Clarity Innovations
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How Clarity Innovations hires
Truth index
B 82/100
Median time to fill
28 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
73%
Reposted roles
0%
Clarity Innovations scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 73% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 28 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Clarity Innovations is a US defence and intelligence technology contractor based in Columbia, Maryland, that provides software engineering, data engineering and cyber operations capabilities to the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community and federal agencies. It organises delivery around eight communities of practice spanning data structuring, DevSecOps and information warfare, keeps a second office in Herndon, Virginia, and is building a web and mobile application for the US Space Force. It hires senior and principal software, platform, security and UX engineers, data scientists and program managers, and runs SkillBridge internships.
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Small AI, Large Impact
Small AI, Large Impact A Fusion-GEOINT Pipeline for Critical-Infrastructure Protection. April 2026 Over the past few decades, the amount of data our society produces has increased by more than 2 million percent, from 25 million GB per month in 1999 to mor
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Application Transformation by Clarity
Application Transformation by Clarity Many government systems rely on software that is more than a decade old, undergoing only minor modifications and patches due to overwhelming fragility and risk avoidance. A combination of operational necessity and the
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Leading Through the Dark: The New Reality of Crisis Response
Leading Through the Dark: The New Reality of Crisis Response It's 2 AM and your phone goes off. For an incident responder, this isn't a surprise; it's a lifestyle. You're plunged into someone else's worst day, on the other end of the line is panic, a syst
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Redefining Geolocation: How Clarity Brings Unmatched Precision to Cyber Intelligence
Redefining Geolocation: How Clarity Brings Unmatched Precision to Cyber Intelligence As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated and globally dispersed, the ability to accurately identify the physical location of internet-connected devices has neve
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Remembering the USS Stark: Honoring the Fallen, Advancing the Mission
Remembering the USS Stark: Honoring the Fallen, Advancing the Mission On May 17, 1987, the USS Stark (FFG-31), a U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate, was patrolling the Persian Gulf when it was struck by two Exocet missiles fired from an Iraqi aircraft. The
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Why Technical Challenges Produce Better Outcomes for our Customers
Why Technical Challenges Produce Better Outcomes for our Customers Delivery is everything. At Clarity, we focus on mission outcomes and work closely with our customers to achieve their goals. That requires extensive technical know-how, an eye for talent,
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Clarity Innovations, Chameleon complete their merger
Clarity undertakes its first significant transaction as a portfolio company of Capitol Meridian Partners.
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Capitol Meridian-backed Clarity Innovations taps Usé-Hull as SVP of growth
Clarity Innovations is a Columbia, Maryland-based provider of advanced data and cyber analytics services and software to the U.S. national security community.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Clarity Innovations over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
153
Postings analysed
93
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python39%
C++19%
SQL17%
JavaScript16%
Frameworks & libraries
Hadoop13%
NumPy12%
Pandas12%
SciPy12%
Databases
Snowflake11%
Cassandra2%
GraphDB2%
Neo4j2%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes28%
Linux27%
Azure24%
AWS22%
AI & ML
LLM11%
Claude2%
GPT-51%
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Full Clarity Innovations tech stack
153 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$267k
Typical range
$133k – $390k
Open positions
41
41
Jobs
Senior
31.7%
Staff
7.3%
Principal
51.2%
Architect
9.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 13 | $208k | $159k – $345k |
| Staff | 3 | $208k | $133k – $352k |
| Principal | 21 | $291k | $190k – $362k |
| Architect | 4 | $323k | $225k – $390k |
Highest paying role
Senior Principal, Network Engineering Architect
$390k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Clarity Innovations
By role, level and city, against the market · 41 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
48
14 opened / 22 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
31 days
faster than 41% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Security
20%
DevOps
19% ▲
Data Science
14% ▼
Backend
10%
Product
10% ▲
Analytics
5%
Actively hiring for DevOps (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+7 jobs in a week
Oct 2026
Added CMMC to stack
Oct 2026
Added EVMS to stack
Oct 2026
Added MPLS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Hyper-V to stack
Oct 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Oct 2026
Added OpenTelemetry to stack
Oct 2026
Added Calico to stack
Oct 2026
Added Amazon Aurora to stack
Oct 2026
Added SQLite to stack
Oct 2026
Added gRPC to stack
Oct 2026
Added Edge AI to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
16
Hiring now
8
Countries
2
Busiest office
Columbia
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Columbia
United States
HQ
Herndon, VA OR Columbia, MD
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 10-50 est. staff $262k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Backend, Web3
6940 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 110 Columbia, MD 21046
Herndon
United States
Engineering / R&D
Herndon, VA OR Columbia, MD
20 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 90% engineering 10-50 est. staff $272k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Security, Backend
Tampa
United States
Engineering / R&D
Tampa, FL
4 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, DevOps
Springfield
United States
Engineering / R&D
Springfield, VA
3 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $349k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Backend
Rome
United States
Engineering / R&D
Herndon, VA
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $263k Avg Salary
hires for Security
Hurlburt Field
United States
Hurlburt Field, FL
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $279k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Solutions
Annapolis Junction
United States
Regional office
Ft Meade, MD
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $292k Avg Salary
hires for Security
Columbia
United States
Engineering / R&D
Hybrid; Columbia, MD
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $227k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
San Antonio
United States
Regional office
San Antonio, TX
1-10 est. staff
Arlington
United States
Regional office
Crystal City, VA
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
Charleston
United States
Regional office
Charleston, SC
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
Lexington
United States
Regional office
Bluegrass Station, Kentucky
Homestead
United States
Regional office
Homestead AFB
Wake Forest
United States
Regional office
NC Office
Hampton
United States
Regional office
Hampton, VA
Kadena
Japan
Regional office
Kadena AB, Japan
Earlier presence
Washington, United States
Columbus, United States
Stuttgart, Germany
Jobs
$122k – $208k per year · Hybrid · TS/SCI · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Herndon
PowerShell
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Terraform
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OpenShift
Podman
Prometheus
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
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Platform Engineering
Linux
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
Zero Trust
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$112k – $190k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Herndon
Python
Go
Bash
AI Agents
DevOps
Ansible
CI/CD
GitOps
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
Linux
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$134k – $227k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Herndon
Python
Go
Bash
AI Agents
DevOps
Ansible
CI/CD
GitOps
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
Linux
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$112k – $190k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 1+ year exp · Bachelor's Degree · Tampa
Python
Java
SQL
C++
R
Maven
R
Shiny
Databases
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Hadoop
Spark
SciPy
NLP
Pandas
NumPy
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Analytics
Power BI
Management
Agile
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$94k – $159k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 5+ years exp · Columbia
PowerShell
Bash
Clarity
Terraform
Ansible
Podman
Crossplane
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
Docker
Ubuntu
Configuration Management
Linux
Windows
BGP
OSPF
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
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$146k – $248k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Columbia
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
C#
LangGraph
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
OpenAI
Hugging Face
Semantic Search
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab
Management
Agile
Scrum
QA
Selenium
Cypress
Playwright
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$146k – $248k per year · In office · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Herndon
Python
Go
JavaScript
C++
CI/CD
GitLab
Linux
Management
Confluence
Jira
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$146k – $248k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Rome
Assembly
Binary Ninja
DevOps
CI/CD
QEMU
Linux
Cybersecurity
Ghidra
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$122k – $208k per year · In office · Herndon
LLM
DevOps
CI/CD
Windows
Unix
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$94k – $159k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 5+ years exp · Columbia
PowerShell
Bash
Clarity
Terraform
Ansible
Podman
Crossplane
Pulumi
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
Docker
Ubuntu
Configuration Management
Linux
Windows
BGP
OSPF
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
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$112k – $190k per year · Remote (likely United States) · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
CI/CD
Management
Agile
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$133k – $390k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Herndon
VMWare
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Hyper-V
DNS
DHCP
VPN
BGP
OSPF
MPLS
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
FedRAMP
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