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How Xcimer Energy hires

Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
110 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
7%
Reposted roles
0%

Xcimer Energy scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 7% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 110 days. 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

Overview

Xcimer Energy is a Denver-based company developing laser-driven inertial fusion power and high-energy laser systems for air defense, built around large electron-beam-pumped excimer lasers. In 2024 it began building Phoenix, its first high-energy laser system, in its Denver laser bay, it has had a fusion power plant preconceptual design milestone approved by the US Department of Energy, and RTX has invested in it to develop directed energy technology. It hires optical, laser, pulsed power and nuclear engineers, physicists and materials scientists, scientific software and data engineers, technicians, quality and supply chain leaders, and summer interns.

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Shared investors3
gigascaleVia a fund
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News

News Interesting Engineering 1 month ago
Multi-kilojoule fusion lasers could power next-gen US air defense
RTX Ventures invests in Xcimer Energy to develop pulsed lasers for potential use in US directed-energy defense systems.
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News POWER Magazine 4 months ago
Xcimer Energy Starts Operations of Prototype for Laser Fusion Architecture
Colorado-headquartered Xcimer Energy has announced the start of operations for Phoenix, what the company calls the largest privately owned laser system in the world. Phoenix, named after the legendary bird from Greek and Egyptian mythology, is the company
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Xcimer Energy Completes First Private-Sector Electron-Beam Excimer Laser
DENVER, June 11, 2025--Xcimer Energy Inc. announced today that the inertial fusion startup has completed the world's first electron-beam-pumped excimer laser funded by the private sector.
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News Nature Index 1 year ago
Xcimer Energy
The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of scientific articles from high-quality publications. The research profile for Xcimer Energy reflects the research output of authors from Xcimer Energy who published articles in the 145 journals included in the Na
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News Pulse 2.0 2 years ago
Xcimer Energy: Inertial Fusion Company Raises $100 Million
Xcimer Energy announced that it had raised $100 million in Series A financing led by Hedosophia, with participation from investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Prelude Ventures, Emerson Collective, Gigascale Capital, and St
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Award businesswire 3 years ago
Xcimer Energy Announces Participation in Three Fusion Energy Hubs Awarded Funding by the U.S. Department of Energy
Xcimer Energy announced that it is participating in three fusion energy
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Xcimer Energy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
80
Postings analysed
40
Stack modernity
65/100
Languages
Python43%
MATLAB20%
C++15%
C5%
Frameworks & libraries
Ray5%
CUDA3%
MPI3%
Matplotlib3%
Databases
Delta Lake3%
Cloud & platforms
AWS5%
Kubernetes5%
Linux5%
Amazon S33%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$165k
Typical range
$60k – $284k
Open positions
58
54 Jobs
Intern 13%
Junior 3.7%
Middle 14.8%
Senior 35.2%
Staff 14.8%
Principal 3.7%
Architect 14.8%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 7 $70k $70k
Junior 2 $149k $138k – $160k
Middle 8 $150k $60k – $190k
Senior 19 $165k $104k – $220k
Staff 8 $178k $138k – $250k
Principal 2 $215k $210k – $220k
Architect 8 $272k $225k – $284k
Highest paying role Program Director, Plant Control Systems $284k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Xcimer Energy By role, level and city, against the market · 58 jobs with pay

People

Alexander Valys
Executive Officer, Director
Conner Galloway
Executive Officer, Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
58
17 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
118 days
faster than 10% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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
35% ▲
Energy
11%
Field & Service
7% ▲
Early Careers
7% ▼
Semiconductors
7%
Hardware
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+7 jobs in a week Oct 2026
Added EVMS to stack Oct 2026
Added Defense in Depth to stack Oct 2026
Added Waterfall to stack Oct 2026
Added PID Control to stack Oct 2026
Added AutoCAD to stack Oct 2026
Added RTOS to stack Oct 2026
Added FreeRTOS to stack Oct 2026
Added Embedded C to stack Oct 2026
Added Altium Designer to stack Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-461 to stack Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Denver
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Denver United States
HQ
57 open roles 54 posted in 90 days 23% engineering 200-500 est. staff $170k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Energy, Science & Research
10325 East 47th Ave., Denver, CO 80238, USA
seen since Oct 2023 company site, job postings
Tucson United States
Plant / site
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $112k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

$140k – $165k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Jira
Agile
Defense
EVMS
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$140k – $165k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Jira
Agile
Defense
EVMS
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$100k – $120k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Waterfall
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$125k – $150k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Python
C
C++
Embedded C
DevOps
RTOS
Git
Linux
Robotics
EtherCAT
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
IoT
FreeRTOS
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$106k – $125k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Python
Git
TCP/IP
Robotics
EtherCAT
PID Control
Management
Jira
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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$127k – $150k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Python
Git
TCP/IP
Robotics
EtherCAT
Management
Jira
Agile
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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$140k – $165k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Path Planning
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$241k – $284k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 15+ years exp · Denver
Agile
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$140k – $165k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Denver
Confluence
Jira
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$50k – $60k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · High School Diploma · Tucson
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$140k – $165k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Tucson
Statistical Process Control
SpaceTech
AS9100
FMEA
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$94k – $110k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Tucson
Statistical Process Control
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Financials

Total raised
$101.2M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2024 $100M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $365k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $875k Details