Focal Systems
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Retail & Commerce AI
Computer Vision
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How Focal Systems hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
21 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
63%
Reposted roles
0%
Focal Systems scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 63% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 21 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
Focal Systems fits shelf-facing cameras and computer vision to physical retail so store staff know in real time what is out of stock or misplaced. Its system turns those observations into task lists for the floor team rather than a report read later. Grocery and convenience chains use it to cut lost sales from empty shelves.
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Why AI Fails at Scale in Retail and What Actually Prevents It
In September 2025, Starbucks put an AI inventory-counting tool into more than 11,000 North American stores. The vendor had reported 99% accuracy and counting roughly eight times faster than doing it by hand. Nine months later, in May 2026, an internal mem
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Summerween is Real: Halloween is Arriving on Shelves Earlier Every Year
If it feels like Halloween is popping up in stores earlier and earlier each year, that's because it is. And now there's shelf-level data to prove it. "Summerween" has been a recurring trend for a few years thanks to Gen Z's love for the season. According
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The Hidden Cost of What Sits Above the Shelf: How AI Vision Is Turning Dead Stock Into Revenue
How retailers are unlocking tens of thousands of dollars in recoverable inventory, every month, per store, with overhead vision technology. Walk the backroom of almost any grocery store, and you'll find it: pallets stacked ceiling-high, cases wedged onto
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Retail Experience Sits at the Heart of Loss Prevention
I didn't come to retail technology from a spreadsheet or a boardroom. I came to it from the shop floor. I spent years in stores, so I never saw loss prevention as a slide in a deck. I've seen it as something you live through, shift after shift. I've had,
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Focal Systems Announces Top Stock, a Computer Vision Module That Eliminates the Retail Blind Spot Above the Shelf
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What the World Cup Did to the Beer Aisle
Match-day demand is real, it is measurable, and it looks different in every country. We read the ritual in the out-of-stock data. Every big match has a pre-game ritual, and for a lot of fans it happens in the drinks aisle a day or two before kickoff. We w
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Our Cameras Saw the Fourth of July Coming
Some holidays announce themselves quietly. The Fourth of July is not one of them. Nearly 240 million Americans celebrate it, spending an estimated $12.6 billion on food and drink. (NRF). Long before the first grill is lit, all of that demand shows up on t
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Focal Systems Wins In-Store Technology of the Year at the Retail Systems Awards 2026
Today, we're honored to share that Focal Systems has been named In-Store Technology of the Year at the Retail Systems Awards 2026, one of the most respected recognition programs in UK retail technology. The Retail Systems Awards celebrate the companies an
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Backroom Problems Hiding in Plain Sight
Focal Systems is helping retailers tackle one of 2026's biggest challenges: turning loss prevention from a backward-looking metric into real-time operational intelligence. With margin pressure rising from inflation, shifting consumer behavior, and a tight
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From Loss Prevention to Loss Intelligence: How Shelf Visibility Changes the Shrink Equation
Retail shrink has always been treated as a cost of doing business. A percentage point here, an acceptable loss there. But as shrink continues to climb and margins continue to tighten, the traditional playbook of guards, gates, and gut instinct is no longe
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Focal Systems over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
38
Postings analysed
68
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
Python10%
SQL7%
TypeScript1%
JavaScript1%
Frameworks & libraries
FastAPI3%
NumPy3%
Flask1%
Pandas1%
Databases
Snowflake6%
MySQL4%
Redis1%
Cloud & platforms
GCP6%
Kubernetes6%
Apache Kafka4%
Looker3%
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38 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$46k
Typical range
$46k – $183k
Open positions
41
9
Jobs
Senior
44.4%
Staff
44.4%
Architect
11.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 4 | $137k | $94k – $146k |
| Staff | 4 | $54k | $54k – $122k |
| Architect | 1 | $183k | $183k |
Highest paying role
Director of Analytics
$183k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Focal Systems
By role, level and city, against the market · 41 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
86/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
41
15 opened / 15 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
21 days
faster than 54% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
Field & Service
68% ▼
Management
25% ▲
Leadership
2% ▼
Product
2% ▼
Analytics
2%
Operations
2%
Actively hiring for Field & Service (+14 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Norwich
Oct 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Oct 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Oct 2026
Added dbt to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom
Oct 2026
New location: Coventry
Sep 2026
New location: Poland
Sep 2026
New location: Belfast
Sep 2026
New location: Manchester
Sep 2026
New location: Liverpool
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
15
Hiring now
14
Countries
2
Busiest office
London
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
Focal - San Francisco, CA
98 Battery Street Ste 402,, San Francisco, CA 94111
London
United Kingdom
Plant / site
Focal - UK
37 open roles 46 posted in 90 days 5% engineering 8% remote 50-200 est. staff $54k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Management, Data Science
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $48k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Management
Bristol
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $49k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Management
Sheffield
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Portsmouth
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Leeds
United Kingdom
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Cardiff
United Kingdom
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Manchester
United Kingdom
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Glasgow
United Kingdom
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Belfast
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Norwich
United Kingdom
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
Earlier presence
Coventry, United Kingdom
Jobs
$162k – $183k per year • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • London
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$120k – $140k per year • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • London
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$108k – $122k per year • Equity • Remote (Poland, CEST hours) • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Poland
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Computer Vision
DevOps
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Docker
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$102k – $118k per year • Equity • In office • Poland
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FastAPI
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MySQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
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DevOps
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$120k – $146k per year • Equity • Remote (Poland, CEST hours) • 6+ years exp • Poland
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Flask
FastAPI
Databases
MySQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Material UI
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Helm
Prometheus
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Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
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$117k – $133k per year • Equity • Remote (Poland) • 4+ years exp • Poland
Python
SQL
MySQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Pandas
NumPy
DevOps
GCP
Helm
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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$80k – $94k per year • Equity • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • London
Python
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
Computer Vision
NumPy
Statsmodels
Machine Learning
Analytics
A/B Testing
Looker
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