Focal Systems
Focal Systems’ platform helps retailers cut shelf scanning cost in half by switching from manual to automated shelf scans. The solution is based on low cost, discrete shelf cameras, a sophisticated computer vision model and a cloud-based machine learning platform that is tuned for complex retail environments. By providing automated, real-time insight into on-shelf product availability, retailers c
Series BBurlingame, California200 people
4 of 45 roles
All teams45Field Operations35Operations1Supply Chain1Customer Support and Analytics2Product1Engineering4Customer Success1
Roles are read from Focal Systems’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Focal Systems hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Focal Systems has the 80th most open roles of 2,630 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 45 open roles is 3.2× the average Series B startup here (13.9).
- 80% of openings are in Operations, then Engineering (9%).
- Most roles are mid level (91%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 200, these openings would grow headcount by up to 23%.
- Median posted pay of $45k is 75% below the Series B startup median ($180k).
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- Operations pay here (median $45k) is 64% below the market median for Operations ($125k).
- 100% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 13% of its roles are fully remote (market: 22%).
- 22% of postings mention equity.
- 45 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 43 days 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)
Momentum, explained
- Focal Systems hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 45
- Roles added in 30 days
- 45
- Roles added in 90 days
- 45
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #80
- of 2,630 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.23
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 45
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 3
- 7% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 18
- 40% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 43 days
- Oldest: 5 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $45k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $45k–$53k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 100%
- 45 of 45
- Mention equity
- 22%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 13%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
Breakdowns
45
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Operations3680%
- 2Engineering49%
- 3Customer12%
- 4Data12%
- 5Other12%
- 6Product12%
- 7Science12%
- 1Mid level4191%
- 2Director24%
- 3Manager12%
- 4Senior12%
- 1Not stated3987%
- 2Remote613%
- 1Birmingham Region511%
- 2London Region49%
- 3Poland49%
- 4Bristol Region24%
- 5Edinburgh Region24%
- 6Liverpool Region24%
- 7Midlands Region24%
- 8Newcastle upon Tyne Region24%
+17 more across 15 others
- 1Not stated45100%
- 1Field Operations3578%
- 2Engineering49%
- 3Customer Support and Analytics24%
- 4Customer Success12%
- 5Operations12%
- 6Product12%
- 7Supply Chain12%
$45kLow$45k25th$45kMedian$53k75th$174kHigh
$45kLow$128k25th$180kMedian$230k75th$230kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Focal Systems role.