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Overview

Starfish Holdings is an employee-owned defense holding company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, whose operating history traces back to the 2002 founding of its main subsidiary Torch Technologies. The group delivers research, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and test support services to United States defense and missile defense programs through Torch Technologies, Freedom Real Estate & Capital, and SIMVANA. It is owned entirely by the Starfish Employee Stock Ownership Plan and staffs programs at Redstone Arsenal, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and other federal sites.

Technologies

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Python
MATLAB
C++
ASP.NET Core
CUDA
WPF
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Oracle
Azure
AWS
GCP
LLM
AI/ML
Python
MATLAB
C++
SQL
Cython
Azure
CI/CD
Git
GitLab
Docker
Azure DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Jenkins
Ansible
Podman
Configuration Management
Bitbucket
Terraform
VMWare
Grafana
GitLab CI
CMake
PostgreSQL
OpenShift
Splunk
GCP
Amazon EKS
Prometheus
GitHub
Meson
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
KVM
Ubuntu
Windows Server
KubeVirt
Google GKE
CloudFormation
GitHub Actions
Helm
Asio
Eigen
Simulink
Copilot
PyTorch
TensorFlow
NumPy
Mixture of Experts
Model Context Protocol
SQLite
Oracle
MS SQL
Hyper-V
Puppet
SaltStack
SLI/SLO/SLA
Red Hat
Amazon EC2
JFrog Artifactory
IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
Explainable AI
AI Agents
Security
Bash
JavaScript
PowerShell
Go
C
Assembly
Checkmarx
Fortify
SonarQube
Threat Modeling
Valgrind
FedRAMP
Zero Trust
OWASP SAMM
OWASP Top 10
Keystone Engine
Nessus
Mobile
C#
Java
Node JS
TypeScript
ASP.NET Core
Entity Framework Core
WPF
Maven
Commander.js
Blazor
gRPC for .NET
Dependency Injection
MVVM
Gradle
SolidWorks
Hardware
Ada
VHDL
Altium Designer
Eagle
OrCAD
Data Science
Fortran
Tableau
ETL/ELT
Power BI
Matplotlib
Plotly
Other
Jira
Confluence
Rest API
gRPC
.NET
Axure RP
Power Apps
Power Automate
ServiceNow
Angular
Tailwind CSS
Microsoft Project
Stack modernity Modern AI adopter
71/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python 31 job Required
MATLAB 18 jobs Required
C++ 14 jobs Required
Jira 13 jobs Required
Azure 13 jobs Required
CI/CD 12 jobs Required
C# 10 jobs Required
Java 10 jobs Required
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
28%
SQL
25%
CI/CD
25%
JavaScript
23%
Docker
21%
AWS
20%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Amazon S3 Aug 2026
Amazon CloudWatch Aug 2026
OpenAI Aug 2026
Anthropic Aug 2026
Model Context Protocol Aug 2026
Mixture of Experts Aug 2026
ETL/ELT Aug 2026
GitLab Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Growth

Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
76
14 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
13 days
faster than 61% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~7 hours
08/31/2026
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.
QA
20%
DevOps
19%
Backend
16%
Analytics
12%
Security
10%
Hardware
8%
Actively hiring for Backend (+10 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added gRPC for .NET to stack Aug 2026
Added Blazor to stack Aug 2026
Added MVVM to stack Aug 2026
Added gRPC to stack Aug 2026
Added Entity Framework Core to stack Aug 2026
Added Dependency Injection to stack Aug 2026
Added .NET to stack Aug 2026
Added C to stack Aug 2026
Added Valgrind to stack Aug 2026
Added Helm to stack Aug 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack Aug 2026
Added OWASP Top 10 to stack Aug 2026

Jobs

Entry-Level Test Engineer/Analyst

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$64k – $127k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • United States
Python
SQL
Tableau
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Entry/Junior Level Software Engineer

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$84k – $166k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
C#
ASP.NET Core
Blazor
Entity Framework Core
gRPC for .NET
WPF
DevOps
Azure
Azure DevOps
Configuration Management
Git
gRPC
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Entry/Junior Level Software Engineer-WPF/MVVM

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$84k – $166k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
C#
.NET
Entity Framework Core
Mobile
Dependency Injection
MVVM
DevOps
Azure
Azure DevOps
Configuration Management
Git
gRPC
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Electrical Engineer

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$94k – $187k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
C#
Altium Designer
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Software System Engineer 

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$117k – $239k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
Confluence
Jira
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Junior Radar Modeling and Simulation Engineer

Verified live · 1 day ago 5 days ago
In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
C++
Fortran
MATLAB
Python
Simulink
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Junior Radar Engineer

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In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
C++
Fortran
MATLAB
Python
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Entry-Level Radar Engineer

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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
C++
Fortran
MATLAB
Python
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DevSecOps Engineer

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$107k – $215k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
Bash
Python
Amazon EKS
Ansible
CI/CD
Configuration Management
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Grafana
Helm
Kubernetes
Podman
Prometheus
Terraform
Ubuntu
AWS
GitHub
GitLab
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Test Engineer - Aerodynamic Wind Tunnel

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$74k – $142k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States
Python
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Hypersonic Aerothermal Test Engineer/Analyst

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$90k – $181k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Arnold
MATLAB
Python
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Hypersonic Aeropropulsion Test Analyst

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$74k – $143k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Arnold
MATLAB
Python
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