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Lightning AI

Lightning AI

Cloud-based AI development and deployment platform

Senior People Partner - Non-Tech

Full-TimePosted on 8/18/2026
$160k - $180k/yr

+ Discretionary bonus + Equity component

Senior, Expert
New York, NY, USA
Hybrid

Hybrid work model applies to office-based teams.

About the job

Requirements
  • 8+ years in People Partnering or Human Resources Business Partner roles, with direct experience partnering with senior business leaders.
  • A track record of influencing senior leaders on organizational design, performance, and talent decisions.
  • Sharp employee relations judgment and the ability to own and resolve high-stakes, complex situations.
  • Experience driving compensation, promotion, and leveling decisions across business functions.
  • Experience supporting globally distributed teams and navigating multi-country complexity.
  • Comfort moving quickly through ambiguity while creating practical structure and clarity.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills across senior audiences.
  • Exposure to international employment models or global expansion work.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with senior business leaders to drive clear, consistent decisions on organizational design, team structure, leveling, promotions, and compensation.
  • Own complex employee relations and performance situations end-to-end, including coaching leaders through performance management, role transitions, and exits.
  • Improve manager capability across the business through sharper feedback, better performance conversations, and stronger talent decisions.
  • Partner with Talent to improve hiring quality through role design, leveling frameworks, and evaluation practices.
  • Identify friction and risk in people processes before they become problems, and build pragmatic, scalable fixes alongside Legal, Total Rewards, and Finance.
Desired Qualifications
  • Deep familiarity with career frameworks and compensation models.
  • Experience building or evolving people systems inside a scaling, AI-native company.
  • Experience supporting globally distributed go-to-market, data center, or business organizations.
  • SPHR or comparable certification.
  • A track record of designing or improving compliance-focused programs that measurably reduce organizational risk.

About the company

Lightning AI builds a cloud-based platform for AI development that covers the full lifecycle from ideation to deployment. It provides a browser-based environment called AI Studio, a virtual laptop with persistent storage and configurable environments, enabling users to code on CPUs, debug on GPUs, and scale to multi-node deployments without local setup. The platform supports tools like PyTorch Lightning, Fabric, Lit-GPT, and torchmetrics to help data scientists and developers prototype, train on GPUs, and optimize models. Pricing is subscription-based, targeting enterprises and individual developers who need robust, scalable AI development capabilities. The goal is to streamline AI creation and deployment by simplifying access to compute, tooling, and scalable infrastructure in one cloud-based workspace.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$108.6M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • January 2026 merger lifted combined ARR from $18 million to over $500 million.
  • Lightning serves 400,000 developers and companies, creating strong adoption momentum.
  • July 2026 strategy hiring signals enterprise expansion through hyperscalers and ISV channels.

What critics are saying

  • $500 million ARR includes GPU rentals; compute commoditization crushes margins by 2027.
  • CoreWeave, Nebius, AWS, and Nvidia can bundle compute and tooling, squeezing Lightning.
  • Lightning depends on Meta and NVIDIA ecosystems; platform shifts would erode PyTorch-led demand.

What makes Lightning AI unique

  • PyTorch Lightning gives Lightning 400,000 developers and companies a familiar workflow.
  • January 2026 merger added 35,000-plus NVIDIA GPUs across six U.S. data centers.
  • Peter Bershatsky joined July 2026 to deepen hyperscaler and systems-integrator partnerships.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Flexible Paid Time Off

Paid Family Leave

Phone/Internet Stipend

Home Office Stipend

Professional Development Budget

Gym Membership

Mental Health Support

Stock Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

14%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

0%
International Association for Cryptologic Research
Sep 17th, 2026
IACR news item: 17 september 2026.

IACR news item: 17 september 2026. Rong qian, mengrun chen, yu cheng, yuchang zhang, zengli guo. ePrint Report Lightning's BOLT 12 (offers, onion messages, blinded paths) is the largest addition to the Lightning protocol suite, and it is rolling out now. The specification changed three times in 2026, the community is actively debating its privacy posture, and its newest mechanism, Payer Proofs, landed in July 2026 without any analysis. We give the offer family its first formal treatment, covering the full lifecycle from request to receipt, pinned to specification commits e20a924/1528972 and machine-checked in twenty-two ProVerif models that each converge within seconds. The results read as a map rather than a checklist: the family's privacy and integrity rest on seven bindings, removable assumptions whose removal consequences we check row by row. Receiver anonymity and payer-payee unlinkability hold under unbounded sessions and corrupted path nodes, and every protocol-level attack we exhibit lands on an assumption the specification already leans on out-of-band. The map's structure is itself the finding. The blinding key chain, designed for unlinkability, authenticates recipient-side transit for free, while the payer side's delivery binding rests on implementation discipline alone. The newest part of the specification, its payment receipts, turns out to hide a precise disclosure boundary. We close with six testable recommendations for the BOLTs repository. Additional news items may be found on the IACR news page.

Associated Press
Jul 1st, 2026
Lightning AI hires ex-AWS and Confluent executive Peter Bershatsky as VP of strategy

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The Post and Courier
May 21st, 2026
LiveKit appoints Tom Davies as Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate enterprise growth.

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FYIsoft
Apr 30th, 2026
PyTorch Lightning and intercom client suffer supply chain attack to steal credentials.

PyTorch Lightning and intercom client suffer supply chain attack to steal credentials. By April 30, 2026 No Comments 4 Mins Read Ravi LakshmananApril 30, 2026Supply chain attacks/malware In yet another software supply chain attack, attackers compromised the popular Python package Lightning and pushed two malicious versions to perform credential theft. According to Aikido Security, OX Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both published on April 30, 2026. The campaign is being assessed as an extension of the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain incident that targeted SAP-related npm packages on Wednesday. As of this writing, the project is isolated by the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository administrator. PyTorch Lightning is an open source Python framework that provides a high-level interface to PyTorch. This open source project has over 31,100 stars on GitHub. "The malicious package contains a hidden _runtime directory containing a downloader and an obfuscated JavaScript payload," Socket said. "The execution chain runs automatically when a Lightning module is imported, with no additional action required by the user after installation and import." This attack chain paves the way for a Python script ('start.py') to download and execute the Bun JavaScript runtime, which is used to execute an 11 MB obfuscated malicious payload ('router_runtime.js') for comprehensive credential theft. The project's management confirmed that "we are aware of this issue and are actively investigating it." It is not clear at this time how the incident occurred, but it has been suggested that the project's GitHub account may have been compromised. From the collected credentials, the GitHub token is validated against 'api.github'.[.]com/user" endpoint to inject a worm-like payload into up to 50 branches pulled from all repositories that the token can write to. "This operation is an upsert; it creates a file that doesn't yet exist and silently overwrites the file that does exist," Socket added. "No pre-checking of existing content is performed. All tainted commits are created using a hard-coded ID designed to impersonate Anthropic's Claude Code." Separately, the malware implements an npm-based propagation vector that modifies the developer's local npm package using a post-installation hook in the "package.json" file to invoke the malicious payload, increment the patch version number, and repack the .tgz tarball. When unwitting developers publish modified packages from their local environment, they become available on npm and from there malware can reach downstream user systems. In the meantime, FySelf Functionalities recommend blocking Lightning versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 and removing them from developer systems if they are already installed. It is also important to downgrade to the latest known clean version 2.6.1 and rotate any exposed credentials in the affected environment. This supply chain attack is the latest addition to a long list of breaches carried out by the threat actor known as TeamPCP. TeamPCP launched the Onion website on the dark web after its account was suspended by X for violating the platform's rules. He also praised LAPSUS$ as "a good partner of ours and has been deeply involved throughout this operation." The group also emphasized that it has "never used the VECT encryption tool and owns its own private locker, CipherForce," following a Check Point Research report on vulnerabilities discovered in the ransomware encryption process. Intercom npm packages compromised as part of Mini Shai-Hulud. In a related development, it was revealed that intercom-client version 7.0.4 was compromised as part of the mini Shai-Hulud campaign in a manner similar to SAP packages that used pre-installation hooks to trigger execution of credential-stealing malware. "This overlap is significant because the SAP CAP campaign was linked to TeamPCP activity based on shared technical details, including unique payload implementation patterns, GitHub-based leaks, credential harvesting across developer and CI/CD environments, and similarities to previous attacks impacting Checkmarx, Bitwarden, Telnyx, LiteLLM, and Aqua Security Trivy," Socket said.

Voltage Park
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Lightning AI and Voltage Park Complete Merger to Create the First Cloud Built for AI

Voltage Park merges with Lightning AI. Since 2024, the combined company has grown from $18M to over $500M in ARR, as 400,000 developers and companies choose Lightning as a simpler way to build and run AI.

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