Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

https://www.phaidra.ai

About the company

Phaidra builds AI control systems for industrial and mission-critical environments, with a big emphasis on data center cooling and wider industrial automation. Phaidra runs as a fully remote company and hires internationally via an employer-of-record partner. Public role pages focus on reinforcement learning, reliability, and “AI factory” style operational tooling, with a lean team taking on high-scope work. Most publicly visible hiring is senior-leaning right now, but the company publishes unusually detailed pay bands and benefits for a remote startup.

Locations and presence

Phaidra is listed as headquartered in Seattle, with a distributed team across the US, Canada, Europe, and India. The company states the work is fully remote with a digital nomad policy and periodic in-person summits.

Palpable Score

58.2

/ 100

Phaidra is a strong pick on pay transparency, benefits, and written expectations, but early-career access is thin because current openings skew senior and management. For grads, the opportunity is more “get onto a team via a rare junior-friendly opening” than a repeatable entry pipeline.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

6.5

/ 20

The company’s current live openings are dominated by senior and manager roles (for example Head of Marketing, Manager roles, and Senior specialist roles), which sharply limits true 0–3 year entry points.

Phaidra keeps “Expression of Interest” postings open (Engineering and General), but these are not the same as clearly scoped junior roles with defined requirements and start dates.

The company does not show internships, graduate schemes, or “Associate” style roles on the main job board, so entry-level access looks occasional.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.8

/ 20

The company publishes a step-by-step interview loop inside several job descriptions, including who you meet and typical call lengths.
Phaidra runs applications through a centralized ATS with consistent compliance language (EEO, E-Verify notice, and clear “apply online” requirements), which supports a predictable application path.
The company has candidate feedback describing abrupt hiring pauses and perceived pedigree bias in software interviews, which is a fairness risk for early-career applicants.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.6

/ 20

The company explicitly says training is foundational, including functional training, customer immersion, and development training.
Phaidra describes a documentation-first, async-friendly remote culture with regular all-hands and structured ways to stay connected, which helps early-career hires ramp in distributed teams.
The company does not publish junior-specific support mechanics (buddying, review cadence, or a defined ramp plan by level), so the depth of coaching for grads is hard to verify.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

16.9

/ 20

The company publishes location-tiered salary bands in multiple job descriptions and states roles are eligible for equity, which is rare transparency for a remote startup.
Phaidra lists concrete stability benefits on the careers page and job ads, including medical coverage (region-dependent), paid parental leave (region-dependent), stipends, and a home office setup allowance.
The company sets a minimum time-off expectation (minimum 20 days) alongside unlimited PTO, which is a practical guardrail that helps early-career staff actually take leave.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

8.4

/ 20

The company does not publish promotion timelines, retention data, or early-career progression examples, so outcomes can’t be scored strongly from public evidence.
Phaidra has a small number of employee reviews that praise team quality and ownership, but that’s not enough volume to confirm consistent growth outcomes for juniors.
The company’s remote-first model and senior-heavy hiring mix make it hard to find repeatable “junior to mid-level” progression patterns in public sources.

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