Kickmaker
Embedded & Electronics Design · Engineering Services
36Open roles6 posted in 30 days
$123kMedian advertised pay$115k – $150k−4% vs market
69 daysTime to fillmedian of 22 closed rolesmarket: 38 days
C 67/100Truth index
Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026Kickmaker is a French engineering talent community supporting high-tech projects from prototype to mass manufacturing.
It is hiring: 36 open roles, 6 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Founded
- 2016
- Employees
- 51-200estimated range
- Open roles
- 36 in 6 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- kickmaker.fr
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 36 open roles at Kickmaker. Kickmaker is headquartered in Paris, France. It was founded in 2016. The median pay stated in its open roles is $120k, across 10 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: C
67/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
47%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
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
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Early Careers is the largest family, 24 of open roles.
6Posted in 30 days17% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 36
6Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
18 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand30
Pay49
Your chance27
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+33%
Sep 7This week
Open roles a week: 27 then, 36 now
Are the postings real?
C
67 / 100Kickmaker scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 36 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 47% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 69 days.
Ghost roles47%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Master's Degree 100%
Experience asked: 5.9 years on average, in 17 postings. 4 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Full-Time 19Internship 7
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
What its postings pay, by level.
$123kMedianmarket estimate $124k
$115k – $150kTypical rangeUSD a year
$200kHighest paying roleProject Manager
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $124k
$0$38k$75k$113k$150k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 6 cities in 2 countries.
6Cities
2Countries
ParisBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris France | Headquarters | 14 | Industrial Engineering, Management, Operations | 7% |
| Nantes France | Regional office | 8 | Industrial Engineering, Operations, Backend | 13% |
| Seattle United States | Regional office | 5 | Hardware, Management, Industrial Engineering | 40% |
| Lyon France | Plant / site | 4 | Industrial Engineering, Operations | 0% |
| Austin United States | Corporate office | 3 | Management, Industrial Engineering | 0% |
| San Francisco United States | Not classified | 2 | Management, Sales | 0% |
| Shenzhen China | Regional office | 0 |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #6 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALTEN | Boulogne-Billancourt, France | 816 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | Scalian | Toulouse, France | 442 | 1001-5000 | |
| 3 | RFA Engineering | Eden Prairie, United States | 116 | 201-500 | |
| 4 | Disher | Zeeland, United States | 84 | 51-200 | |
| 5 | Etteplan | Espoo, Finland | 83 | 1001-5000 | |
| 6 | Kickmaker | Paris, France | 36 | 51-200 | |
| 7 | Sioux Technologies | Eindhoven, Netherlands | 20 | ||
| 8 | N.O.C Engineering | Offenbach, Germany | 10 |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Kickmaker over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
52Technologies in use
25Postings analysed
84/100Stack modernityAI adopter
LanguagesPython 32%C++ 28%C# 12%MATLAB 8%
Frameworks & librariesQt 12%ROS 8%ROS2 8%React.js 4%
Cloud & platformsLinux 12%Power BI 8%.NET 4%Azure 4%
AI & MLChatGPT 4%LLM 4%
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Full Kickmaker tech stack52 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Sep 28
First sales or marketing role Business Development Intern
Nov 12, 2025
First role in United States Mechanical Engineer
2016
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
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