Vertical Semiconductor

Power Supplies & Power Electronics · Analog & Power Semiconductors
5open roles
1backers · Playground
50+team · employees, estimated range
Btruth index, 75 of 100

Overview

Vertical Semiconductor is redefining power electronics with breakthrough vertical GaN technology from MIT—delivering higher efficiency, smaller footprints, and scalable voltage for data centers and grid infrastructure.

How Vertical Semiconductor hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Vertical Semiconductor scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 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

Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Playground
Momentum
8/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2025 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

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≈ $142k – $259k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 15+ years exp · PhD · Somerville
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
46/100
Stable
Open positions
5
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
34 days
faster than 39% 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.
Industrial Engineering
50% ▲
Early Careers
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added OrCAD to stack Nov 2026
Added Eagle to stack Nov 2026
Added Altium Designer to stack Nov 2026
Added TCAD to stack Oct 2026

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Vertical Semiconductor over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
60/100
Languages
MATLAB
Python
Developer tools
Altium Designer
Eagle
OrCAD
TCAD
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Connections

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Shared investors1
PlaygroundVia a fund
47 portfolio companies: Virta Health, xLight, XRlabs and 44 more

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Somerville
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Cambridge United States
HQ
Somerville United States
Plant / site
5 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 20% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Semiconductors
seen since Dec 2025 job postings