General Atomics
Defense Manufacturing · Military Drones
Truth index ASponsors visasDomain protected (DMARC)
645Open roles281 posted in 30 days+57 this week
$20kMedian advertised pay$20k – $20k
34 daysTime to fillmedian of 227 closed rolesmarket: 38 days
A 99/100Truth index
Lately:+57 roles posted this weekPoway office: 0 → 310 roles in a month4 news stories in 90 daysFollow changes →
Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026General Atomics is a privately held American defense and energy technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 1955 as a division of General Dynamics. Its affiliate General Atomics Aeronautical Systems builds the Predator, Reaper and Gray Eagle remotely piloted aircraft, while its Electromagnetic Systems group makes aircraft launch and recovery systems for the US Navy. It also operates the DIII-D national fusion facility, works on nuclear fuels and reactors, and hires engineers, sensor operators, logistics and finance staff, mostly in Poway and San Diego.
It is hiring: 645 open roles, 281 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- San Diego, United States
- Founded
- 1955
- Employees
- 5000+estimated range
- Open roles
- 645 in 41 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q1501547
- Website
- ga.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 645 open roles at General Atomics. General Atomics is headquartered in San Diego, United States. It was founded in 1955.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
99/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securityga.com · Nov 14, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail goes to spam
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders fail (-all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
The certificate expires within two weeks
Weak
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Not enforced
Weak
Security contact (security.txt)
No security.txt
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 30 of open roles.
281Posted in 30 days44% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 645
31Roles in AI5% of open roles
41Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
882 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand86
Pay4
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Are the postings real?
A
99 / 100General Atomics scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 23 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 4% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 33 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale0%
Reposted4%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Degree asked
Doctoral Degree (PhD) 67%Master's Degree 33%
3 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Internship 26Contract 13Full-Time 1Part-Time 1
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pay
What its postings pay, by level.
$20kMedian
$20k – $20kTypical rangeUSD a year
$20kHighest paying roleConstruction Manager
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Visa
Full chapter →Named in the work visa registers of United States.
United StatesUS 1
#5,755 of 8,998 sponsors
1H-1B filings in 12 months
$103kMedian offered salary
641Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits In the register as General Atomics, San Diego, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
See 641 open roles Alert me
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jul 3, 2025
Footprint
Hiring in 41 cities in 2 countries.
41Cities
2Countries
PowayBusiest site
PowayFastest growing+310 in a month
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego United States | Headquarters | 125 | Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Field & Service | 18% |
| Poway United States | Plant / site | 324 | Industrial Engineering, Management, Hardware | 24% |
| Adelanto United States | Plant / site | 28 | Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Aerospace | 0% |
| Acton United States | Plant / site | 27 | Industrial Engineering, Hardware, QA | 37% |
| Herndon United States | Regional office | 20 | Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Leadership | 45% |
| Tupelo United States | Plant / site | 18 | Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Management | 0% |
| Palmdale United States | Plant / site | 17 | Aerospace, Field & Service, Education | 0% |
| Huntsville United States | Regional office | 13 | Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Legal | 31% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #3 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lockheed Martin | Bethesda, United States | 4,201 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, United States | 2,243 | 5000+ | |
| 3 | General Atomics | San Diego, United States | 645 | 5000+ | |
| 4 | Shield AI | San Diego, United States | 624 | 1001-5000 | |
| 5 | GE Aerospace | Evendale, United States | 526 | 5000+ | |
| 6 | Textron | Providence, United States | 431 | 5000+ | |
| 7 | AeroVironment | Arlington, United States | 335 | 1001-5000 | |
| 8 | Elbit Systems | Haifa, Israel | 320 | 5000+ |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Financials
2 public grants on record, $2.5M in total.
$2.5MPublic grants2 public grants
Sources: funding announcements, grant and company registers
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at General Atomics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
121Technologies in use
258Postings analysed
69/100Stack modernityAI adopter
Frameworks & librariesROS2 <1%Scikit-learn <1%Spring Boot <1%TensorFlow <1%
DatabasesMS SQL <1%
Cloud & platformsAWS 5%Linux 4%Honeycomb 3%Power BI 3%
AI & MLLLM <1%
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Full General Atomics tech stack121 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Jun 23, 2023
Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS
Jun 23, 2023
Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Sep 212026
News · FinanzNachrichten.de
Aircraft Delivery Continues Milestones for CCA Program SAN DIEGO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / September 21, 2026 / General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) congratulates th…
Sep 162026
News · FinanzNachrichten.de
Short Takeoff and Landing Aircraft Validates Austere Field Capabilities SAN DIEGO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / September 16, 2026 / General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) and H…
Sep 152026
News · YahooFinance
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., one of the world's largest drone producers, is growing near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, with plans for new offices and 50 new jobs…
Sep 112026
News · SOFX
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) released the first renderings of Wildfire on September 10, a lower-cost armed drone the company is pitching to replace the MQ-9A Rea…
May 27, 20242024
News · Times of San Diego
The facility has been offline since last July in order to install new diagnostic instruments, further capabilities for heating plasmas and driving the current that supports thefu…
May 22, 20242024
News · Nuclear Engineering International
The DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics in San Diego is starting up after undergoing eight months of upgrades…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once