When you'll hear from us

We aim to review every application within 72 hours of submission and provide feedback on each of your interviews within 48 hours of completion. If you don't hear from us, please reach out to your recruiter or careers@lightning.ai directly to get an update on your candidacy.

How you’ll be rewarded

We champion equal pay for work of equal or comparable value based on the level of skill, effort, responsibility, and impact of any given role. We use Carta's Total Compensation tool to enable data-driven decision-making around benchmarks, levels, and planning. We are confident that our compensation practices are equitable, explainable, fair, and competitive, and in the spirit of transparency, we provide a compensation bands for each open role.

We pride ourselves on making sure our employees enjoy a good quality of life, no matter where they live. We offer competitive base salaries and stock options with a 25% one year cliff and monthly vesting thereafter. For our international employees, we work with Velocity Global to pay you in your local currency and provide equitable benefits across the globe.

In the US, we offer:

• 90% monthly premium contributions towards medical, dental, and vision plans for you, you and your spouse, you and your children, or you and your family, along with HSA and FSA options. Our health plans are offered through Aetna, a health insurance company with a care network encompassing 1.3 million doctors and 5,700 hospitals across America.
• Life and AD&D insurance equal to 1x salary, as well as optional supplemental life insurance for extra peace of mind
• Flexible paid time off plus 3 weeks of company-wide mandatory vacation in May, August, and December. Most of our employees take a total of 25-30 days off per year.
• 12 weeks of paid family leave for employees who have worked with the company for 6-12 months and 16 weeks of paid family leave for employees who have worked with the company for 12+ months
• $500 monthly meal reimbursement, including groceries & food delivery services
• $1,000 1-time home office build out for a desk, chair, keyboard, pair of headphones, and/or other home office supplies
• $1,000 annual learning & development stipend for classes, conferences, certifications, and continuing education
• 100% covered bike membership
• $45/month to ClassPass, a platform providing access to over 30,000 gyms and studios, as well as 5,000 beauty and spa partners, in 28 countries 
• Access to monthly equity education sessions hosted by Carta and 1:1 meetings with Certified Public Accountants so that you can take proactive measures to minimize taxes due and maximize the value of your equity
• Ability to early exercise your stock options after 1 year of continuous employment
• Opportunities to obtain an employment-based immigrant VISA for relocation every 3 years
• Membership to a local co-working space upon request
• 24/7 access to:
  • Teladoc, the leader in whole-person virtual care with access to doctors, therapists, and medical experts anywhere you are by phone or video
  • One Medical, a patient-focused on-demand primary care practice
  • Kindbody, a fertility, gynecology, and wellness service provider
  • HealthAdvocate, an employee assistance program (EAP)
  • Talkspace, a comprehensive, personalized mental healthcare platform providing access to licensed therapists for therapy, medication, assessment, healthy living support, and self-help tools
  • Headspace, a guided meditation application focused on improving mindfulness, sleep, and stress-relief