Reflect Orbital
reflectorbital.com
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Solar Energy
Space Services
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$28.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$28.7M
Venture round · Apr 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
20
+4 posted in 30 days
Grants
$1.2M
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
3
Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
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
Oct 1
First sales or marketing role Marketing Director
May 19, 2025
Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
13
best: 37 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | May 2025 | $1.2M | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Apr 2025 | $28.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Reflect Orbital Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Ben NowackExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Tristan SemmelhackExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Lux Capital 
Sequoia Capital 
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How Reflect Orbital hires
Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
16 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%
Reflect Orbital scores A 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, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 16 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
Reflect Orbital is a space company building reflectors in orbit to shine sunlight on solar panels at night, through a satellite constellation that delivers sunlight on demand. It hires marketing and government partnerships directors, avionics and composites engineers and mission operations and ground software interns. The company is headquartered in Hawthorne, California, United States.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Reflect Orbital over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python75%
C++69%
Rust25%
SQL6%
Cloud & platforms
Linux38%
AWS25%
Kubernetes25%
Power BI6%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$185k
Typical range
$62k – $220k
Open positions
20
20
Jobs
Intern
25%
Junior
5%
Middle
25%
Senior
15%
Principal
15%
Architect
15%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 5 | $62k | $62k |
| Junior | 1 | $170k | $170k |
| Middle | 5 | $190k | $180k – $200k |
| Senior | 3 | $190k | $185k – $220k |
| Principal | 3 | $190k | $185k – $220k |
| Architect | 3 | $190k | $140k – $200k |
Highest paying role
Senior GNC Engineer
$220k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Reflect Orbital
By role, level and city, against the market · 20 jobs with pay
People
Ben Nowack
Executive Officer, Director
Tristan Semmelhack
Executive Officer, Director
Shaun Maguire
Director
Josh Wolfe
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
20
4 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
12 days
faster than 65% 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
45% ▼
Backend
18% ▼
Hardware
9% ▲
Early Careers
9% ▲
HR
5% ▼
Legal
5% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Washington
Oct 2026
Added Webflow to stack
Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added KiCad to stack
Sep 2026
Added Cadence Allegro to stack
Sep 2026
Added Altium Designer to stack
Sep 2026
Added Anomaly Detection to stack
Sep 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack
Aug 2026
Added SQL to stack
Aug 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Hawthorne
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Hawthorne
United States
HQ
20 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 30% engineering 50-200 est. staff $151k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Hardware
12600 Daphne Avenue Hawthorne, CA 90250
Washington
United States
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
12600 Daphne Avenue Hawthorne, CA 90250
Jobs
$54k – $62k per year • In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
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$54k – $62k per year • In office • Internship • Hawthorne
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C++
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$120k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
Python
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DevOps
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$120k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
Python
Rust
C++
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
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$120k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
Python
C++
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
Linux
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