Overview
Business
AI training data annotation
Founded
10 years ago
June 2016
Valuation
$29 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#177
Company type
Private - Venture-Backed
Tags
Scale is an AI training data annotation company with 170 job openings. It is currently valued at $29 billion as a private company. The company was founded in 2016.
Jobs
Open jobs
170
TrueUp
Rank
#238
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
53
(31%)
2.
Artificial Intelligence
27
(16%)
3.
Business Operations & Program Management
26
(15%)
4.
Product Management
13
(8%)
5.
Research
13
(8%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🇺🇸 United States
128
(75%)
2.
🇺🇸 San Francisco Bay Area
102
(60%)
3.
🇺🇸 New York City
78
(46%)
4.
🇺🇸 Washington D.C.
26
(15%)
5.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
23
(14%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
LLM
74
(44%)
2.
Python
65
(38%)
3.
AWS
48
(28%)
4.
Google Cloud
38
(22%)
5.
Kubernetes
37
(22%)
Culture
Employee sentiment
Would recommend company
61%
400+ reviews
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Worse than 58% of tech co's
Approve of CEO
Alexandr Wang
61%
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
People
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Rankings and awards
Forbes Top 250 Living Innovators
Alexandr Wang
2026
Silicon Valley Defense Group NatSec 100
2025
CNBC Disruptor 50
2025
Redpoint InfraRed 100
Late Stage
2025
TIME100 Most Influential Companies
2025
Career-Launching Companies (by Aakash Gupta)
2025
Layoffs
Sep 2025 · 9 months ago
12 impacted
May 2024 · 2 years ago
Jan 2023 · 3 years ago
140 impacted20%
External research
Greylock Partners
Oct 2021
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