The company partners with enterprises in high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector to co-create customized AI systems.

279 open roles8% remote

Cohere

Toronto, CA · Late Stage Venture

Cohere builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products for enterprises. Its platform offers generative models for text and reasoning, speech recognition, and tools for embedding and reranking data to improve search and discovery.

104 open roles69% remote

Together AI

San Francisco, US · Series B

Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative AI models. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools.

70 open roles24% remote

Skild AI

Pittsburgh, US · Series C

Skild AI builds a unified, omni-bodied AI foundation model called Skild Brain that can control any robot for any task.

44 open roles

Thinking Machines Lab

San Francisco, US · Seed

Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company.

43 open roles0% remote

Reflection

New York, US · Series B

Reflection is a research lab that builds open foundation models and software agents. Its first product is Asimov, a code-comprehension agent for engineering teams. The company also offers a Coding Agent API that automates end-to-end engineering tasks.

43 open roles0% remote

Hark

San Jose, US · Series A

Hark is an artificial intelligence company developing highly intelligent, multimodal AI systems and native hardware devices designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines. The company is building foundation models, software systems, native hardware, and new interfaces together as a single vertically integrated platform.

42 open roles0% remote

Rhoda ai

Palo Alto, US · Series A

Rhoda AI builds a new class of robot foundation model designed to bring general intelligence into the physical world. The company develops generalist intelligent robots that own the full robotics stack from hardware to foundation world models.

39 open roles0% remote

Sarvam AI

Bengaluru, IN · Series A

The company is developing India’s full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India.

39 open roles3% remote

WRITER

San Francisco, US · Series C

WRITER provides an enterprise AI agent platform for building and deploying AI agents grounded in company data and powered by its own Palmyra LLMs. The platform includes products like WRITER Agent, Playbooks, AI Studio, and Connectors for IT and business teams.

36 open roles0% remote

Physical Intelligence

San Francisco, US

Physical Intelligence develops foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and physically-actuated devices. Its flagship model, π0, is a generalist robot policy model designed to allow robots to learn and perform physical tasks in real-world environments.

28 open roles0% remote

Cartesia

San Francisco, US · Series B

Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. The company builds its models on State Space Models (SSMs), a new primitive for low latency, long-context reasoning, and greater efficiency at scale.

23 open roles0% remote

Liquid AI

Cambridge, US · Series A

Liquid AI builds general-purpose AI systems that run efficiently across deployment targets, from data center accelerators to on-device hardware. It partners with enterprises across consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services.

20 open roles30% remote

Isomorphic Labs

London, GB · Series B

Isomorphic Labs is an AI-first drug design and development company that transforms drug discovery to design and evaluate new medicines. The company has built a world-leading AI drug design engine comprising foundational AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities.

19 open roles0% remote

Sakana AI

Tokyo, JP · Series B

Sakana AI develops frontier models, model APIs, conversational applications, translation tools, and autonomous research software.

19 open roles0% remote

Causal Labs

San Francisco, US · Seed

Causal Labs is building a Large Physics foundation Model (LPM) to learn causality through physics and weather.

18 open roles0% remote

Scout AI

Sunnyvale, US · Series A

Scout AI builds Fury, a foundation model for unmanned warfare that transforms uncrewed ground, air, sea, and space platforms into intelligent, collaborative teammates. The company also developed Ox, a C2-based autonomous vehicle orchestrator, and publicly demonstrated a fully autonomous, end-to-end strike mission executed by AI agents.

18 open roles100% remote

The Allen Institute for AI

burton, US

The Allen Institute for AI develops open AI models for language, images, and video and gives researchers access to model training resources.

16 open roles0% remote

Generalist

San Mateo, US · Series B

Generalist builds embodied foundation models for general-purpose robots, starting with a focus on dexterity. The company's GEN-1 model is a hardware-agnostic robotics foundation model delivering high-reliability, fast execution on dexterous tasks.

15 open roles0% remote

Odyssey

Palo Alto, US · Series B

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons. Its main product, Explorer, is a generative world model that can transform a single 2D image into a complete, interactive 3D world in minutes. This technology is designed for creators in the film and gaming industries.

15 open roles0% remote

Zyphra

Palo Alto, US · Series A

Zyphra is a full-stack platform delivering advanced AI innovations from Zyphra Research to developers, enterprises, and frontier AI hyperscalers. It is an open-source and open-science artificial intelligence company that develops multimodal general agents combining advanced neural architectures, long-term memory, reinforcement learning, and continual learning.

15 open roles0% remote

Titan AI

New York City, US

Titan builds AI software for banks: purpose-built small language models, a banking ontology, and AI bankers that financial institutions can trust. The platform includes a secure chat interface (Titan Foundry), a proprietary small language model trained exclusively on banking (Titan's Banking Model), and AI-powered digital workers that automate high-volume workflows (Titan Agents).

13 open roles100% remote

Radical Numerics

San Francisco, US · Seed

Radical Numerics is an AI research lab building general biological intelligence. Its team created Evo and Evo 2, generative genomics models used to create real gene-editing tools and the first whole genomes designed entirely by AI.

13 open roles0% remote

Boltz

Boston, US · Seed

Boltz builds AI-powered molecular modeling tools to make biology programmable and accelerate drug discovery. The company delivers these capabilities through Boltz Lab, a platform for running its models and design agents as production-grade tools.

13 open roles92% remote

SpAItial

Munich, DE · Seed

SpAItial builds Echo, a frontier world model that turns images and prompts into persistent, explorable 3D Gaussian Splat worlds. The SpAItial API provides direct access to Echo for agents, tools, simulations, and creative systems.

13 open roles0% remote

Pluralis Research

Melbourne, AU · Seed

Pluralis carries out foundational research on Protocol Learning: multi-participant training of foundation models where no single participant has a full copy of the model. The purpose of Protocol Learning is to facilitate the creation of community-trained and community-owned frontier models with self-sustaining economics.

12 open roles100% remote

General Intuition

New York, US · Series A

General Intuition builds large action models and world models that can perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments. The company demonstrated this with a quadruped robot that needed only eight minutes of real-world data to fine-tune after pretraining in its broader system.

12 open roles0% remote

World Labs

San Francisco, US

World Labs focuses on developing spatial intelligence through Large World Models (LWMs) that allow artificial intelligence to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world.

11 open roles0% remote

Mirage

New York City, US · Series C

Mirage is an AI-native video platform that intelligently orchestrates production and editing through natural language. It enables users and businesses to generate, edit, and enhance videos using foundation models.

11 open roles

Genesis Molecular AI

Burlingame, US · Series B

Genesis Molecular AI is pioneering foundation models for molecular AI to unlock a new era of drug design and development. Its generative and predictive AI platform, GEMS (Genesis Exploration of Molecular Space), integrates AI and physics into industry-leading models to generate and optimize drug molecules.

10 open roles50% remote