Nexthop Systems
Servers & Data Center Hardware · Network Equipment
39open roles
3backers · Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz
23H-1B filings in 12 months
237 daysmedian time a role stays open
Overview
Meet the Nexthop team Nexthop AI is a cohesive team of professionals who are among the best in their fields with deep expertise in hardware and software development from silicon, systems and cloud. The team culture thrives on collaboration, creativity and having fun while building great products.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 39 open roles at Nexthop Systems.
- Open roles
- 39Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Visa sponsorship, United States
- 23 ▲ 35% · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 22, 2026
- Technologies in its job postings
- 55Named in its job postings
How Nexthop Systems hires
Truth index
B 77/100
Median time to fill
237 days
Ghost roles
30%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Nexthop Systems scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 40 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 30% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 237 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
Hiring now
40
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz
Momentum
16/100
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
May 27
First role in Ireland Software Engineer
Apr 1
First role in Vietnam Thermal Process Engineer
Mar 13
First role in Australia Hardware Engineer
Apr 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
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Jobs
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SQL
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Visa sponsorship
23 ▲ 35%
H-1B filings in 12 months
$203k
Median offered salary
5
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Software developers
9
Electronics engineers
7
Electrical engineers
3
In the register as Nexthop Systems Inc, Santa Clara, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
Hewlett Packard Enterprise 572 filings
NVIDIA 2,856 filings
Cisco Systems 1,384 filings
IBM 1,158 filings
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 22, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
47/100
Stable
Open positions
39
5 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
237 days
faster than 4% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
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.
Finance
29% ▲
Support
21% ▼
Backend
14% ▼
Industrial Engineering
14% ▼
QA
7% ▲
Hardware
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Finance (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Nov 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Oct 2026
Added Gmail to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Bellevue
Oct 2026
Added Bash to stack
Oct 2026
Added Pytest to stack
Sep 2026
Added MPLS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Jenkins to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitLab CI to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Nexthop Systems over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
55
Postings analysed
26
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python54%
SQL23%
C++19%
Verilog8%
Frameworks & libraries
AutoGen4%
CrewAI4%
LangChain4%
LangGraph4%
Databases
Amazon Redshift4%
Google BigQuery4%
Snowflake4%
Cloud & platforms
Linux8%
Anthropic4%
Kubernetes4%
OpenAI4%
AI & ML
BERT8%
LLM4%
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857 portfolio companies
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News
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Nexthop AI Accelerates Into Hypergrowth With Oversubscribed $500M Series B Funding, Catapulting the Company's Valuation to $4.2 Billion
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
8
Countries
6
Busiest office
Santa Clara
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Santa Clara
United States
Regional office
18 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 33% engineering
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, QA
Bengaluru
India
Plant / site
India
8 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 63% engineering
hires for Backend, Finance, AI/ML
5th Floor, TOWER-B, Kariyammana Agrahara, Bellandur, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560103, India
Bac Ninh
Vietnam
Plant / site
3 open roles
hires for Industrial Engineering
San Francisco
United States
Regional office
3 open roles 33% engineering
hires for Hardware, Support, Industrial Engineering
Dublin
Ireland
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for Backend, Support
Sydney
Australia
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Support
Burnaby
Canada
1 open roles 100% engineering
hires for Backend
Bellevue
United States
1 open roles
hires for Solutions
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