Wardstone
Air Defense · Defense AI
Truth index B
19Open roles14 posted in 30 days
$155kMedian advertised pay$130k – $170k+4% vs market
25EmployeesUS Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
B 75/100Truth index
Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026We design, build, and deploy modular interceptors to kinetically counter air-breathing and ballistic missiles.
It is hiring: 19 open roles, 14 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Seattle, United States
- Employees
- 25US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
- Open roles
- 19Alion job postings
- Website
- wardstone.space
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 19 open roles at Wardstone. Wardstone is headquartered in Seattle, United States. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $5M, announced in 2026. The median pay stated in its open roles is $140k, across 18 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 at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
Aerospace is the largest family, 33 of open roles.
14Posted in 30 days74% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 19
1Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
22 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Alion signals0-100
Demand40
Pay58
Your chance38
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 21This week
Open roles a week: 8 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
75 / 100Wardstone 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.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale100%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
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.
$155kMedianmarket estimate $135k
$130k – $170kTypical rangeUSD a year
$240kHighest paying roleLead Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Engineer
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $135k
$0$75k$150k$225k$300k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 1 city in 1 country.
1Cities
1Countries
El SegundoBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle United States | Headquarters | 0 | ||
| El Segundo United States | Regional office | 19 | Aerospace, Operations, Industrial Engineering | 5% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #7 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX | Arlington, United States | 3,750 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa, United States | 2,257 | 5000+ | |
| 3 | Shield AI | San Diego, United States | 617 | 1001-5000 | |
| 4 | Saronic Technologies | Austin, United States | 249 | 501-1000 | |
| 5 | ARXLIGHT | Oakland, United States | 21 | 201-500 | |
| 6 | Singularity Defense | Gardena, United States | 20 | 11-50 | |
| 7 | Wardstone | Seattle, United States | 19 | 51-200 | |
| 8 | Allen Control Systems | Austin, United States | 19 | 51-200 |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Financials
Funding rounds, investors and revenue on record.
$5MTotal raised
Venture - Series UnknownLatest round
1Rounds and grants
Money by yearUSD, rounds and grants
Largest rounds and grants
$5M
Sources: funding announcements, grant and company registers
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Wardstone over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
16Technologies in use
16Postings analysed
62/100Stack modernity
LanguagesPython 38%MATLAB 31%C++ 31%Julia 6%
Cloud & platformsRTOS 19%
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Full Wardstone tech stack16 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Feb 25
Raised a round Venture round $5M
Oct 2025
Went through Y Combinator
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 7%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Feb 252026
News · spacenews.com
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once