Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026
Two Six Technologies is an American company formed in 2021 when the private equity firm Carlyle combined the national security business of IST Research with parts of Two Six Labs. It builds cyber capabilities, electronic warfare systems, information operations tooling and research prototypes for United States defence and intelligence customers, sitting closer to research than to traditional systems integration. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it employs mostly cleared engineers and researchers, and much of its work involves turning DARPA-funded research into systems operational units can actually deploy.
It is hiring: 77 open roles, 24 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 56% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Arlington, United States
- Founded
- 2021
- Open roles
- 77 in 11 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- twosixtech.com
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 77 open roles at Two Six Technologies. Two Six Technologies is headquartered in Arlington, United States. It was founded in 2021. The median pay stated in its open roles is $200k, across 68 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
80/100
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
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Security is the largest family, 15 of open roles.
24Posted in 30 days31% of open roles are fresh
12%Remote roles9 of 77
5Roles in AI7% of open roles
11Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
133 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States133On site
Remote, from elsewhere9Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 9.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Two Six Technologies35 days
Market, same roles33 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand99
Pay49
Your chance60
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+178%
Jul 20This week
Open roles a week: 27 then, 75 now
Are the postings real?
B
80 / 100Two Six Technologies scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 22 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 82% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 35 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale82%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Security15▲
Backend12
Product9▼
DevOps8▼
Hardware8▼
Management8▼
Newest roles
Customer Success Manager$135k – $170k per year · Remote (United States) · TS/SCI · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
Senior Software Engineer$125k – $188k per year · Remote (United States) · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 96%Master's Degree 4%
Experience asked: 4.7 years on average, in 56 postings. 45 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Professional development7294%
Vision insurance7192%
Hybrid work11%
Continuous learning11%
Contract type
Internship 4Full-Time 2
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
Pays 56% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$200kMedian
$90k – $324kTypical rangeUSD a year
$324kHighest paying rolePrincipal Radio Frequency Engineer
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 11 cities in 1 country.
11Cities
1Countries
HerndonBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Technologies named in job postings at Two Six Technologies over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
175Technologies in use
126Postings analysed
69/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Newsroom
top 0.95%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
1Hacker News storiesbest: 2 points
Sep 162026
Blog
Information warfare is evolving rapidly as social media and artificial intelligence enable adversaries to create and distribute disinformation at unprecedented speed. In a new sp…
Sep 102026
Blog
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Aug 282026
Blog
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - August 2026 - Two Six Technologies recently celebrated the opening of its newly expanded office in Ellicott City, Maryland, marking an exciting milestone as…
Aug 282026
Blog
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Aug 182026
Blog
What is Helix? The mandate for AI dominance in the National Security domain is urgent, but the financial and operational costs of replacing legacy software are prohibitive. Recog…
Aug 172026
Award
Vice President of Contracts & Procurement, Two Six Technologies Mandy Walter-Beam's biggest recent achievement was leading Two Six through its first CPSR review and getting DCMA…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
