Critical Energy
Energy Storage · Power Grid
1open role
$200kmedian advertised pay
2backers · MaC Venture Capital, Scribble Ventures
Btruth index, 75 of 100
Overview
At Critical Energy, we’re building modular power plants that convert geothermal heat into electricity—shipped in standard containers and installed in weeks.
How Critical Energy hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Critical Energy scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
Funding and backers
Hiring now
5
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
MaC Venture Capital, Scribble Ventures
Momentum
8/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
$180k – $220k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Hawthorne
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$200k – $230k
Open positions
5
4
Jobs
Senior
75%
Architect
25%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 3 | $200k | $200k |
| Architect | 1 | $220k | $220k |
Highest paying role
Supply Chain Manager
$230k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Critical Energy
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
50/100
Stable
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
383 days
faster than 3% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Operations
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added GD&T to stack
Oct 2026
Added Siemens NX to stack
Oct 2026
Added Nastran to stack
Oct 2026
Added CATIA to stack
Oct 2026
Added ANSYS to stack
Oct 2026
Added DNP3 to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Critical Energy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
Python
Developer tools
ANSYS
Siemens NX
CATIA
Nastran
Practices & domains
GD&T
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Connections
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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
MaC Venture CapitalVia a fund
Scribble VenturesVia a fund
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Hawthorne
Hawthorne
United States
HQ
6 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 17% engineering $208k Avg Salary
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