MetOx International

Electrical Equipment & Cables · Advanced Materials
$84Mtotal raised · 4 rounds on record
3open roles
$1Mlatest round · Convertible Note · Dec 2024 · 22 mo ago
Growinghiring pace, 63 of 100

Overview

MetOx International is an American advanced materials company manufacturing high-temperature superconducting wire for energy and power applications. It runs research and production in Houston and hires production technicians, process engineers, data scientists and R&D leaders, including through its Futures Invitational for graduate students. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.

How MetOx International hires

Truth index
B 70/100
Median time to fill
31 days
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

MetOx International scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 31 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

Total raised
$84M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$1M
Convertible Note · Dec 2024 · 22 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
12
+2 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
22 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
7/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 22 Board appointment MetOx International Appoints Semiconductor Industry Veteran Richard Gottscho to Board of Directors · marketwatch.com Dec 19, 2024 New executive James Carr, Executive Officer · SEC Form D Dec 17, 2024 Raised a round Convertible Note $1M · SEC Form D Sep 19, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $40M · SEC Form D Dec 13, 2023 New executive Arthur Vos IV, Executive Officer, Director · SEC Form D Oct 2, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $43M · SEC Form D 2023 Founded Jun 25, 2019 Took on debt financing $4.1M · SEC Form D
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 31%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Convertible Note Dec 2024 $1M — SEC Form D
Venture round Sep 2024 $40M — SEC Form D
Venture round Oct 2023 $43M — SEC Form D
Debt Financing Jun 2019 $4.1M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity MetOx Technologies, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
W. James JewittExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
John KermathExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Tim GajdorusExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Arthur Vos IVExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Arthur VosExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
James CarrExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Jobs

In office · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Houston
EtherCAT
Chips/EDA
CVD
IoT
MQTT
OPC UA
MedTech
CAPA
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≈ $98k – $214k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · Houston
CVD
PVD
ALD
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≈ $159k – $298k per year (Estimated) · In office · PhD · Houston
Machine Learning
Chips/EDA
CVD
Statistical Process Control
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Visa sponsorship

#4,273 of 8,998 sponsors
2
H-1B filings in 12 months
1
Green card filings
$128k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Electrical engineers
1
Materials engineers
1
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as MetOx International, Inc., Houston, TX (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 23, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
12
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
44 days
faster than 31% 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.
Industrial Engineering
40% ▲
Field & Service
30% ▼
Data Science
10% ▲
Operations
10% ▼
Early Careers
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added EtherCAT to stack Nov 2026
Added Minitab to stack Oct 2026
Added JMP to stack Oct 2026
Added Design of Experiments to stack Oct 2026
Added ALD to stack Oct 2026
Added Statistical Process Control to stack Oct 2026
Added PVD to stack Oct 2026
Added CVD to stack Oct 2026
Added CAPA to stack Oct 2026
Added LLM to stack Oct 2026
Added Cursor to stack Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$88.1M
Latest round
Convertible Note
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Convertible Note 2024 $1M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $40M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $43M Details
Debt Financing 2019 $4.1M Details

People

W. James Jewitt
Executive Officer
John Kermath
Executive Officer, Director
Tim Gajdorus
Executive Officer
Arthur Vos IV
Executive Officer, Director
Arthur Vos
Executive Officer, Director
James Carr
Executive Officer
Riaz Siddiqi
Director
Brian Caress
Director
Robert Chiste
Director
Paul Grashei
Director
Allan MacKenzie
Director
Stephen MacKenzie
Director
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at MetOx International over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
25
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
70/100AI adopter
Languages
Python20%
SQL10%
Frameworks & libraries
NumPy10%
Pandas10%
Databases
MySQL10%
PostgreSQL10%
InfluxDB10%
AI & ML
LLM10%
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Full MetOx International tech stack 25 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

News

Press release PRNewswire 7 months ago
MetOx International Appoints Semiconductor Industry Veteran Richard Gottscho to Board of Directors
/PRNewswire/ -- MetOx International - MetOx, a leading U.S. manufacturer of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire, today announced the appointment of Dr....
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Podcast nytimes.com 1 year ago
Ezra Klein's interview with Thomas Friedman
In case you're wondering, I've been monitoring traffic on this site, and it seems that there is more interested on cars than my beliefs. Just as well. In any event, I am in the process of spinning off my car blogging onto a different site. So, stay tuned.
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Press release PRNewswire 2 years ago
MetOx Secures Additional Strategic Funding, Expanding Domestic HTS Manufacturing Capacity
/PRNewswire/ -- MetOx International, Inc. (MetOx), a U.S. leader in High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) technology, has announced the closing of its Series...
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Houston
Houston United States
HQ
Houston (11331 Tanner Rd)
12 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 8% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Leadership
seen since Jun 2026 careers board, job postings