Torc Robotics
Logistics · Road Transport
Truth index BSponsors visas
40Open roles13 posted in 30 days+5 this week
$184kMedian advertised pay$167k – $213k+4% vs market
50 daysTime to fillmedian of 77 closed rolesmarket: 47 days
639EmployeesUS Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026Torc Robotics is an American autonomous driving company founded in 2005 by a Virginia Tech team that competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge, and it was acquired by Daimler Truck in 2019. It develops self-driving software for long-haul freight trucks, working with a manufacturer that builds the vehicle rather than retrofitting third-party trucks, which gives it access to the redundant steering and braking systems autonomy actually requires. Headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia with operations in Texas and New Mexico, it is targeting driverless freight operation on interstate routes in the American southwest.
It is hiring: 40 open roles, 13 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Blacksburg, United States
- Founded
- 2005
- Employees
- 639US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
- Open roles
- 40 in 4 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q30694374
- Website
- torc.ai
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 40 open roles at Torc Robotics. Torc Robotics is headquartered in Blacksburg, United States. It was founded in 2005. The median pay stated in its open roles is $184k, across 37 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
75/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
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.
Backend is the largest family, 20 of open roles.
13Posted in 30 days33% of open roles are fresh
100%Remote roles40 of 40
22Roles in AI56% of open roles
4Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
67 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 53.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand89
Pay49
Your chance60
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+52%
Jul 27This week
Open roles a week: 27 then, 41 now
Are the postings real?
B
75 / 100Torc Robotics 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. Its roles close in a median of 50 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale100%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 97%Master's Degree 3%
Experience asked: 5.8 years on average, in 36 postings. 37 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
What its postings pay, by level.
$184kMedianmarket estimate $177k
$167k – $213kTypical rangeUSD a year
$300kHighest paying roleStaff, ML Engineer - Scene Generation
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $177k
$0$75k$150k$225k$300k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Visa
Full chapter →Named in the work visa registers of United States.
United StatesUS 71
Top 4% of 8,998 sponsors
71 ▼ 22%H-1B filings in 12 months
9Green card filings
$170kMedian offered salary
Who they sponsor
5 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits In the register as TORC Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 29, 2026
Footprint
Hiring in 4 cities in 2 countries.
4Cities
2Countries
Ann ArborBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blacksburg United States | Headquarters | 2 | QA, Robotics | 100% |
| Ann Arbor United States | Engineering / R&D | 28 | AI/ML, Industrial Engineering, Backend | 61% |
| Fort Worth United States | Plant / site | 4 | Field & Service, Product, Education | 0% |
| Montreal Canada | Regional office | 1 | AI/ML | 100% |
| New York United States | Regional office | 0 | ||
| Denver United States | Regional office | 0 | ||
| Detroit United States | Regional office | 0 | ||
| Seattle United States | Regional office | 0 |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Financials
1 public grant on record, $740k in total.
$740kPublic grants1 public grant
Money by yearUSD, rounds and grants
Largest rounds and grants
2018
$740k
Sources: funding announcements, grant and company registers
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Torc Robotics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
156Technologies in use
106Postings analysed
79/100Stack modernityAI adopter
LanguagesPython 74%C++ 45%SQL 12%Bash 9%
Frameworks & librariesROS 29%Ray 22%PyTorch 18%ROS2 12%
Cloud & platformsLinux 29%AWS 28%GitHub Actions 14%AWS Lambda 10%
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Full Torc Robotics tech stack156 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Apr 3, 2018
Won a grant $740k · CORDIS
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
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1Hacker News storiesbest: 1 points
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