Defense Unicorns

41 tracked roles · 15 in the last 30 days · 4 states

41Tracked roles
15Last 30 days

41 tracked roles, 15 of them posted in the last 30 days.

How they compare

Against 6 companies hiring for a similar technology mix (Runpod, Sierra Technologies, Inc., Seekr and others), Defense Unicorns posted 15 roles in the last 30 days against a peer median of 25 — 0.6× the pace.

CompanyRolesLast 30dStatesVisa filings
Defense Unicorns 41 15 4
Runpod 22 9 5
Sierra Technologies, Inc. 136 36 2 25
Seekr 33 15 2
Twenty 31 3 6 3
Arista Networks 139 36 13 236
MONGODB, INC. 90 25 11 210

Peers are derived from the data, not assigned by hand: the companies whose postings mention the most similar set of technologies. Shown only where the overlap is large enough to be meaningful, which is why many companies have no comparison here.

Their stack against the market

TechnologyTheir postingsUS openingsRank in category
Kubernetes 43 47,284 #1 in infra
Terraform 19 27,747 #3 in infra
LLMs 3 33,788 #2 in ml
Apache Kafka 3 2,603 #1 in streaming
Apache Spark 2 3,086 #3 in transform
Apache Airflow 2 1,397 #1 in orchestration
ClickHouse 2 716 #8 in warehouse
Dagster 2 623 #2 in orchestration

Market openings come from the job board's market-wide index, updated daily, so they do not depend on which postings Signal collected. Ubiquitous tools such as Python and SQL are excluded because naming them says nothing about an employer.

Visa sponsorship

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Absence of a match is weak evidence: employers file under legal entity names that do not always resolve to the name on a job posting, and only matches confident enough to state as fact are shown.

What their postings ask for

TechnologyShare of their postingsPostings
Azure 43
IMS 43
Kubernetes 43
Terraform 19
AWS 17
Docker 9
Python 8
Bash 5
Machine Learning 5
Ansible 4

Open roles

RoleLocationLevelPosted
Platform Engineer US mid 9d
Senior Software Engineer - Open Source (RD217) US senior 9d
Platform Engineer (FedD200/ FedD201/ FedD202) US mid 17d
Marketing Content Manager (SMM210) US senior 18d
Mission Director - Intelligence Community US senior 23d
Solution Architect - Autonomous Systems & Industrial Base (ComS058) California senior 23d
Mission Director - Air Force US senior 23d
Mission Director - Space US senior 23d
Mission Director - Navy/Marine Corps US senior 23d
Mission Director - Cyber US senior 23d
Mission Director - Army US senior 23d
Account Executive — Aerospace & Mission Systems (ComS050) US mid 23d
Account Executive - Intelligence Community US mid 23d
Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous and Unmanned Systems (FedD178) US senior 37d
Technical Lead - Autonomous & Unmanned Systems (FedD179) US senior 37d
Platform Engineer - FedD180/FedD181 US mid 39d
Senior Software Engineer - UDS Foundations Team (RD182B) US senior 39d
Mission Associate Virginia entry 40d
Platform Engineer - Navy (FedD174/FedD175) US mid 50d
Senior Software Engineer - Zarf Team (RD120) US senior 57d

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