ALSO
Bicycles & Cycling · Smart Mobility
21open roles
$235kmedian advertised pay
$200Mlatest round · Venture round · Jul 2025 · 16 mo ago
1backers · Eclipse
Overview
ALSO is an electric micromobility company based in Palo Alto, California, designing vertically integrated small electric vehicles such as the modular TM-B electric bike and related cargo and utility configurations. Originally conceived inside the electric vehicle maker Rivian, it develops its own hardware, controls and software and has teams in Seattle, Los Angeles, Taiwan and Belgium for supply chain, operations and European sales. It hires controls, actuator and validation engineers, supply managers, commercial program managers, fleet service technicians and community and operations staff.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 21 open roles at ALSO. ALSO is headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $200M, announced in 2025. The median pay stated in its open roles is $230k, across 20 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 21Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Total raised
- $200MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Venture - Series Unknown · $200M · Jul 8, 2025Press report · techcrunch.com
- Median advertised pay
- $230kPay stated in 20 open postings
- Visa sponsorship, United States
- 32 ▲ 146% · H-1B filings in 12 monthsUS Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 26, 2026
- Technologies in its job postings
- 96Named in its job postings
How ALSO hires
Truth index
A 87/100
Median time to fill
61 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
33%
Reposted roles
0%
ALSO scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 21 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 33% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 61 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
Total raised
$200M
1 round on record
Latest round
$200M
Venture round · Jul 2025 · 16 mo ago
Hiring now
21
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Eclipse
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
23/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Sep 30
First role in Belgium Head of Operations, Europe
Sep 30
First executive search Head of Operations, Europe
Sep 2
First sales or marketing role Customer Support Representative
Aug 11
First role in Taiwan Global Logistics Specialist
Aug 6
Released an app ALSO. · App Store
Oct 22, 2025
Launched ALSO Unveils New Suite of Electric Micromobility Vehicles to Reimagine Local Transportation · PRNewswire
Jul 8, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $200M · TechCrunch
Mar 2025
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.8 ★
10 ratings
Hacker News stories
4
best: 6 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2025 | $200M | — | TechCrunch |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$235k
Typical range
$40k – $280k
Open positions
20
16
Jobs
Middle
6.3%
Senior
25%
Staff
68.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $40k | $40k |
| Senior | 4 | $235k | $120k – $250k |
| Staff | 11 | $240k | $165k – $280k |
Highest paying role
Electrical Engineer, Vehicle Architecture (Multiple Levels)
$280k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at ALSO
By role, level and city, against the market · 20 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
32 ▲ 146%
H-1B filings in 12 months
$223k
Median offered salary
21
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Electrical engineers
10
Software developers
7
Software quality assurance analysts and testers
6
In the register as Also, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
Zoox 
Waymo 
Nuro 
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 26, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
31/100
Slowing
Open positions
21
2 opened / 18 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
61 days
faster than 20% 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.
Sales
20% ▼
Industrial Engineering
20% ▲
Hardware
12% ▼
Management
8%
Field & Service
8%
Backend
4% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added SolidWorks to stack
Nov 2026
Financials
Total raised
$200M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $200M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at ALSO over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
96
Postings analysed
43
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python60%
MATLAB40%
C++30%
Kotlin9%
Frameworks & libraries
Pytest7%
React.js5%
Robot Framework5%
Appium2%
Databases
Redis7%
DynamoDB5%
Snowflake2%
Cloud & platforms
RTOS19%
AWS16%
Linux12%
API Gateway9%
AI & ML
Claude2%
LLM2%
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News
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Palo Alto
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Palo Alto
United States
HQ
20 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 40% engineering $228k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, DevOps
Miami
United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $40k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Earlier presence
Seattle, United States
Los Angeles, United States
Taichung, Taiwan
Miaoli, Taiwan
Deinze, Belgium
Denver, United States
Austin, United States
How to cite this page
Alion, "ALSO: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/ridealso
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