We're hiring builders
Datalab is building the core infrastructure for how enterprises process and understand documents at scale. We move fast, ship often, and we're looking for people who do the same.
…and founding members of OpenAI, FAIR, and Hugging Face.
Our models — Chandra, Surya, Marker, and Lift — have 70,000+ GitHub stars and power document processing at frontier AI labs, Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, and government.
You'd be shipping models that lead their categories — measured on public and published benchmarks, reproducible from our repos.
- 86.7% OCR · olmOCR-bench overall
Best overall score; Chandra 2 is state of the art among open models.
Read the results → - 95.9% Extraction · field accuracy
225-document benchmark — ahead of every competing system we tested, at half the price.
Read the results → - 90.2% lift · self-hostable extraction
Our 9B open-weights model — the best small self-hostable extractor we've measured.
Read the results →
Technology
We believe in the simplest possible technology that gets the job done. Our stack is FastAPI (Python) on the backend and SvelteKit on the frontend, with Postgres and Redis behind it. For our models, training, and inference, we use Python and PyTorch. We prioritize clarity and maintainability over trends, and we ship code that thousands of developers and enterprises rely on every day.
Workplace & culture
Collaborative, low-ego, and high on GSD. We keep the team as small as possible — less politics, more meaningful work. We value in-person collaboration from our office in Manhattan's Financial District, with flexibility to work from home as needed. Our open-source-first approach lets us collaborate directly with some of the most innovative AI labs, startups, and research teams in the world.
- Vik Paruchuri
- Tarun Ram Menta
- Vlad Gorodetsky
- Ashish Uppala
- Vanessa Chan
- Alexandru Papiu
- Salary + equity Transparent comp ranges on every role, with early-exercise options.
- Unlimited PTO Including company-wide breaks for major holidays.
- Full insurance Medical, dental, and vision — fully covered.
- 401(k) + FSA Pre-tax benefits for retirement and flexible spending.
- Your best setup Choose-your-own or bring-your-own device — whatever helps you perform.
- NYC office Financial District. Weekly team lunches, quarterly offsites, regular happy hours.
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