Starfish Holdings
starfish.io
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Engineering Services
Missiles
C4ISR
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How Starfish Holdings hires
Truth index
B 82/100
Median time to fill
17 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
91%
Reposted roles
0%
Starfish Holdings scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 22 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 91% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 17 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
Overview
Starfish Holdings is an American defence and government services company that supplies engineering, test and cybersecurity support to United States military and federal customers. Its work covers aviation and missile systems test and evaluation, independent verification and validation, systems engineering, cybersecurity accreditation and data analytics, largely delivered by cleared staff embedded with government programme offices. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama alongside the army aviation and missile community it serves, the company also supports test operations at Arnold Air Force Base and other government ranges.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Starfish Holdings over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
141
Postings analysed
156
Stack modernity
71/100AI adopter
Languages
Python42%
MATLAB22%
C++19%
Java11%
Frameworks & libraries
ASP.NET Core3%
NumPy3%
PyTorch3%
Commander.js3%
Databases
Oracle4%
PostgreSQL3%
SQLite1%
MS SQL1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux24%
Windows18%
Azure14%
Kubernetes12%
AI & ML
LLM1%
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Full Starfish Holdings tech stack
141 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$155k
Typical range
$150k – $165k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Senior
66.7%
Principal
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | $153k | $150k – $155k |
| Principal | 1 | $165k | $165k |
Highest paying role
Systems Engineer, Principal
$165k
Normalized to USD per year
Products
Data Analytics
Analysis and visualisation of test and operational data for government customers. It has grown quickly because instrumented test programmes now generate far more data than analysts can review by hand, and the government rarely has the internal capacity to build the tooling.
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Independent Verification and Validation
Independent assessment of whether delivered systems meet their requirements. Because it must be performed by an organisation with no stake in the delivery, it is a service only a separate contractor can provide.
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Cybersecurity Services
Accreditation, assessment and information system security officer support for defence networks. Much of the demand comes from the continuous authorisation requirements defence systems now operate under.
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Systems Engineering
Requirements, architecture and integration support for defence acquisition programmes. Engineers sit inside programme offices to supply capacity the government cannot hire directly at the pace programmes require.
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Test and Evaluation
Planning, instrumentation and analysis for aviation and missile system testing at government ranges. The work is done alongside the government test community rather than as an outsourced deliverable, which is why it concentrates around a few specific installations.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
88/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
129
52 opened / 69 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
18 days
faster than 55% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~13 hours
10/15/2026
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.
Early Careers
26% ▲
Backend
12% ▼
QA
8% ▼
DevOps
7% ▼
Analytics
7% ▼
Industrial Engineering
6%
Actively hiring for Early Careers (+18 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added OCR to stack
Oct 2026
Added AutoCAD to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Edwards
Oct 2026
Added Prompt Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Wright-Patterson AFB
Sep 2026
Added SAP BusinessObjects to stack
Sep 2026
Added CIS Benchmarks to stack
Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack
Sep 2026
Added Sensor Fusion to stack
Sep 2026
Added Radare2 to stack
Sep 2026
Added IDA Pro to stack
Sep 2026
Added Ghidra to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
7
Hiring now
7
Countries
1
Busiest office
Huntsville
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Huntsville
United States
HQ
Freedom - Corp - Hays Farm
63 open roles 101 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Backend, Hardware, Analytics
Redstone Arsenal
United States
Regional office
Redstone Arsenal, VB I
11 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, QA, Early Careers
Kettering
United States
Regional office
Kettering Government Off-Site
7 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Early Careers, Security, Support
Robins
United States
Regional office
Robins AFB
7 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Early Careers, Enterprise Apps, Field & Service
Wright-Patterson AFB
United States
Regional office
Wright Patterson AFB
3 open roles 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Early Careers
Edwards
United States
Edwards AFB
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Early Careers
Shalimar
United States
Shalimar - Torch Field Office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for HR
Earlier presence
Arnold, United States
Jobs
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≈ $156k – $285k per year (Estimated) • In office • Secret • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Edwards
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≈ $102k – $202k per year (Estimated) • In office • Top Secret • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States
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≈ $71k – $143k per year (Estimated) • In office • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
Python
Bash
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
DevOps
Splunk
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
OpenShift
Azure DevOps
Prometheus
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
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Kubernetes
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Amazon EKS
Google GKE
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≈ $120k – $218k per year (Estimated) • In office • TS/SCI • Full-Time • 14+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
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≈ $123k – $224k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 20+ years exp • Master's Degree • Huntsville
C++
Red Hat
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