Thorn
Homeland Security · Nonprofits & Foundations
4Open roles1 posted in 30 days+1 this week
$221kMedian advertised pay
Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026We builds tools to defend children from grooming, sextortion and more. We're on a mission to eliminate child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) from the internet.
It is hiring: 4 open roles, 1 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Open roles
- 4Alion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q16211951
- Website
- thorn.org
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Leadership is the largest family, 33 of open roles.
1Posted in 30 days25% of open roles are fresh
100%Remote roles4 of 4
2Roles in AI50% of open roles
Alion signals0-100
Demand38
Pay30
Your chance48
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−20%
Sep 7This week
Open roles a week: 5 then, 4 now
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Degree asked
Master's Degree 100%
1 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pay
What its postings pay, by level.
$221kMedian
$109k – $302kTypical rangeUSD a year
$302kHighest paying roleDirector of Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Thorn over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
37Technologies in use
8Postings analysed
75/100Stack modernity
LanguagesPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptNode JS
Frameworks & librariesReact.jsDiffusersDocusaurusFAISS
DatabasesElasticSearchPostgreSQL
Cloud & platformsAWSKubernetesApache KafkaGCP
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Full Thorn tech stack37 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Newsroom
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2Hacker News storiesbest: 5 points
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Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once