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Reducto

Reducto

Ingests data for LLMs and RAG

Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

Full-Time
$150k - $300k/yr
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person

About the job

Requirements
  • Strong Python skills and a background in systems engineering.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and distributed training frameworks.
  • At least 3 years of experience.
Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain the training and inference stack, emphasizing fast training iteration, flexibility for exploring new methods, and high-performance inference.
  • Develop benchmarks for training and inference stacks to identify bottlenecks.
  • Explore state-of-the-art advances in training and inference and apply them.
  • Design systems for scaling model training across multi-node, multi-GPU environments with strong reliability and observability.
  • Scale distributed training and inference workloads across large GPU clusters while improving utilization, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Build tooling, abstractions, and observability that help machine learning engineers move faster from experiment to production.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
  • Meaningful development experience in open-source training and inference stacks.
  • Experience setting up distributed inference across hundreds to thousands of GPUs.

About the company

Reducto.ai helps large organizations handle big volumes of data by ingesting, parsing, and chunking documents so that information is easy to retrieve with large language models. Its system breaks down complex documents into meaningful chunks and extracts structured data, making it easier to feed relevant content into retrieval-augmented generation workflows that work with any vector database. The product works by processing pages, applying layout-based chunking and data extraction, and delivering organized content ready for LLM queries, with options for automatic feature parsing as an add-on. The company differentiates itself by offering enterprise-grade, scalable data processing with dedicated compute resources and tiered subscription plans based on page volumes, plus value-added features for large workloads. The goal is to help businesses improve RAG performance and decision-making by turning vast document collections into searchable, usable data.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$108M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • Reducto cut r-1 pricing to 1 cent per page on September 1, 2026.
  • The company offered $5,000 migration credits, accelerating switches from older parsers in 2026.
  • Opennote joined Reducto this week, expanding document intelligence toward learning and workflow integration.

What critics are saying

  • LlamaParse, Unstructured, Docling, and Mistral OCR are compressing Reducto's pricing power in 2026.
  • Reducto still lacks business-user workflows and governance, pushing enterprises toward full-stack rivals.
  • If r-1's preview accuracy stalls, Reducto becomes a commodity parser by 2027.

What makes Reducto unique

  • September 2026 r-1 unifies OCR, layout, tables, grounding, and citations in one parse.
  • Reducto processes more than a billion pages monthly for Harvey, Scale AI, and Fortune 10s.
  • The September 16, 2026 New York office deepens enterprise sales beside East Coast customers.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-8%

1 year growth

-7%

2 year growth

4%
PR Newswire
Sep 17th, 2026
Reducto opens New York office to support $108M-funded document platform expansion

Reducto, the agentic document platform, has opened a New York City office to expand its East Coast presence and support enterprise customers in the region. The company, which raised more than $108 million in total funding last year, now processes billions of pages for major enterprises and AI teams. The San Francisco-based firm recently released r-1, a unified parsing model, and is expanding physically to better serve its growing customer base. Reducto works closely with customers to integrate document intelligence into production workflows, addressing complex accuracy requirements. The company is actively hiring for the New York office, with openings including Enterprise Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, and Solutions Engineers. Reducto's platform converts complex documents into structured data for AI agents and document-intensive workflows.

PR Newswire
Sep 1st, 2026
Reducto launches r-1 frontier parsing model for complex documents at 1¢ per page

Reducto has launched r-1, a document parsing model that converts complex PDFs, scans, and spreadsheets into structured data for AI systems at 1¢ per page. The company says r-1 reduces parsing errors by up to 20% compared with existing tools whilst costing up to six times less than multi-tool alternatives. The model handles documents where meaning is encoded in tables, handwriting, formatting, and layout. It combines layout detection, reading order, tables, formatting, and citations in a single model, eliminating the need for multiple tools. Reducto is offering up to $5,000 in credits for organisations to test r-1 on difficult documents. The company has raised more than $108 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital, processing over a billion pages monthly.

DEV Community
May 24th, 2026
Reducto raises $108M from a16z for document parsing as alternatives target full-stack processing

DokuBrain, an intelligent document processing platform, has positioned itself as a comprehensive alternative to Reducto, which recently raised $108 million from Andreessen Horowitz. Whilst Reducto excels at parsing complex PDFs into LLM-ready JSON for AI pipelines, it lacks business user interfaces, workflow automation and governance features. DokuBrain offers document classification across 16+ types, hybrid search capabilities, RAG Q&A with citations, PII detection and audit trails. The platform includes both API access and a business user interface, addressing needs beyond pure parsing. It's self-hostable and targets SMBs in finance, legal and operations sectors. Other alternatives include LlamaParse for RAG-focused pipelines within the LlamaIndex ecosystem, and Nanonets for finance-specific document workflows. Reducto's credit-based pricing starts at $300 monthly for parsing, but costs can exceed $2,000 for high-volume processing.

American Bazaar, Inc.
May 11th, 2026
Reducto acquires Opennote to expand document intelligence capabilities

Reducto has acquired AI learning platform Opennote to expand its document intelligence capabilities, the companies announced this week. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 2023, Reducto develops tools combining optical character recognition with vision-language models to convert unstructured files into AI-readable data. The company raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz last year, bringing total funding to over $100 million. Opennote, launched earlier this year, offered AI-powered learning tools for students, including personalised tutoring and note organisation. The platform had attracted over 50,000 users. The acquisition strengthens Reducto's work on "document agents", AI systems designed to interpret and act on large volumes of unstructured information. The Opennote team will join immediately to develop products focused on extraction and AI workflow integration.

FinSMEs
Oct 14th, 2025
Reducto Raises $75M in Series B Funding

Reducto raises $75M in Series B funding. Reducto, a San Francisco, CA-based AI document intelligence platform, raised $75M in Series B funding round. The round, which brought Reducto's total funding to date to $108M. was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from existing investors Benchmark, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and YCombinator. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate development across model research and product capabilities, and scale adoption across both enterprise and the next generation of AI teams. Led by Adit Abraham, co-founder and CEO, and Raunak Chowdhuri, co-founder and CTO, Reducto is a solution for turning complex documents into AI-ready inputs. Since its founding two years ago, the company has advanced a new standard for document understanding by combining traditional optical character recognition (OCR) with modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs), enabling systems to read documents as a human would. Customers range from AI-native startups, including Harvey, Rogo, and Scale AI, to global financial institutions and Fortune 10 enterprises. These companies use it to handle their most complex and mission-critical document workflow, such as, converting pdfs with redlines to text in legal workflows, extracting complex charts for financial due diligence, or high-stakes figure extraction for healthcare decisions.