Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026
MP Materials is a US rare earth producer headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, that mines and refines rare earth materials and manufactures permanent magnets. It owns the Mountain Pass mine and processing facility in California, acquired in 2017 when the site was idle, makes magnets at its Independence facility in Fort Worth, Texas, and is building a second Texas magnet plant; its shares trade on the NYSE. Hiring is concentrated in Fort Worth and covers magnetics, process, controls and electrical engineers, laboratory analysts, prototyping technicians, EHS specialists and procurement and finance staff.
It is hiring: 93 open roles, 21 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 19% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Las Vegas, United States
- Founded
- 2017
- Employees
- 501-1000estimated range
- Open roles
- 93 in 4 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- mpmaterials.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 93 open roles at MP Materials. MP Materials is headquartered in Las Vegas, United States. It was founded in 2017. The median pay stated in its open roles is $125k, across 32 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
92/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
4%
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.
Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 33 of open roles.
21Posted in 30 days23% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 93
4Roles in AI4% of open roles
4Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
128 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States128On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
MP Materials100 days
Market, same roles37 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand73
Pay31
Your chance30
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 92 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
A
92 / 100MP Materials scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 93 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 4% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 100 days.
Ghost roles4%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering33▼
Field & Service21
Operations14
HR9▲
Analytics5▲
Finance5
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 75%High School Diploma 16%Master's Degree 4%Associate's Degree 3%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 1%
Experience asked: 5 years on average, in 73 postings. 68 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Professional development44%
Continuous learning33%
Flexible schedule22%
Equity11%
Veteran hiring program11%
Military spouse friendly11%
Contract type
Full-Time 70
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 19% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$125kMedianmarket estimate $105k
$94k – $150kTypical rangeUSD a year
$275kHighest paying roleVice President, Government Affairs
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $105k
Junior5$86k$82k – $115k
Middle7$125k$115k – $140k
Senior9$150k$125k – $170k
$0$50k$100k$150k$200k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Named in the work visa registers of United States.
1H-1B filings in 12 months
$153kMedian offered salary
75Open roles in United States
In the register as MP Materials Corp, Las Vegas, NV
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Nov 19, 2025
Footprint
Hiring in 4 cities in 1 country.
4Cities
1Countries
Fort WorthBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Ranked #5 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Technologies named in job postings at MP Materials over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
38Technologies in use
128Postings analysed
80/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Sep 302026
News · YahooFinance
MP Materials just clawed back from a brutal month-long slide, and the reason behind Wednesday
Sep 282026
News · 24/7 Wall St.
Rare earth stocks just shed a fifth of their value while the broad market barely budged, leaving MP Materials shareholders facing a decision that the numbers alone cannot resolve.
Sep 262026
News · YahooFinance
On September 18, 2026, Reuters reported that state-owned China Rare Earth Group is in talks to acquire Shenghe Resources, which holds a roughly 3% stake in US rare earths company…
Sep 172026
News · kalkineus
MP Materials (NYSE:MP) is in focus as metals and mining stocks react to higher rates, shifting sector demand, and a more selective American market session.
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
