Samara
Satellite Manufacturing
7open roles
$160kmedian advertised pay
2backers · Techstars, Illinois Ventures
$1.7Mgrants · 3 grants · CORDIS
Overview
Satellites, evolved.. We've replaced the weakest link in satellite design, so you can scale bigger, fly faster, and aim sharper.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 7 open roles at Samara. Samara is headquartered in San Francisco, United States. The median pay stated in its open roles is $160k, across 7 postings that state pay.
- Open roles
- 7Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 10+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Median advertised pay
- $160kPay stated in 7 open postings
- Technologies in its job postings
- 16Named in its job postings
How Samara hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Samara 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
Funding and backers
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
open roles
Grants
$1.7M
3 grants · CORDIS
Backers
2
Techstars, Illinois Ventures
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 29, 2025
Won a grant $150k · CORDIS
Aug 27, 2024
Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS
Feb 1, 2024
Won a grant $275k · CORDIS
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 53%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$120k – $190k
Open positions
7
7
Jobs
Junior
14.3%
Middle
28.6%
Senior
57.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $160k | $160k |
| Middle | 2 | $160k | $160k |
| Senior | 4 | $175k | $120k – $190k |
Highest paying role
Senior RF Engineer
$190k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Samara
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
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.
Hardware
43% ▼
Industrial Engineering
29% ▼
Field & Service
14% ▼
Aerospace
14% ▼
Activity Timeline
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Oct 2026
Added Nastran to stack
Oct 2026
Added Verification & Validation to stack
Oct 2026
Added IBM DOORS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Altium Designer to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Samara over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
16
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
Python
C++
Embedded C
MATLAB
Frameworks & libraries
MuJoCo
Cloud & platforms
Linux
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Full Samara tech stack
16 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
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Same group
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Shared investors
News
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
San Francisco (HQ)
7 open roles 43% engineering 10-50 est. staff $163k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Field & Service
How to cite this page
Alion, "Samara: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/samara-4
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