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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
PyTorch
TensorFlow
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Oracle
Azure
AWS
GCP
LLM
AI/ML
Python
MATLAB
C++
SQL
Cython
CI/CD
Azure
GitLab
Docker
Git
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure DevOps
Podman
Jenkins
Ansible
Bitbucket
Terraform
VMWare
Grafana
GitLab CI
GitHub
CMake
Meson
PostgreSQL
OpenShift
Splunk
Configuration Management
GCP
Amazon EKS
Prometheus
Copilot
PyTorch
TensorFlow
NumPy
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
KVM
Ubuntu
Windows Server
Red Hat
KubeVirt
Google GKE
CloudFormation
GitHub Actions
Helm
Asio
Eigen
Simulink
Mixture of Experts
Model Context Protocol
Keras
Scikit-learn
SQLite
Oracle
MS SQL
Hyper-V
Puppet
SaltStack
SLI/SLO/SLA
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
Java
C#
Node JS
TypeScript
ASP.NET Core
Maven
Commander.js
WPF
Gradle
Entity Framework Core
Blazor
gRPC for .NET
SolidWorks
Dependency Injection
MVVM
Hardware
Ada
VHDL
Altium Designer
Eagle
OrCAD
Data Science
Fortran
Tableau
ETL/ELT
Matplotlib
Power BI
Plotly
Other
Jira
Confluence
Rest API
Axure RP
Power Apps
Power Automate
ServiceNow
gRPC
.NET
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 33 jobs Required
MATLAB 20 jobs Required
C++ 15 jobs Required
Jira 13 jobs Required
CI/CD 13 jobs Required
Azure 11 jobs Required
Java 10 jobs Required
GitLab 10 jobs Required
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
28%
CI/CD
25%
SQL
24%
JavaScript
23%
Docker
21%
AWS
20%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Scikit-learn Aug 2026
Keras Aug 2026
Amazon S3 Aug 2026
Amazon CloudWatch Aug 2026
OpenAI Aug 2026
Anthropic Aug 2026
Model Context Protocol Aug 2026
Mixture of Experts 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
75
14 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
13 days
faster than 61% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~12 hours
Today
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
17%
Analytics
12%
Security
9%
Hardware
7%
Actively hiring for Backend (+12 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

Software Developer

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$96k – $190k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
Python
Copilot
Keras
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
DevOps
Docker
GitHub
Kubernetes
Podman
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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 • Arnold
Python
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System Administrator

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$101k – $196k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Associate's Degree • Huntsville
Red Hat
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Senior Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Software Engineer

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$129k – $232k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
Ada
C++
Fortran
MATLAB
Python
Cython
Meson
AI/ML
NumPy
DevOps
CI/CD
GitLab
Analytics
Matplotlib
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Senior Technical Project Manager

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$116k – $227k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Arnold
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Missile Defense Radar Analyst/Engineer 

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$84k – $170k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Huntsville
MATLAB
Python
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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 hour 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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Hypersonic Aerothermal Test Engineer/Analyst

Verified live · 1 hour ago 5 days ago
$90k – $181k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Arnold
MATLAB
Python
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