Distributed Spectrum
Founded in 2020, Distributed Spectrum is a venture-backed, defense tech company working at the cutting edge of signal processing, machine learning, and embedded systems. We build software and sensors to let anyone understand critical radio signals in any mission.
Series ANew York City Area35 peopleFounded 2020
7 of 14 roles
$200k–$300kApply
Roles are read from Distributed Spectrum’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Distributed Spectrum hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Distributed Spectrum has the 494th most open roles of 2,630 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 14 open roles is 1.3× the average Series A startup here (10.7).
- 64% of openings are in Engineering, then Marketing (29%).
- Most roles are mid level (50%). 1 role suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 35, these openings would grow headcount by up to 40%.
- Median posted pay of $180k is 9% above the Series A startup median ($165k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $193k) is 4% above the market median for Engineering ($185k).
- 93% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 7% of its roles are fully remote (market: 22%).
- 100% of postings mention equity.
- 14 postings say they don’t sponsor visas.
- 14 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 2 months old, against 2 months across the site.
- Founded 6 years ago.
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
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
Momentum, explained
- Distributed Spectrum hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 14
- Roles added in 30 days
- 14
- Roles added in 90 days
- 14
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #494
- of 2,630 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.40
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 14
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 5
- 36% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 2 months
- Oldest: 8 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $180k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $175k–$200k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 93%
- 13 of 14
- Mention equity
- 100%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 7%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- 14 say they don’t
- Graduate and intern roles
- 1
- Median experience asked
- 4 yrs
- 1 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
14
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering964%
- 2Marketing429%
- 3Product17%
- 1Mid level750%
- 2Senior429%
- 3Director17%
- 4Graduate / entry17%
- 5Manager17%
- 1Onsite1286%
- 2Hybrid17%
- 3Remote17%
- 1New York City14100%
- 1Full-time14100%
- 1Engineering750%
- 2Growth536%
- 3Operations17%
- 4Product17%
$75kLow$175k25th$180kMedian$200k75th$300kHigh
$113kLow$113k25th$165kMedian$213k75th$213kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Distributed Spectrum role.