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This type of non-profits h1b positions more than likely are postdoc positions, which really not a job

Why isn't a postdoc a real job? A postdoc is a professional position in a research institute working as part of a team under a more senior researcher. They're normal full-time salaried positions with career paths everywhere that I've seen them.

In the US, an academic postdoc is a training position with a shamefully low salary and without provision for advancement, somewhat analogous to a medical internship. It's a job, but not a career.

Depending on location, there may be mechanisms to preferentially hire a postdoc on as non-tenured faculty. It became more common in biomedical sciences after the recession when grad students stayed on for "postdocs" with their advisors when they couldn't find a job, and were then aged out of the postdoc.

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