Salient Motion
salientmotion.com
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Avionics & Flight Control
Motors, Drives & Motion Control
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Funding and backers
Team
34
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +143% in a year
Hiring now
15
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Harpoon Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures
Momentum
8/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Harpoon Ventures 
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How Salient Motion hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Salient Motion scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 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. 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
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Salient Motion over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
58/100
Languages
Embedded C
C
Cloud & platforms
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Full Salient Motion tech stack
8 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$145k
Typical range
$80k – $230k
Open positions
14
9
Jobs
Junior
22.2%
Middle
22.2%
Senior
44.4%
Principal
11.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $145k | $140k – $150k |
| Middle | 2 | $125k | $110k – $140k |
| Senior | 4 | $185k | $175k – $200k |
| Principal | 1 | $230k | $230k |
Highest paying role
Principal Mechanical Engineer
$230k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
49/100
Stable
Open positions
15
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
97 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 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.
Hardware
22% ▼
Robotics
22% ▼
HR
22% ▼
Operations
22% ▲
Finance
11% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Saginaw
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Torrance
United States
HQ
Saginaw
United States
Engineering / R&D
Saginaw, Michigan
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Robotics
Hawthorne
United States
Regional office
HQ1 - Hawthorne
Jobs
$120k – $140k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree
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$160k – $190k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
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≈ $70k – $133k per year (Estimated) • In office • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Saginaw
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$130k – $150k per year • In office • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
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$120k – $140k per year • In office • 2+ years exp
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Embedded C
DevOps
RTOS
IoT
FreeRTOS
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