San FranciscoOn-site · 5–8 yrsVisa sponsorship
$230k - $300k+ equity
AI · San Francisco, California
Judgment Labs
Judgment Labs provides infrastructure for monitoring autonomous agent behavior in production, detecting anomalies like instruction drift to enable safe large-scale deployment. Founded by AI researchers from Stanford and Berkeley, the San Francisco startup has raised over $30 million from top-tier investors.
Work at Judgment Labs?
- Location
- San Francisco
- 5 roles
- Team size
- 11-50
- Founded 2025
- Total raised
- $32M
- Series A · last round May '26
- Salary range
- $225–400k
- + equity · 2 of 5 roles
- Visa
- Visa sponsorship
- 2 of 5 roles
Open positions · 5
San FranciscoOn-site · 1–10 yrsVisa sponsorship
$225k - $400k+ equity
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About Judgment Labs
Judgment Labs builds infrastructure for Agent Behavior Monitoring, enabling hundreds of teams to safely deploy autonomous agents at scale by detecting behavioral anomalies such as instruction drifts and context retrieval loss in production environments. Founded by LLM researchers from Stanford AI Lab, Berkeley AI Research, and Together AI, the San Francisco-based company is on a mission to unleash self-improving agents through its comprehensive infrastructure spanning evaluation, monitoring, and reward modeling for long trajectory agents. With approximately 22 employees, Judgment Labs has rapidly gained traction in the market, raising over $30 million across two rounds in the past five months from prominent investors including Lightspeed, SV Angel, Valor Equity Partners, and notable individuals such as Michael Ovitz and Kevin Hartz.
Culture & values
Small, high-intensity team of ~22 people
Team operates in-person because the problems are hard, the product is moving fast, and tight feedback loops matter
Engineers own problems end-to-end: talking to customers, understanding where their agents fail, defining what should exist, building it, and iterating until it works
Culture is meritocratic and fast-moving
Engineers who demonstrate strong performance can expand into applied AI work alongside the research team
Team ships quickly — interview processes close in a week and a half, and the same urgency applies to product development
AI-native company where everyone interacts with AI systems more than at most places
Funding
$32Mtotal raised
- May 2026 · Series A$32M
- Nov 2025 · Seed
Company at a glance
The team at Judgment Labs
11-50 peopleSee everyone on LinkedIn
Team breakdown
Team Distribution
- Engineering55%
- Leadership14%
- Specialized & Other10%
- Sales & Business Development7%
- Operations7%
Where the Team Studied
- 1.University of California, Berkeley
- 2.Stanford University
- 3.Cornell University
- 4.University of Waterloo
- 5.Pomona College
Team Worked At
- Together AI
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Bloomberg
- Robinhood
Location
Team Composition
22 people- Engineering and Technical15
- Consulting2 senior2
- Human Resources1 senior2
- General Management1 senior1
- Research1
- Sales1 senior1
Life at Judgment Labs
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Of 5 open roles, Judgment Labs has 5 on-site positions.
Judgment Labs is based in San Francisco.
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