Draper
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Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
30 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
88%
Reposted roles
0%
Draper scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 51 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 88% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 30 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
Draper is an American non-profit research and development laboratory founded in 1932 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and made independent in 1973. It designs guidance, navigation and control systems, and its predecessor built the Apollo guidance computer that landed astronauts on the Moon, work that shaped the whole field of inertial navigation. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it works for defence, intelligence, space and biomedical customers, and its non-profit status lets it act as a trusted independent adviser on programmes where a contractor with products to sell would face a conflict.
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Jack Draper has already shown how good he can be - now comes the hard part
It is the 9th June 2025. Jack Draper has climbed to a career high ranking of fourth in the world. He has been touted to challenge the likes of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner after some incredible runs on the big stage.
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William Draper, venture capital pioneer in Palo Alto, dies at 98
William Draper III, who brought Harvard Business School savvy to the earliest stirrings of Silicon Valley as a co-founder with his father of the West Coast's first venture-capital firm, died on September 8. He was 98.
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Draper targets 2027 return after 'complicated injury'
Jack Draper did not appear at any of the grand slams in 2026, but has set his sights on returning to the court early next year.
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Draper Celebrates 50 Years in Technology Square
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - On September 10, 2026, Draper celebrated 50 years as an anchor tenant in Technology Square. It was on this date in 1976 that…...
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NASA's GRITSS Mission Reaches Orbit with Support from Draper
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - On July 7th, NASA's Geodetic Reference Instrument Transponder for Small Satellites (GRITSS) was successfully placed into…...
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Draper Achieves CMMC Level 2 Certification
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Draper today announced it has received its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 third-party…...
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The Ultimate Claude Code Parallelisation Guide (2026)
How we run five Claude Code sessions at once at Draper: git worktrees, Docker, Linear, tmux, and a small CLI we call swt.
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Jessi Draper Net Worth
What Is Jessi Draper's Net Worth? Jessi Draper is an American hairstylist, entrepreneur, social media personality, and reality television star who has a net worth of $5 million.
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Draper Scholars Program Grows to More Than 150 Graduate Students with Its Next Class
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Draper announced its next class of Draper Scholars for the academic year beginning this fall. The group of 42 new master's…...
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Edward Brennan Joins Draper's Strategy Leadership Team
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- Draper today announced the addition of Edward Brennan to its strategy team. As Principal Director of Strategic…...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Draper over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
94
Postings analysed
150
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
MATLAB49%
Python41%
C++31%
Rust8%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js2%
UVM2%
ROS1%
ROS21%
Databases
PostgreSQL1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux10%
Windows9%
GitLab8%
RTOS3%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$140k – $340k
Open positions
158
153
Jobs
Junior
1.3%
Middle
22.9%
Senior
44.4%
Staff
7.2%
Principal
21.6%
Architect
2.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $180k | $140k – $220k |
| Middle | 35 | $156k | $150k – $275k |
| Senior | 68 | $220k | $156k – $308k |
| Staff | 11 | $245k | $220k – $275k |
| Principal | 33 | $245k | $220k – $275k |
| Architect | 4 | $270k | $150k – $340k |
Highest paying role
Chief Engineer - Navy Strategic Systems
$340k
Normalized to USD per year
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By role, level and city, against the market · 158 jobs with pay
Products
Biomedical Engineering
Medical devices, neural interfaces and biological sensing systems developed with clinical partners. It is a deliberate application of precision engineering to a field far from the laboratory's defence origins.
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Microsystems and Sensors
Precision sensors, microelectronics and photonics developed in its own fabrication facility. Owning the fabrication capability lets it build devices that no commercial supplier would produce in the required quantities.
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Space Systems
Navigation, autonomy and mission systems for space programmes including commercial lunar landers. The laboratory contributes guidance and control expertise rather than building complete spacecraft, which keeps it a partner rather than a competitor to its customers.
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Strategic Systems
Guidance work for United States strategic deterrent programmes, including submarine-launched systems. The role is long-standing and depends on institutional knowledge that would take decades for another organisation to rebuild.
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Guidance and Navigation
Inertial navigation and guidance systems for missiles, submarines and spacecraft. The laboratory's work in this field goes back to the Apollo programme, and it remains the technical foundation for most of what it does today.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
191
51 opened / 51 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
30 days
faster than 42% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~8 hours
10/15/2026
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.
Industrial Engineering
31% ▲
Hardware
22% ▼
Early Careers
7% ▲
QA
6% ▼
Backend
4%
Finance
4%
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+25 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Sketch to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Lowell
Oct 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Oct 2026
Added CAM350 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Teams to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added NIST 800-171 to stack
Sep 2026
Added KiCad to stack
Sep 2026
+7 jobs in a week
Sep 2026
New location: Odon
Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
10
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cambridge
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Cambridge
United States
HQ
VA - Reston Office
186 open roles 194 posted in 90 days 51% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $221k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Early Careers
555 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139
Reston
United States
Regional office
VA - Reston Office
16 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 13% remote 50-200 est. staff $221k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Security
Huntsville
United States
Regional office
AL - Huntsville - Draper Office
11 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 9% remote 50-200 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Early Careers
Saint Petersburg
United States
Plant / site
FL - St. Petersburg - Draper Rapid Prototyping Center
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $207k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering
11208 Blue Heron Boulevard North, St. Petersburg FL
Clearfield
United States
Regional office
UT - Clearfield
6 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff $234k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering
1366 South Legends Hill Drive, Clearfield UT
Lowell
United States
Regional office
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers, Industrial Engineering
Houston
United States
TX - Houston
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $188k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware
Draper
United States
Regional office
Cape Canaveral
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $197k Avg Salary
hires for Analytics, Industrial Engineering
Draper, P.O. Box 236, Cape Canaveral FL
Odon
United States
Engineering / R&D
IN - Odon - Crane
2 open roles 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $233k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering
Titusville
United States
Regional office
FL - Cape Canaveral Air Station (GTB) [02]
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $245k Avg Salary
hires for QA
6280 Riverfront Center Boulevard, Titusville FL
Maritime
United States
Regional office
Washington, D.C.
Maritime Plaza II, 1220 12th Street, SE, Washington D.C.
Texas
United States
Regional office
Texas
17629 El Camino, Houston TX
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$82k – $220k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Associate's Degree • Cambridge
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≈ $149k – $270k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Associate's Degree • Cambridge
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