18 open roles at Sakana AI
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Hiring quality verdict.
Sakana AI (David Ha + Llion Jones, both ex-Google Brain) is the only Japanese frontier-tier AI research lab. The Series B at $1.5B post-money in Q3 2025 (NEA, Khosla, Lux Capital) made Sakana the most-funded non-US-non-Chinese AI lab globally. Evolutionary-model-merging research is the most cited non-frontier-lab approach to model development.
Sakana AI by the numbers.
18
Verified live postings
+400%
Net-new AI hires (12-month)
Series B · $1.5B post-money
Frontier AI Research
Verified salary ranges.
Total comp · USD · annual
Who runs talent at Sakana AI.
David Ha
Co-founder & CEO
Llion Jones
Co-founder & CTO
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