Market landscapes / Model Serving & Compute / Inference Optimization & Compilers
Subconscious
Inference optimisation for long-running AI agents. Subconscious provides an API that runs agents faster and cheaper at scale, compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic models.
Inference Optimization & Compilersalso: LLM & Model Inference Serving11-50 peoplesubconscious.dev ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From Subconscious's own jobs board, checked every week.
Building its first sales team. It is advertising for its first platform engineer, the hires a company makes when it starts selling properly.
Where the roles are
Against its sector
13 of the 21 active companies in Inference Optimization & Compilers are advertising roles. Multiverse Computing has the most, with 9.
Funding
Subconscious announced a $5.1 million Pre-seed and seed in September 2026, led by MassVentures.
Source: Subconscious's announcement
Who Subconscious competes with
The other active companies we file under Inference Optimization & Compilers, sorted by how much they are hiring.
Where this fits
Making models cheaper and faster to run: compilers, quantisation, kernels and serving optimisation. Deep technical work done by small teams.
We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.
Our talent report for this sector shows how Subconscious'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
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