The Deep Tech Index

The Deep Tech Index.

A weekly read on hard-tech startup hiring.

Every week we scan 27 venture portfolios for open roles at defense, space, robotics, manufacturing, energy and frontier-AI startups, then compare where the hiring is concentrated across North America and Europe.

N. America Europe·Updated Aug 10·27 portfolios·21,185 open roles

Open roles

15,657

N. America ▲ 530

3,560

▼ 54 Europe

Companies hiring

454

N. America ▲ 0

129

▲ 0 Europe

Median salary

$167k

N. America

$138k

Europe

Open roles · by sector

Where the demand is

N. America ← → Europe
12,384

Manufacturing

1,183
6,397

Space

643
6,278

Robotics

564
6,511

Defense

215
5,725

Transport

529
4,631

Compute

668
2,909

AI

254
2,122

Energy

565

Pay · by function

What they're paying

60% list pay · USD
$75k
$125k
$175k
$225k
$275k
Engineering: median $168k, middle 50% $136k to $205k, from 5,323 posted ranges
Sales: median $175k, middle 50% $123k to $243k, from 632 posted ranges
Data & ML: median $209k, middle 50% $168k to $257k, from 765 posted ranges
Operations: median $128k, middle 50% $93k to $185k, from 480 posted ranges
Product: median $193k, middle 50% $165k to $220k, from 470 posted ranges

Engineering

7,904

Sales

1,337

Data & ML

1,320

Operations

796

Product

653

Every open role

The shape of the hiring

960 AI roles · 5%

By seniority

Internship
365
Entry level
1,244
Mid level
4,321
Senior
10,109
Director
1,419
VP
114
C-level
40
Unlabeled
874

By work mode

On-site: 16,218 roles (88%)88%Remote: 1,567 roles (8%)8%Hybrid: 701 roles (4%)
On-site16,21888%
Remote1,5678%
Hybrid7014%

By funding stage

Early / Seed
2,140
Series A
1,117
Series B
834
Series C
662
Series D+
1,635
Growth / Late
4,313

By team size

1–10
271
11–50
1,235
51–200
3,386
201–1,000
5,075
1,000+
8,335
Unknown
184

Top 10 · by total open roles

Rank movement

Last week → this week
Last weekThis week
  1. 1,628SpaceXSpaceX logo1
  2. 1,480Anduril IndustriesAnduril Industries logo2
  3. 707Frame.ioFrame.io logo3
  4. 510OpenAIOpenAI logo4
  5. 424Marvell SemiconductorMarvell Semiconductor logo5
  6. 421DatabricksDatabricks logo6
  7. 367Shield AIShield AI logo7
  8. 352Texas InstrumentsTexas Instruments logo8
  9. 348Plex Systems, Inc.Plex Systems, Inc. logo9
  10. 321AnthropicAnthropic logo10
  1. 1SpaceX logoSpaceX1,650
  2. 2Anduril Industries logoAnduril Industries1,525
  3. 3Frame.io logoFrame.io671
  4. 4OpenAI logoOpenAI513
  5. 5Databricks logoDatabricks443
  6. 6Marvell Semiconductor logoMarvell Semiconductor415
  7. 7Texas Instruments logoTexas Instruments377
  8. 8Shield AI logoShield AI368
  9. 9Plex Systems, Inc. logoPlex Systems, Inc.339
  10. 10Rocket Lab logoRocket Labnew322

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