Epirus
Epirus develops solid-state, software-defined directed energy systems for counter-electronics applications and power management in defense and commercial sectors. The company specializes in long-pulse high-power microwaves combined with AI and advanced electronics for electronic warfare.
Hawthorne, NJ, USA200 people
1 of 39 roles
All teams39Engineering11Manufacturing2Technical Program Management1Program Management Office2Marketing and Communications1Supply Chain3Growth2Field Services4Strategy and Markets1Corporate Finance and Accounting1IT and Infrastructure1Corporate Office2General8
Roles are read from Epirus’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Epirus hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Epirus has the 113th most open roles of 2,950 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 39 open roles is 3.9× the average hiring startup (10.0).
- 56% of openings are in Engineering, then Other (23%).
- Most roles are mid level (28%). 1 role suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 200, these openings would grow headcount by up to 20%.
- Engineering pay here (median $155k) is 15% below the market median for Engineering ($183k).
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- 79% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 24%).
- 15% of postings mention equity.
- 17 postings say they don’t sponsor visas.
- 40 roles added in the last 30 days; 1 closed in the last 90.
- Its roles stay open for a median 4 months before closing (market: 43 days).
- A typical open listing here is 4 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
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
100%at 7 days100%at 30 days100%at 60 days100%at 90 days
Momentum, explained
- Epirus hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 40
- Roles added in 30 days
- 40
- Roles added in 90 days
- 40
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 1
- Median time a role stays open
- 4 months
- Market: 43 days
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #113
- of 2,950 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.20
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 39
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 3
- 8% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 6
- 15% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 4 months
- Oldest: 14 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $147k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $133k–$170k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 79%
- 31 of 39
- Mention equity
- 15%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- 17 say they don’t
- Graduate and intern roles
- 1
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
Breakdowns
40
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering2256%
- 2Other923%
- 3Marketing38%
- 4Customer13%
- 5Finance13%
- 6Legal13%
- 7Operations13%
- 8Product13%
- 1Mid level1128%
- 2Senior1026%
- 3Principal821%
- 4Manager615%
- 5Director25%
- 6Executive13%
- 7Graduate / entry13%
- 1Not stated39100%
- 1Torrance3795%
- 2Lawton13%
- 3Washington13%
- 1Not stated39100%
- 1Engineering1128%
- 2Field Services410%
- 3Supply Chain38%
- 4Corporate Office25%
- 5Growth25%
- 6Manufacturing25%
- 7Program Management Office25%
- 8Corporate Finance and Accounting13%
+4 more across 4 others
$77kLow$133k25th$147kMedian$170k75th$361kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Epirus role.