XBOW
XBOW is the autonomous offensive security company redefining cyber defense for the AI era. Combining AI reasoning with offensive security workflows, the XBOW platform delivers expert-level security testing at machine speed. XBOW empowers security teams to transform from reactive to proactive defense at AI scale. For XBOW customers, autonomous offense is the best defense.
GrowthSeattle, Washington297 people
2 of 3 roles
Roles are read from XBOW’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
XBOW hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- XBOW has the 1698th most open roles of 2,832 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 3 open roles is 0.2× the average Growth startup here (16.8).
- 67% of openings are in Engineering, then Legal (33%).
- Most roles are mid level (67%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 297, these openings would grow headcount by up to 1%.
- Median posted pay of $225k is 22% above the Growth startup median ($185k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $225k) is 23% above the market median for Engineering ($183k).
- 67% of its roles post pay, against 43% across all listed startups.
- 67% of its roles are fully remote (market: 22%).
- 67% of postings mention equity.
- 3 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 20 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
- XBOW hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 3
- Roles added in 30 days
- 3
- Roles added in 90 days
- 3
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #1,698
- of 2,832 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.01
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 3
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 2
- 67% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 20 days
- Oldest: 35 days
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $225k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $225k–$225k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 67%
- 2 of 3
- Mention equity
- 67%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 67%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 8 yrs
Breakdowns
3
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering267%
- 2Legal133%
- 1Mid level267%
- 2Manager133%
- 1Remote267%
- 2Not stated133%
- 1Austria (Remote)133%
- 2Europe (Remote)133%
- 3United Kingdom (Remote)133%
- 1Full-time3100%
- 1Engineering267%
- 2Legal133%
$100kLow$225k25th$225kMedian$225k75th$350kHigh
$140kLow$140k25th$185kMedian$225k75th$225kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every XBOW role.