Market landscapes / Agents & Orchestration / Agent Execution & Sandboxing
Kernel
Browser infrastructure for AI agents. Kernel provides cloud-based sandboxed browsers that spin up in milliseconds, handle authentication and captchas, and let agents interact with websites at scale.
Agent Execution & Sandboxingkernel.sh ↗
Updated 9 November 2026
Hiring now
From Kernel's own jobs board, checked every week.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
7 of the 14 active companies in Agent Execution & Sandboxing are advertising roles. Simular has the most, with 21.
Funding
Kernel announced a $22 million Seed and Series A (combined) in October 2025, led by Accel.
Source: published announcement
Who Kernel competes with
The other active companies we file under Agent Execution & Sandboxing, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
Safe execution for agents: sandboxes, isolated environments, and the browser and computer-use infrastructure that lets an agent operate software the way a person does. Nobody will let an agent touch a real system until the blast radius is contained.
We track hiring and team changes across all 104 companies in Agents & Orchestration.
Our talent report for this sector shows how Kernel's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
I am Ben Jackson. I map this market, and I hire the commercial teams inside it: sales, marketing, product and delivery.
If you are building a team at a company like Kernel, want to work at one, or think Kernel is filed in the wrong place, put 20 minutes in my diary.
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