Lunar Energy

Energy Storage · Energy & Utilities
19open roles
$185kmedian advertised pay
2backers · DCVC, Piva Capital
10H-1B filings in 12 months

Overview

Lunar was founded to power homes around the world with endless clean energy. Explore the Lunar System, a solar and battery solution brilliantly designed to be powerful, simple and beautiful. So now you can use energy like it’s endless, because it is.

How Lunar Energy hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
37 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Lunar Energy scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 37 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

Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
21
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
DCVC, Piva Capital
Momentum
18/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.46%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 10 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$185k
Typical range
$140k – $260k
Open positions
14
14 Jobs
Middle 7.1%
Senior 50%
Staff 35.7%
Principal 7.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $140k $140k
Senior 7 $180k $160k – $195k
Staff 5 $210k $175k – $230k
Principal 1 $260k $260k
Highest paying role Principal Firmware Engineer $260k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Lunar Energy By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay

Visa sponsorship

#1,637 of 8,998 sponsors
10 ▼ 9%
H-1B filings in 12 months
8
Green card filings
$155k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Mechanical engineers
2
Electronics engineers
2
Other engineers
1
5 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Lunar Energy, Inc., Mountain View, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing May 20, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
21
6 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 38% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/11/2026
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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.
Hardware
38% ▼
Industrial Engineering
19% ▲
Field & Service
9% ▼
Administrative
6%
Operations
6% ▲
Energy
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Hardware (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Claude to stack Oct 2026
Added Verification & Validation to stack Oct 2026
Added Battery Management Systems to stack Oct 2026
Added FMEA to stack Oct 2026
Added Webflow to stack Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Oct 2026
Added Instagram to stack Oct 2026
Added HubSpot to stack Oct 2026
New location: San Francisco Oct 2026
New location: United Kingdom Oct 2026
Added Tableau to stack Sep 2026
Added Power BI to stack Sep 2026

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Lunar Energy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
28
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python25%
SQL7%
PowerShell4%
Rust4%
Frameworks & libraries
ESP-IDF4%
Databases
PostgreSQL4%
Vertica4%
Cloud & platforms
RTOS14%
Linux4%
VMWare4%
Webflow4%
AI & ML
Claude4%
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Full Lunar Energy tech stack 30 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors2
Piva CapitalVia a fund
19 portfolio companies: VEIR, Xage, Worlds and 16 more
DCVCVia a fund
227 portfolio companies: Rainmaker, Nobell Foods, NVision Quantum and 224 more

News

News pv magazine USA 12 months ago
How the value proposition of residential solar is evolving as the federal solar tax credit comes to a close
As residential solar installers face the end of the Section 25D solar tax credit, they must grapple with how to reduce costs, work with new financing models, and build systems that provide new ways to capture long-term value through grid interactivity.
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News CleanTechnica 4 years ago
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News canarymedia 4 years ago
Lunar Energy enters solar+battery field with $300M investment
Sunrun, SK Group and others back the startup's plan to break into a crowded market with integrated home battery systems and broader energy controls.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Mountain View
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Mountain View United States
HQ
21 open roles 28 posted in 90 days 62% engineering 50-200 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Administrative
seen since Jan 2026
San Francisco United States
21 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 62% engineering 50-200 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Administrative
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Regional office
UK
1 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 100% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for Hardware
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings