Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026
Kardigan is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in South San Francisco that develops targeted treatments for cardiovascular disease, pursuing several late-stage candidates in parallel. Its co-founders Tassos Gianakakos, Jay Edelberg and Bob McDowell previously led MyoKardia, which developed the cardiac myosin inhibitor mavacamten and was acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb in 2020; its pipeline includes danicamtiv and tonlamarsen, and much of its team sits in Princeton, New Jersey. It hires clinical development leaders, medical science liaisons, regulatory, biostatistics and pharmacology specialists, scientists, and finance and planning staff.
It is hiring: 27 open roles, 8 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 28% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- South San Francisco, United States
- Employees
- 201-500estimated range
- Listing
- NASDAQ: KARD
- Open roles
- 27 in 5 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- kardigan.bio
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 27 open roles at Kardigan. Kardigan is headquartered in South San Francisco, United States. The median pay stated in its open roles is $253k, across 24 postings that state pay.
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
95/100
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
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Biotech is the largest family, 59 of open roles.
8Posted in 30 days30% of open roles are fresh
7%Remote roles2 of 27
2Roles in AI7% of open roles
5Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
57 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States57On site
Remote, from elsewhere2Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 2.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Kardigan63 days
Market, same roles28 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand54
Pay39
Your chance57
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 21This week
Open roles a week: 30 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
A
95 / 100Kardigan scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 63 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Biotech59▼
Leadership7▲
Finance7
Legal7▲
Early Careers7
Backend3▼
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 59%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 33%Master's Degree 7%
Experience asked: 9.2 years on average, in 27 postings. 27 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Equity311%
Continuous learning14%
Growth opportunities14%
Contract type
Contract 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: 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
Pays 28% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$257kMedianmarket estimate $198k
$210k – $318kTypical rangeUSD a year
$416kHighest paying roleVice President, Clinical Development
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $198k
Senior6$160k$159k – $185k
Head+17$305k$253k – $345k
$0$100k$200k$300k$400k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Named in the work visa registers of United States.
2 ▲ 100%H-1B filings in 12 months
$153kMedian offered salary
27Open roles in United States
In the register as Kardigan, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 20, 2026
Footprint
Hiring in 5 cities in 1 country.
5Cities
1Countries
PrincetonBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Technologies named in job postings at Kardigan over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
49Technologies in use
24Postings analysed
77/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
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Kardigan announced results from KARDINAL, a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the effects of tonlamarsen in patients with uncontrolled hypertension.
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
