Lightship
Lightship is an all-electric RV manufacturer, designer, and producer of an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer for the electric age. Lightship is an early-stage hardware startup launched in 2020 by Tesla alumni that is bringing the $26B RV industry into the electric age. Based in San Francisco and Broomfield, Colorado, Lightship is designing and producing an aerodynamic, battery-powered trailer t
11 open roles
Roles are read from Lightship’s Lever every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Lightship hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Lightship has the 614th most open roles of 2,328 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 11 open roles is 0.9× the average hiring startup (11.6).
- 45% of openings are in Engineering, then Finance (18%).
- Most roles are mid level (45%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 200, these openings would grow headcount by up to 6%.
- 0% of its roles post pay, against 39% across all listed startups.
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- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 21%).
- 36% of postings mention equity.
- 11 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 28 days old, against 58 days across the site.
- Founded 6 years ago.
Hiring momentum
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
Momentum, explained
- Lightship hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 11
- Roles added in 30 days
- 11
- Roles added in 90 days
- 11
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #614
- of 2,328 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.06
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 11
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 7
- 64% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 28 days
- Oldest: 43 months
Pay
- Roles that post pay
- 0%
- 0 of 11
- Mention equity
- 36%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 7 yrs
Breakdowns
- 1Engineering545%
- 2Finance218%
- 3Marketing218%
- 4Operations19%
- 5Other19%
- 1Mid level545%
- 2Executive436%
- 3Senior19%
- 4Staff19%
- 1Onsite982%
- 2Hybrid218%
- 1Broomfield873%
- 2South San Francisco327%
- 1Full-time1091%
- 2Not stated19%
- 1Finance218%
- 2Operations218%
- 3Sales & Marketing218%
- 4Software & Controls218%
- 5General Applications (No Specific Role)19%
- 6Power Systems Engineering19%
- 7Test Engineering19%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Lightship role.