Swan
Defense AI · Drone AI
4open roles
Btruth index, 75 of 100
31stories in the press
14technologies in use
Overview
Swan is a defense and industrial technology company building scalable autonomous products on a modular autonomy platform, backed by defense-focused venture investors. It hires machine learning and signal processing engineers, forward deployed drone technicians and business development staff. The company operates in San Francisco and Washington, United States.
How Swan hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Swan scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
Jobs
$175k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
C++
Red Teaming
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
CI/CD
QEMU
IAM
Linux
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Threat Modeling
Defense
CMMC
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$80k – $140k per year · Hybrid · Nationals only · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · San Francisco
Linux
Robotics
ArduPilot
Design
SolidWorks
Management
Jira
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≈ $105k – $237k per year (Estimated) · Remote (United States) · Contractor
Python
C++
MATLAB
Inertial Navigation
Defense
Radar Signal Processing
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≈ $166k – $320k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · San Francisco
Python
C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Quantization
Knowledge Distillation
Computer Vision
ONNX
TensorRT
OpenCL
TensorFlow
PyTorch
CUDA
Edge AI
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
DevOps
Prometheus
Cortex
Robotics
ROS
Sensor Fusion
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$195k
Typical range
$140k – $250k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Middle
50%
Senior
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $140k | $140k |
| Senior | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Senior Platform Engineer, Embedded Linux & Security
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
25/100
Slowing
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
43 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Management
40% ▼
Hardware
20% ▲
Sales
20% ▼
Field & Service
20% ▼
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Swan over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
14
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
C++
Python
Frameworks & libraries
ArduPilot
Cloud & platforms
Linux
Figma
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Full Swan tech stack
14 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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Shared investors
Shine CapitalVia a fund
Scout VenturesVia a fund
Andreessen HorowitzVia a fund
857 portfolio companies
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Owner
Same company
Same group
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News
The Swan's Extreme Contestant Rules Are Jaw-Dropping 20 Years Later
Hulu's The Swan: Behind the Mirror revisits the reality show's extreme contestant rules and the lasting impact of its transformations.
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Red-Teaming after Mythos - Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
OpenAI boardmember Zico Kolter and Gray Swan CEO Matt Fredrikson join swyx to explain why AI security is not just
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The Swan in the Next Room
On the two architectures of attention, and the figure who walks quietly through both.
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'Black Swan' fund chief Mark Spitznagel predicts stocks will explode higher then crash
Mark Spitznagel of Universa Investments predicted a "blow-off top" for stocks, followed by the "worst crash since 1929."
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Trick or treat: Here
Read on to discover where comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS are in the Halloween night sky on Oct. 21 and find out if they
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Comets C/2025 A6 Lemmon & C/2025 R2 SWAN at their closest approach to Earth - online observation (24 Oct. 2025)
See comets C/2025 A6 and C/2025 R2 live, at their closest approach to the Earth. Join us on 20 Oct. 2025 from your home!
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50% engineering $195k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Hardware, Sales
Washington
United States
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales