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Funding and backers

Total raised
$260M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$160M
Venture round · Apr 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
157
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Jan 2026 · +33% in a year
Hiring now
57
+10 posted in 30 days
Grants
$2.2M
3 grants · CORDIS
Backers
3
Coatue, Eclipse
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
42/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
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
Apr 21 Raised a round Venture round $160M 2026 Team of 157 was 118 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Aug 28, 2024 Won a grant $1.8M · CORDIS Apr 20, 2022 Won a grant $300k · CORDIS Oct 14, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $100M Apr 14, 2021 Won a grant $49k · CORDIS 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2026 $160M — businesswire.com
Grant Aug 2024 $1.8M — CORDIS
Grant Apr 2022 $300k — CORDIS
Venture round Oct 2021 $100M — businesswire.com
Grant Apr 2021 $49k — CORDIS
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How Reliable Robotics hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
253 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Reliable Robotics scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 57 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 253 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

Visa sponsorship

0
H-1B filings in 12 months
1
Green card filings
$58k
Median offered salary
In the register as Reliable Inc. t/a Short Stop, Cambridge, MD (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Aug 4, 2025 · Visa details by country

Overview

Reliable Robotics is an aviation technology company based in Mountain View, California, that develops automation systems allowing existing aircraft to be flown under remote supervision, including automated taxi, takeoff, landing and rollout. Founded in 2017 by engineers with backgrounds in aerospace, robotics and self-driving cars, it integrates its own C and C++ flight software and avionics hardware into aircraft and runs ongoing flight test programmes with its pilots and operations team. It hires flight software, guidance, navigation and control, systems safety, electrical and mechanical engineers, together with Part 135 line pilots, A&P mechanics and avionics maintenance technicians.

Connections

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Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors3
EclipseVia a fund
53 portfolio companies: Watchmaker Genomics, Getvinci, Voxel AI and 50 more
CoatueVia a fund
344 portfolio companies: Kalshi, Zuoyebang, Instinct and 341 more
634 portfolio companies

News

News blog.master.dev 2 months ago
Building a Reliable PostgreSQL Queue: Concurrency, Crashes, Retries, and Scale
We get into building a background task processor using PostgreSQL. It seems easy at first, but there are lots of pitfalls as a system like this scales.
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News Codemanship's Blog 3 months ago
The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy
It's a classic mistake. We develop a technology in N years for X dollars that's 90% reliable, and extrapolate that traversing that final 10% will only take another 0.1N years and 0.1X d…
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News ClickHouse 3 months ago
Ensuring reliable OpenTelemetry ingestion at scale
How ClickHouse Cloud collects 50m events per second through OpenTelemetry
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News Scott Spence 3 months ago
Agentic engineering: a practical guide to reliable coding agents
Agentic engineering is the practice of putting coding agents inside an engineering system that makes context, scope, validation, evidence and human review...
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News The Strategist 3 months ago
How to make military decision-support software reliable when comms go down
Armed forces need greater robustness from the systems they are increasingly using to support combat decision-making. These software systems must keep satisfactorily advising officers on decisions even when communications links go down, as they must ...
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News Gert Labs 3 months ago
Creating Reliable AI for an Adversarial World
The thief has more account data than the average real customer, but is missing at least one piece of information that matters.
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News euronews 3 months ago
TikTok finfluencers: How reliable is their financial advice?
Young people are increasingly turning to social media for financial information and advice, amid a sea of dubious tips. What do experts say are the warning signs to watch out for?
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News mit 3 months ago
Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices
MIT researchers developed a scalable fabrication platform for damage-free integration of molecular materials into nanoscale functional electronic devices, which could enable applications in emerging computing, sensing, and quantum technologies.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Reliable Robotics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
57
Postings analysed
48
Stack modernity
66/100
Languages
C++56%
Python52%
MATLAB13%
Rust8%
Frameworks & libraries
Django2%
Matplotlib2%
React.js2%
Cloud & platforms
AWS10%
Linux8%
GitHub4%
Windows4%
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Full Reliable Robotics tech stack 57 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$245k
Typical range
$84k – $300k
Open positions
57
53 Jobs
Junior 13.2%
Middle 7.5%
Senior 73.6%
Staff 5.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 7 $200k $157k – $215k
Middle 4 $215k $138k – $245k
Senior 39 $260k $84k – $300k
Staff 3 $270k $260k – $300k
Highest paying role Sr. Fullstack Software Engineer $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Reliable Robotics By role, level and city, against the market · 57 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
36/100
Slowing
Open positions
57
6 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
223 days
faster than 5% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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.
Hardware
57% ▼
Backend
13% ▲
Industrial Engineering
13% ▲
Aerospace
9%
HR
4% ▲
Field & Service
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Hardware (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added SystemVerilog to stack Oct 2026
Added Design of Experiments to stack Oct 2026
Added IEC 62304 to stack Oct 2026
Added Radar Signal Processing to stack Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-461 to stack Oct 2026
Added FMEA to stack Oct 2026
Added AS9100 to stack Oct 2026
Added DO-178C to stack Oct 2026
Added DO-254 to stack Oct 2026
Added DO-160 to stack Oct 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
1
Busiest office
Mountain View
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Mountain View United States
HQ
46 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 4% remote $238k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Backend
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Seattle United States
Engineering / R&D
22 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 73% engineering 14% remote $254k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Robotics
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
San Diego United States
Engineering / R&D
15 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 13% remote $259k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Hardware
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Albuquerque United States
2 open roles $92k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service
seen since Aug 2025 job postings

Jobs

$86k – $157k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Mountain View
Python
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$190k – $300k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seattle · San Diego · Mountain View
Python
SQL
MATLAB
Apply
$215k – $300k per year · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Mountain View
Python
C++
DO-178C
Apply
$145k – $165k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seattle
VHDL
MATLAB
DO-254
Apply
$188k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Mountain View · Seattle
Python
MATLAB
Altium Designer
SpaceTech
DO-254
Apply
$215k – $300k per year · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Mountain View
Verilog
SystemVerilog
VHDL
DO-254
Apply
$190k – $270k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · PhD · Mountain View
C++
DO-178C
MedTech
IEC 62304
Apply
$210k – $270k per year · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seattle
Verilog
VHDL
DO-254
Defense
Radar Signal Processing
Apply
$210k – $270k per year · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Mountain View
Python
C++
DO-178C
Apply
$160k – $210k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Seattle · San Diego · Mountain View
C++
DO-178C
Apply
$188k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Mountain View · Seattle
Python
C++
Altium Designer
SpaceTech
DO-160
Defense
MIL-STD-461
Apply
$160k – $215k per year · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Mountain View
Python
C++
DO-178C
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$262.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $160M Details
Grant 2024 $1.8M Details
Grant 2022 $300k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $100M Details
Grant 2021 $49k Details