Systems and Technology Research
Cyber Warfare · Defense AI
113open roles
$220kmedian advertised pay
Scaling fasthiring pace, 82 of 100
Atruth index, 86 of 100
Overview
Systems and Technology Research is an American defence research company that develops sensing, autonomy and decision systems for United States government customers. Its engineers work on radar and electro-optical signal processing, multi-sensor fusion, machine learning applied to intelligence problems, autonomous mission planning and cyber capabilities, typically under research contracts with defence agencies rather than as a product vendor. Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts with offices in Arlington and Dayton, it employs mostly cleared technical staff and competes for work against the federally funded research centres and other defence laboratories.
How Systems and Technology Research hires
Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
48 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
56%
Reposted roles
0%
Systems and Technology Research scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 39 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 56% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 48 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
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$134k – $184k per year · In office · Top Secret · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Woburn
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$174k – $225k per year · In office · Top Secret · 5+ years exp · PhD · Dayton
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$174k – $225k per year · In office · Top Secret · 5+ years exp · PhD · Dayton
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$180k – $230k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 8+ years exp · PhD · Arlington
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$180k – $230k per year · In office · TS/SCI · 8+ years exp · PhD · Arlington
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$111k – $145k per year · In office · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Arlington
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$173k – $216k per year · In office · Top Secret · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Woburn
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$120k – $150k per year · In office · Top Secret · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Arlington
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$138k – $190k per year · In office · Top Secret · Bachelor's Degree · Woburn
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$219k – $300k per year · In office · Top Secret · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Arlington
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$219k – $300k per year · In office · Top Secret · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Arlington
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$240k – $290k per year · Remote (United States) · TS/SCI · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Arlington
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$90k – $330k
Open positions
120
115
Jobs
Intern
0.9%
Junior
5.2%
Middle
1.7%
Senior
31.3%
Staff
41.7%
Principal
16.5%
Architect
2.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $108k | $108k |
| Junior | 6 | $145k | $125k – $154k |
| Middle | 2 | $125k | $90k – $160k |
| Senior | 36 | $180k | $117k – $230k |
| Staff | 48 | $223k | $125k – $240k |
| Principal | 19 | $284k | $175k – $290k |
| Architect | 3 | $300k | $300k – $330k |
Highest paying role
Controller, Vice President of Accounting
$330k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Systems and Technology Research
By role, level and city, against the market · 120 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
4
H-1B filings in 12 months
$133k
Median offered salary
118
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Electrical engineers
2
Mechanical engineers
2
In the register as STR Group USA, Inc., Troy, MI
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
82/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
121
43 opened / 47 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
49 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+173%
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.
Backend
29% ▲
Hardware
16% ▼
AI/ML
9% ▼
Industrial Engineering
7% ▲
Management
7%
DevOps
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+17 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Las Vegas
Nov 2026
Added Rust to stack
Nov 2026
Added Terraform to stack
Oct 2026
Added Syft to stack
Oct 2026
Added Splunk to stack
Oct 2026
Added Semgrep to stack
Oct 2026
Added Grype to stack
Oct 2026
Added Grafana to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Test to stack
Oct 2026
Added Bazel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Project to stack
Oct 2026
Added EVMS to stack
Oct 2026
Products
Mission Systems Integration
Assembly of research results into deployable systems for operational users. This is the step that distinguishes the company from pure research organisations, and it is where most programmes either deliver or fail.
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Cyber Research
Reverse engineering, vulnerability research and defensive tooling built for government customers. It is staffed almost entirely by cleared engineers working inside accredited facilities, which limits how the work can be described publicly and how quickly the team can be scaled.
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Machine Learning for Defence
Applied machine learning for target recognition, anomaly detection and intelligence analysis. Because training data in this domain is scarce and classified, much of the work concerns learning from small or synthetic datasets.
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Autonomy Algorithms
Planning, navigation and coordination software for uncrewed air and ground systems. Assignments cover both single-platform autonomy and the harder problem of coordinating multiple vehicles under degraded communications.
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Sensor Processing
Signal and image processing algorithms for radar, electro-optical and radio frequency sensors. The work sits at the point where raw sensor returns become usable detections, which is where most of the technical difficulty in surveillance systems actually lies.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Systems and Technology Research over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
148
Postings analysed
216
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
Python78%
C++62%
MATLAB39%
Java16%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch7%
TensorFlow5%
TensorFlow C++5%
Matplotlib5%
Cloud & platforms
Linux34%
GitLab14%
Kubernetes13%
Windows11%
AI & ML
LLM4%
Vision Transformer1%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
10
Hiring now
10
Countries
2
Busiest office
Woburn
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Woburn
United States
HQ
Woburn
45 open roles 38 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Backend, Management
Arlington
United States
Engineering / R&D
Arlington
35 open roles 48 posted in 90 days 77% engineering 50-200 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Industrial Engineering
1201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA, 22209, USA
Arlington
United States
Plant / site
Remote
33 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 70% engineering 15% remote 50-200 est. staff $224k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering, AI/ML
Dayton
United States
Regional office
Arlington
30 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 3% remote 50-200 est. staff $226k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, AI/ML, Backend
Atlanta
United States
Engineering / R&D
Arlington
22 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 95% engineering 50-200 est. staff $201k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, DevOps
San Diego
United States
Engineering / R&D
San Diego
17 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 82% engineering 24% remote 50-200 est. staff $226k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Hardware
Melbourne
United States
Plant / site
Melbourne
9 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 78% engineering 10-50 est. staff $180k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Hardware
Denver
United States
Plant / site
Denver
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 33% remote 10-50 est. staff $222k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps
Las Vegas
United States
Remote
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for QA, Industrial Engineering
Melbourne
Australia
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Early Careers
Earlier presence
Arlington, United States