Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026
Singularity Defense is an aerospace and defense startup headquartered in Gardena, California, that develops low-cost counter-weapon and air defense systems designed to defeat drones and other mass-produced munitions at scale. Led by chief executive Jack Oswald, its founding team comes from SpaceX, Anduril and Lockheed Martin, it is backed by Silicon Valley investors and advisors including retired General Jim McConville, and its team keeps a near-constant presence in Ukraine. It hires propulsion, flight software, embedded, GNC, avionics, mechanical, electrical and manufacturing engineers and technicians, plus supply chain, finance and recruiting staff, mainly in Gardena and El Segundo.
It is hiring: 20 open roles, 10 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 20% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Gardena, United States
- Employees
- 11-50estimated range
- Open roles
- 20 in 3 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- singularityus.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 20 open roles at Singularity Defense. Singularity Defense is headquartered in Gardena, United States. The median pay stated in its open roles is $200k, across 5 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
95/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 26 of open roles.
10Posted in 30 days50% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 20
1Roles in AI5% of open roles
3Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
52 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States52On site
Remote, from elsewhere1Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 1.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Singularity Defense161 days
Market, same roles37 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand45
Pay50
Your chance42
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 21This week
Open roles a week: 37 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
A
95 / 100Singularity Defense scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 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 161 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering26▼
Field & Service16▲
Aerospace16▲
QA5▲
Hardware5▼
Leadership5▲
Newest roles
Program Manager$175k – $225k per year · Remote (United States) · Secret · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree
Mission Systems Manager≈ $99k – $188k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Gardena
Systems Engineer≈ $87k – $158k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Gardena
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 87%Master's Degree 7%High School Diploma 7%
Experience asked: 5 years on average, in 16 postings. 15 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Equity525%
401k plan315%
Professional development315%
Retirement plans15%
Contract type
Full-Time 19Part-Time 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 20% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$200kMedianmarket estimate $166k
$185k – $225kTypical rangeUSD a year
$225kHighest paying roleSenior Mechanical Engineer - Structures
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $166k
Senior4$200k$185k – $225k
$0$63k$125k$188k$250k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 3 cities in 1 country.
3Cities
1Countries
GardenaBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Ranked #8 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Technologies named in job postings at Singularity Defense over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
58Technologies in use
37Postings analysed
66/100Stack modernity
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 6%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Jul 142026
News · Tectonic Defense
The drone interceptor world is, like, hotter than hot right now, and investors aren't showing any signs of backing down just yet. This morning,
Jul 142026
News · axios.com
Singularity exited stealth Tuesday with millions of dollars in its pocket and a singular goal: improving and proliferating air defenses.
Jul 142026
Press release · businesswire.com
Founded and led by engineers from SpaceX, Tesla, and Anduril alongside operators who have deployed air defenses in combat, Singularity is deeply committed to delivering capabilit…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
