Avride develops self-driving cars and sidewalk delivery robots, and was created in 2024 when Nebius spun out the former Yandex autonomous vehicle division. Its delivery robots operate on American university campuses and with food delivery platforms, while its robotaxi programme runs with Hyundai and Uber. Engineering is based in Austin, Texas.
HQ: Austin, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Smart Mobility • Autonomous Driving • 201-500 employees • Est. 2024
≈ $101k – $232k per year (Estimated) • Austin • Remote (United States) • Relocation
Bash
C++
Python
C++
CMake
Python
Asyncio
DevOps
Bazel
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
GitHub
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
NixOS
Ubuntu
≈ $129k – $264k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid (Austin, United States) • Relocation
C++
Python
DevOps
NixOS
Cybersecurity
Tcpdump
Wireshark
≈ $105k – $236k per year (Estimated) • Austin • Remote (United States) • Relocation
Bash
Python
DevOps
Ansible
NixOS
Terraform
Specter tracks growth signals across millions of private companies to help investors find opportunities early. Founded in 2021, it combines web, hiring, app and social data into company momentum scores. Venture funds and corporate development teams use it for sourcing.
HQ: Singapore • Est. 2021
≈ $150k – $306k per year (Estimated) • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Python
Rust
TypeScript
C
C
Embedded C
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
NixOS
Self-Healing
Buildkite
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
GitHub
≈ $125k – $280k per year (Estimated) • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Bash
Go
Python
Rust
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Terraform
IAM
GitOps
NixOS
≈ $123k – $282k per year (Estimated) • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Rust
AI/ML
AI Agents
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
DevOps
CI/CD
RTOS
NixOS
Applied Intuition is a Silicon Valley software company founded in 2017 that develops digital infrastructure and simulation platforms for autonomous systems and physical AI. The platform provides advanced tools for simulation, synthetic data generation, and vehicle software management, allowing engineers to develop, test, and safely deploy self-driving technology. It serves leading global automotive manufacturers, defense organizations, and commercial transport companies across sectors like trucking, agriculture, and mining.
HQ: Mountain View, United States • Smart Mobility • Manufacturing • Automotive Manufacturing • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Driving • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2017
$140k – $195k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • In office (Sunnyvale, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Bash
Python
DevOps
Bazel
Buildkite
CI/CD
Jenkins
NixOS
Chips/EDA
JTAG Debuggers
QA
Pytest
MacPaw is a software company headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, and founded in 2008 by Oleksandr Kosovan. The company develops consumer applications for macOS and iOS including CleanMyMac, the Setapp subscription app service, Encrypto, and ClearVPN, sold directly to users worldwide. It employs several hundred people, has continued operating through the war in Ukraine, and runs the MacPaw Foundation alongside its commercial work.
HQ: Kyiv, Ukraine • Operating Systems • Endpoint Security • Laptops • Consumer Electronics • Productivity Software • Software • Cybersecurity • Est. 2008
Senior • Remote (Ukraine) • Senior • Ukrainian: C1
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
CI/CD
Cloudflare
GCP
Incident Management
Kubernetes
NixOS
SLI/SLO/SLA
Terraform
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
Kyverno
Least Privilege
Prisma Cloud
SOC 2
Sysdig Secure
Wiz
Management
Jira
Anduril Industries is an American defence technology company founded in 2017 that builds autonomous systems and command software for military and border security customers. Rather than bidding on cost-plus programmes, it develops products with its own capital and sells them as finished systems, from surveillance towers and counter-drone interceptors to underwater vehicles and collaborative combat aircraft. Its Lattice software platform fuses sensor data into a single operating picture and controls the hardware family, and the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California with a large manufacturing site in Ohio.
HQ: Costa Mesa, United States • Military Robotics • Military Drones • Defense AI • Military • Homeland Security • National Security • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2017
$253k per year • Equity • Senior • Washington • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Secret • Senior
C++
Go
Haskell
Python
Rust
AI/ML
Computer Vision
DevOps
NixOS
AWS
CI/CD
Terraform
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
$165k – $218k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Secret • Senior
C++
Python
Rust
AI/ML
Computer Vision
CUDA Toolkit
DevOps
CI/CD
NixOS
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
$129k – $171k per year • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Human-in-the-Loop
DevOps
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Jenkins
NixOS
Terraform
GitHub
GitLab
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
Leidos is a defense, intelligence, civil, and health information technology enterprise. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the Fortune 500 company (NYSE: LDOS) operates as one of the primary IT, scientific research, and systems integration contractors for the U.S. federal government, allied defense agencies, and commercial infrastructure entities.
HQ: Reston, United States • Government • Cybersecurity • Military • 5000+ employees • Est. 2013
$87k – $157k per year • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Chantilly, Boulder, San Antonio, Columbus, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Bash
Python
Databases
ElasticSearch
DevOps
NixOS
Ansible
Grafana
Loki
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Terraform
Saronic Technologies is an Austin defence company founded in 2022 that builds autonomous surface vessels for naval operations. Its uncrewed boats carry sensors and payloads for surveillance and escort missions, controlled by an autonomy stack developed in-house. The company has raised large rounds and is building shipyard capacity to produce vessels at volume.
HQ: Austin, United States • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2022
≈ $150k – $271k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 8+ years exp • In office (Austin, San Diego, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Rust
DevOps
NixOS
Robotics
Autonomous Navigation
Sensor Fusion
≈ $148k – $266k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 8+ years exp • In office (Austin, San Diego, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
Rust
Databases
Redis
AI/ML
Human-in-the-Loop
DevOps
NixOS
Buildkite
GitHub Actions
GitHub
Robotics
Autonomous Navigation
Sensor Fusion
ROS
ROS2
Zenoh
≈ $119k – $241k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Lead • 10+ years exp • In office (Austin, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
AWS
Azure
NixOS
Windows Server
HPC
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
NIST 800-171
Zero Trust
Web3
Layer 2
Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence safety and research company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, among them the siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of large language models and ships them through a consumer assistant, an enterprise developer platform and the Claude Code agentic coding tool, alongside open standards such as the Model Context Protocol. Incorporated as a public benefit corporation and headquartered in San Francisco, the company concentrates on interpretability, alignment and reliability research and counts Google and Amazon among its largest investors.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Code Intelligence • AI Agents • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2021
$405k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Staff
Go
Python
Rust
AI/ML
Claude
Multimodal AI
Anthropic
DevOps
Bazel
Buildkite
CI/CD
Docker
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
NixOS
GitHub
Mach Industries is an American defense technology and advanced manufacturing company. Founded in 2022 by Ethan Thornton and headquartered in Huntington Beach, California (with facilities in Austin and San Luis Obispo), the venture-backed startup develops autonomous defense hardware, strike munitions, and novel hydrogen-powered propulsion systems designed for scalable, high-volume manufacturing.
HQ: Huntington Beach, United States • Manufacturing • Defense Manufacturing • Military • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022
$130k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Huntington Beach, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Bash
C++
Python
Rust
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
TensorRT
Edge AI
DevOps
NixOS
Robotics
GStreamer
We believe in Space as humankind’s new horizon to build a better, sustainable Life on Earth. In Space, governments, institutions and companies rely on us to design, operate and deliver a whole range of satellite-based systems.
Victoria • Montreal • Orlando • Burlington • Irvine • Environmental Science • Space & Aerospace • Earth Observation • 5000+ employees
Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Bucharest, Romania) • Relocation • Full-Time • Middle • English
Bash
Python
Databases
Google Cloud Spanner
AI/ML
Vertex AI
DevOps
ArgoCD
CI/CD
FluxCD
GCP
GitOps
Google GKE
Grafana
Kubernetes
Loki
Mimir
NixOS
Platform Engineering
Prometheus
SLI/SLO/SLA
Terraform
≈ $43k – $91k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid (Paris, France) • Full-Time • French: C1
MinIO
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Gitea
Grafana
Kubernetes
NixOS
Prometheus
SLI/SLO/SLA
Amazon S3
≈ $47k – $112k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote/Hybrid (Paris, France) • Full-Time • Staff • French: C1
Python
DevOps
Ansible
Chaos Engineering
CI/CD
GCP
Grafana
HAProxy
Nginx
NixOS
Prometheus
SLI/SLO/SLA
Terraform
Revel Consulting is a Seattle-based digital consultancy (now part of the Infogain ecosystem) that specializes in business transformation, customer experience strategy, and technology enablement. Founded in 2006, the firm integrates strategy, design, and technical expertise to help organizations accelerate growth and modernize their digital ecosystems. Through deep domain expertise in areas such as journey mapping, cloud computing, operational process engineering, and organizational change management, the firm assists enterprises in navigating complex digital landscapes to deliver high-value, human-centered outcomes.
HQ: Seattle, United States • Information Technology • IT Consulting • Professional Services
≈ $115k – $224k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Los Angeles, San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Senior
Cython
C++
Go
Python
Rust
TypeScript
C++
CMake
Cython
Setuptools
DevOps
Ansible
AWS
Azure
Bazel
Chef
CI/CD
Configuration Management
GCP
NixOS
Terraform
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
≈ $112k – $222k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • In office (Los Angeles, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Rust
DevOps
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Prometheus
GitLab CI
NixOS
GitLab
Shield AI is an American defence technology company founded in 2015 that builds autonomy software and uncrewed aircraft for military missions. Its Hivemind autonomy stack lets aircraft fly, navigate and complete objectives without GPS, a remote pilot or a communications link, which matters in contested environments where those links are jammed. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the company fields the V-BAT vertical take-off aircraft with United States and allied forces, licenses Hivemind to other manufacturers and is developing the X-BAT jet for high-end missions.
HQ: San Diego, United States • Space & Aerospace • Drones & UAVs • Defense AI • Military Drones • Military • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015
≈ $125k – $260k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • In office (Melbourne, Australia) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Staff
C++
C
C
FFmpeg
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
OpenCV
Edge AI
DevOps
CI/CD
NixOS
Robotics
GStreamer
QED.ai, formally known as Quantitative Engineering Design, develops data systems and artificial intelligence solutions focused on human health and agriculture. It builds sustainable AI driven tools and platforms to overcome data scarcity in these domains in support of humanitarian and development projects.
HQ: Warsaw, Poland • Biotechnology • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2008
≈ $72k – $132k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 6+ years exp • In office (Warsaw, Poland) • Full-Time • Staff • English: C1 (Optional)
K3s
NixOS
Terraform
Kubernetes
≈ $40k – $89k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • In office (Warsaw, Poland) • Full-Time • Middle • English (Optional)
K3s
NixOS
PagerDuty
Terraform
Kubernetes
BSI is a Swiss software company founded in 1996 and based in Baden. Its BSI Customer Suite covers customer relationship management, marketing automation and contact centre for banks, insurers and retailers. The product is used by many of the largest Swiss and German financial institutions.
HQ: Wettingen, Switzerland • Sales & Marketing • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 1996
≈ $83k – $176k per year (Estimated) • In office • German: B2 • English: B2
Rust
DevOps
Ansible
NixOS
Tutor Intelligence is an industrial AI and robotics software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts. Spun out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in 2021 by Josh Gruenstein and Alon Kosowsky-Sachs, the venture-backed firm has raised over $40 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, E14 Fund, and Initialized Capital.
HQ: Watertown, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Hardware • Logistics • Artificial Intelligence
$100k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Cursor
AI Agents
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
CI/CD
IAM
gRPC
NixOS
Pioneering off-road autonomy for defense. We’re not talking commercial trucks and taxis on dirt roads. We’re talking no roads, no GPS, going cross country.
Seattle • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Military • Autonomous Driving
$170k – $200k per year • Equity • Senior • 6+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
DevOps
CI/CD
NixOS
Ubuntu
Cybersecurity
NIST 800-53
OWASP ASVS
SBOM
Least Privilege
Robotics
ROS
Antithesis is an autonomous software testing company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, and founded in 2018 by the team behind FoundationDB. The company runs software inside a deterministic hypervisor that explores program states, finds rare bugs, and replays any failure exactly as it occurred. It sells to teams building databases, distributed systems, and other infrastructure where nondeterministic bugs are hard to reproduce with conventional test suites.
HQ: Tysons, United States • DevOps • Simulation & Digital Twin • Software • Information Technology • Quality Assurance • Est. 2018
$185k – $250k per year • Lead • In office • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Go
Java
Python
Rust
TypeScript
DevOps
NixOS
Terraform
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| All levels |
16 |
$194K |
$200K |
$220K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 36 open NixOS jobs from 17 companies. 1 of them was posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 13 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
16 of these NixOS jobs state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $194K and $220K a year, with a median of $200K. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are France (2), Poland (2), and Romania (1). 33% of the listings are fully remote and a further 14% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open NixOS jobs right now are Anduril Industries (9), Saronic Technologies (4), Avride (3), Specter (3), Thales Alenia Space (3), and Revel Consulting (2). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are NixOS (36), Python (26), CI/CD (21), Terraform (16), C++ (15), Rust (14), Sensor Fusion (12), and Kubernetes (12). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current NixOS jobs, 9 state visa sponsorship, 5 offer a relocation package, and 15 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
