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Mile End, London, UK10 people
1 of 327 roles
All teams327Software Engineering - Self-Driving44Software Engineering - Autonomy21Sales21Software Engineering - Defense50Finance6Software Engineering - Vehicle Systems57Marketing4Operations13People15Software Engineering - Data & Compute7Hardware20Program Management1Security & IT8Legal52026-2027 New Grad14Robotics3Software Engineering - Infrastructure5Design8AI Research15Application Engineering6Software Engineering - General4
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applied hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- applied has the 3rd most open roles of 2,946 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 327 open roles is 32.6× the average hiring startup (10.0).
- 77% of openings are in Engineering, then People (4%).
- Most roles are mid level (61%). 37 roles suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 10, these openings would grow headcount by up to 3270%.
- Engineering pay here (median $183k) is in line with the market median for Engineering ($183k).
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- 82% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- <1% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 56% of postings mention equity.
- 30 postings say they don’t sponsor visas.
- 335 roles added in the last 30 days; 8 closed in the last 90.
- Its roles stay open for a median 3 months before closing (market: 43 days).
- A typical open listing here is 3 months old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- <1% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
100%at 7 days100%at 30 days99%at 60 days98%at 90 days
Momentum, explained
- applied hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 335
- Roles added in 30 days
- 335
- Roles added in 90 days
- 335
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 8
- Median time a role stays open
- 3 months
- Market: 43 days
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #3
- of 2,946 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 32.70
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 327
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 15
- 5% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 83
- 25% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 3 months
- Oldest: 52 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $180k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $155k–$215k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 82%
- 269 of 327
- Mention equity
- 56%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- <1%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- 30 say they don’t
- Graduate and intern roles
- 37
- 5 internships
- Median experience asked
- 4 yrs
- 34 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
335
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering25177%
- 2People134%
- 3Operations113%
- 4Sales103%
- 5Other93%
- 6Product72%
- 7Design52%
- 8Finance52%
+16 more across 4 others
- 1Mid level19961%
- 2Manager4514%
- 3Senior3912%
- 4Graduate / entry3210%
- 5Internship52%
- 6Executive41%
- 7Director2<1%
- 8Staff1<1%
- 1Onsite326100%
- 2Remote1<1%
- 1Sunnyvale22569%
- 2Tokyo216%
- 3London134%
- 4Stuttgart134%
- 5Ann Arbor113%
- 6Washington93%
- 7Munich62%
- 8Fort Walton Beach52%
+24 more across 11 others
- 1Full-time32198%
- 2Internship52%
- 3Temporary1<1%
- 1Software Engineering - Vehicle Systems5717%
- 2Software Engineering - Defense5015%
- 3Software Engineering - Self-Driving4413%
- 4Sales216%
- 5Software Engineering - Autonomy216%
- 6Hardware206%
- 7AI Research155%
- 8People155%
+84 more across 13 others
$62kLow$155k25th$180kMedian$215k75th$423kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every applied role.