Salient Motion
Avionics & Flight Control · Motors, Drives & Motion Control
10open roles
$140kmedian advertised pay
$12Mlatest round · Pre-Seed · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
4backers · Harpoon Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures
Overview
Salient Motion designs, manufactures and supports modular motion and actuation systems for aerospace, defense and industrial systems. Its team hires mechanical, electrical and wire harness design engineers, test engineers and co-op students. The company is based in Hawthorne, California, United States.
How Salient Motion hires
Truth index
A 90/100
Median time to fill
74 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
20%
Reposted roles
0%
Salient Motion scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 20% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 74 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
$12M
1 round on record
Latest round
$12M
Pre-Seed · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
34
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +143% in a year
Hiring now
16
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Harpoon Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
25 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
30/100
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
Oct 29
First sales or marketing role Senior Manager, Business Development
Sep 28
Launched Salient Motion Launches Saginaw Precision to Manufacture Precision Ball Screws, a Critical Link in the Missile and Robotics Supply Chain · YahooFinance
Feb 24
Partnership Salient Motion and Aviointeriors Partner to Deliver Rapidly Certifiable, Software-Defined Actuation for Allegra Business Class Seating · businesswire.com
2025
Team of 34 was 14 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Sep 30, 2024
Raised a round Pre-Seed $12M
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | Sep 2024 | $12M | — | businesswire.com |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$140k
Typical range
$80k – $230k
Open positions
15
10
Jobs
Junior
30%
Middle
20%
Senior
40%
Principal
10%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 3 | $140k | $100k – $160k |
| Middle | 2 | $125k | $110k – $140k |
| Senior | 4 | $190k | $175k – $200k |
| Principal | 1 | $230k | $230k |
Highest paying role
Principal Mechanical Engineer
$230k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Salient Motion
By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$123k
Median offered salary
16
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Mechanical engineers
1
In the register as Salient Motion, Inc., Torrance, CA
Other sponsors in the same field
Moog Inc. 
Rockwell Automation 
Danfoss 
Garmin
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 16, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
16
7 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
75 days
faster than 16% 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.
Industrial Engineering
22% ▲
Robotics
17%
Operations
17% ▼
Hardware
11% ▼
Backend
6% ▲
Finance
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Statistical Process Control to stack
Oct 2026
Added AS9100 to stack
Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-461 to stack
Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-810 to stack
Oct 2026
Added DO-160 to stack
Oct 2026
Added DO-178C to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Hawthorne
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$12M
Latest round
Pre-Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | 2024 | $12M | Details |
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
28
Postings analysed
19
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
Embedded C11%
C11%
Node JS5%
Python5%
Frameworks & libraries
Electron5%
React.js5%
Databases
Firestore5%
Cloud & platforms
FreeRTOS11%
RTOS11%
Firebase5%
Figma5%
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Shared investors
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Hummingbird VenturesVia a fund
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News
Salient Motion establishes precision ball screw manufacturing segment
The startup has implemented its process with Saginaw Precision's expertise to reduce ball screw production time from years to about eight weeks, which are a critical component in missiles such as Raytheon's PAC-2.
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Salient Motion Launches Saginaw Precision to Manufacture Precision Ball Screws, a Critical Link in the Missile and Robotics Supply Chain
HAWTHORNE, Calif. & SAGINAW, Mich., September 28, 2026--Salient Motion today announced the launch of Saginaw Precision, a new division focused on precision ball screws and roller screws for aerospace, defense, robotics, and other high-performance actuatio
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Salient Motion and Aviointeriors Partner to Deliver Rapidly Certifiable, Software-Defined Actuation for Allegra Business Class Seating
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Salient Motion and Aviointeriors Partner to Deliver Rapidly Certifiable, Software-Defined Actuation for Allegra Business Class Seating
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Salient Motion Announces Collaborations to Transform Aircraft Systems Manufacturing
TORRANCE, Calif., January 15, 2026--Salient Motion, an aerospace and defense component supplier, has developed motion control systems for commercial aircraft that can achieve certification in months rather than years, marking a significant departure from
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Salient Motion to Showcase Commercial and Military Actuation Systems with Boeing Ventures at Dubai Airshow 2025
TORRANCE, Calif. & DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 11, 2025--(Dubai Airshow)-Salient Motion, an aerospace and defense component supplier, will showcase its modular actuation systems and motion control technologies at Dubai Airshow 2025, running Nov.
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Andreessen Horowitz Invests In Actuator Startup Salient Motion Aviation Week
Salient Motion aims to develop and certify actuation systems for highly regulated industries such as aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing.
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Salient Motion: Aerospace And Defense Component Supplier Raises $12 Million
Salient Motion, an aerospace and defense component supplier, announced it has closed $12 million in total funding, preseed and seed rounds, to transform the design and manufacturing of critical motion control components. This funding was led by Cantos Ven
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Hawthorne
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Hawthorne
United States
HQ
HQ1 - Hawthorne
16 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 31% engineering 50-200 est. staff $149k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Operations
Saginaw
United States
Regional office
Saginaw, Michigan
2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff