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How Physik Instrumente hires

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

Physik Instrumente 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 34 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

Overview

Physik Instrumente builds nanopositioning stages, piezo actuators and hexapod robots, whose parallel kinematic hexapods align optics and semiconductor components with nanometre precision. The company serves photonics, semiconductor and life science equipment makers and hires assemblers, mechatronics technicians, apprentices and field sales engineers. The company is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Physik Instrumente over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python
C++
Developer tools
SolidWorks
Git
Jenkins
Microsoft Excel
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$70k
Typical range
$52k – $170k
Open positions
6
5 Jobs
Intern 20%
Junior 60%
Senior 20%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $52k $52k
Junior 3 $70k $70k – $95k
Senior 1 $170k $170k
Highest paying role Senior Mechanical Engineer $170k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Physik Instrumente By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
79/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
32
12 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
34 days
faster than 37% 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
38%
Field & Service
21% ▲
Early Careers
21% ▼
HR
6% ▲
Management
6% ▼
Support
3% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Scrum to stack Oct 2026
Added Jira to stack Oct 2026
Added Jenkins to stack Oct 2026
Added Agile to stack Oct 2026
New location: Lederhose Oct 2026
+6 jobs in a week Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
Karlsruhe
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Karlsruhe Germany
HQ
Contact
11 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Early Careers, Industrial Engineering, Support
76228 Karlsruhe
seen since Mar 2026 company site, job postings
Lederhose Germany
Plant / site
12 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Early Careers, Field & Service
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Shrewsbury United States
Plant / site
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $85k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Rosenheim Germany
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $47k – $93k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • High School Diploma • Karlsruhe
Jenkins
Git
Management
Jira
Scrum
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≈ $30k – $68k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Karlsruhe
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$110k – $170k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Shrewsbury
SolidWorks
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In office • Full-Time • High School Diploma • Karlsruhe
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In office • Full-Time • High School Diploma • Lederhose
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In office • Full-Time • Karlsruhe
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