Three companies share the Talos name. One builds hiring software for 900 enterprises, Talos360's LinkedIn figures put the count at 900 enterprises, on fewer than 200 people — a ratio of one employee for every five Domino's or Stonegate Group locations, making every hire carry disproportionate weight. This guide covers that company, Talos360, and flags where two other Talos entities — Talos Network (digital-asset infrastructure) and Talos Energy (offshore energy), are hiring, so you apply to the right one. The main theme: who each Talos recruits, what compensation to expect, how their hiring processes screen candidates, where work is performed, and which personal traits lead to success.
Who Talos Hires
Talos360 (hiring software, UK-founded). Talos360, rebranded from 360recruitment in 2009, organizes its workforce into four core functions: software engineering, customer operations, sales and business development, and product. The UK headquarters in Warrington anchors the business, but the live job board shows a growing New York cluster — six of eleven current postings are based there, signaling a deliberate US push.
Customer Operations, insiders call "the beating heart," runs three distinct teams. Talos Software Support builds each client's ATS during deployment and handles post-launch tickets through the support portal. Talos Services owns the full deployment lifecycle — project administration, consultancy, training, system setup, from sales handoff to customer launch. Customer Success Managers then drive adoption, retention, and expansion. Jennifer Robinson, a CSM with 12 years at the company, describes the culture as "one big family" where "everyone's opinion matters, it doesn't matter what your role is or how long you've been working here." That tenure is not an outlier; the careers site highlights long-service employees across functions.
Sales and business development carry two flavors. A Strategic Account Manager role in New York lists $200k–$240k, Zero G Talent board reported, — the top of the board, reflecting enterprise quota expectations across the 800-plus client base. A Product & Business Development role focused on tokenized treasuries sits at $150k–$180k, blending technical fluency with pipeline generation. Both roles sell into HR and talent leaders who already know the ATS category; the pitch centers on AI-assisted screening, automated scheduling, and compliance workflows that reduce time-to-hire by measurable days — Stonegate Group cut 12 days in 17 weeks.
Product rounds out the quartet. An Associate Product Manager in New York at $160k–$190k owns feature discovery and delivery for the platform's expanding suite: ATS, onboarding microsites, performance management (G2 High Performer since 2023), and the emerging Tali AI agent. The role requires translating compliance shifts — the UK's Employment Rights Act 2025, 2027 unfair dismissal changes, into product roadmaps that keep clients legal without adding admin.
Across functions, the common thread is domain fluency. Engineers ship code that HR teams use daily. Support and services staff configure workflows for nurses, security guards, hospitality shift leads. Success managers speak the language of probation reviews and right-to-work checks. Sales reps demo to people who run the very processes Talos automates. The company hires people who have either built SaaS for HR or lived inside HR departments — preferably both.
Talos Network (digital-asset infrastructure, NYC-centered). The Zero G Talent board shows six salaried roles in New York: Software Engineer (Tokenization), Software Engineer (Generalist), Technical Solutions Engineer, Associate Product Manager, Strategic Account Manager, and Product & Business Development (Tokenized Treasuries). Base bands run $140k–$240k. These roles demand fluency in Rust/Go, tokenization standards (ERC-3643, ERC-1400), institutional custody workflows, and the mechanics of tokenized Treasury distribution. This is a separate company from Talos360; its product is trading and settlement infrastructure, not hiring software.
Talos Energy (offshore energy, Houston-headquartered). ** A public company (NYSE: TALO) with a distinct hiring profile — geoscientists, engineers, commercial analysts, not covered in detail here because its roles do not appear on the Zero G Talent or Talos360 boards. Equity data from its SEC filings appears in the compensation section only because the Long Term Incentive Plan shares the Talos name.
Compensation: What the Numbers Show
Talos Network (Zero G Talent board, New York). Six recent postings show base salary bands clustered between $140k and $240k.
| Role | Base Salary Band |
|---|---|
| Strategic Account Manager | $200k–$240k |
| Software Engineer (Tokenization) | $140k–$200k |
| Software Engineer (Generalist) | $140k–$200k |
| Associate Product Manager | $160k–$190k |
| Technical Solutions Engineer | $150k–$190k |
| Product & Business Development (Tokenized Treasuries) | $150k–$180k |
Across the 11 salaried roles currently tracked, the board's aggregate band spans $104k–$200k, Zero G Talent's data shows, with a median of $180k, Zero G Talent board found. Third-party aggregates broadly align: Levels.fyi reports a median total compensation of $150k for Software Engineers, with a range stretching to $225k for Business Operations; Indeed pegs the average U.S. Software Engineer package at roughly $176k, about 54 percent above the national average for the title. The spread reflects the New York cost base and the premium for engineers who can ship across the full stack of institutional trading infrastructure: matching engines, settlement rails, and the tokenization layer.
Equity (Talos Energy public filings). Restricted stock units are granted under the Amended and Restated Talos Energy Inc. 2021 Long Term Incentive Plan. SEC Form 4 filings for named executives show a standard three-year ratable vest: one-third on each anniversary (March 2027, 2028, 2029). Chief Financial Officer Zachary B. Dailey received 56,074 RSUs in the most recent grant, bringing his beneficial ownership to 85,124 shares; Chief Operating Officer John B. Spath received the same grant size, lifting his stake to 268,788 shares. A separate filing notes 171,339 RSUs vesting on the same schedule. The company does not publish a universal employee grant schedule; the executive pattern of equal annual tranches with no cliff is the only structured equity signal in the public record. This applies to Talos Energy, not Talos360 or Talos Network.
Remote/hybrid by entity. Talos360's careers page advertises "Remote, anywhere in Europe or the UK" alongside 36 days of paid leave (inclusive of national holidays) and a professional-development budget. Talos Network's New York roles on Zero G Talent are listed as New York-based without a remote qualifier. Talos Engineering (Sidero Labs, Richland, Washington) describes "flexible work schedules to promote work/life balance." Talos Energy emphasizes "flexible work hours" and competitive benefits but does not publish a remote-first policy. Candidates should confirm which entity a given requisition belongs to before assuming location flexibility.
Benefits. ** Beyond leave and development budget, Talos360 highlights tuition reimbursement, upskilling opportunities, and regular offsites, perks Builtin's employee feedback corroborates, though it notes formal training programs are light and learning is largely self-directed. Talos Energy adds standard health, retirement, and wellness benefits typical of a mid-cap public company. No public data breaks out bonus targets by role, but the gap between base bands and total-comp medians on Levels.fyi suggests variable cash (annual bonus plus RSU vest value) adds roughly 20–35 percent for engineering and commercial tracks at target performance.
Inside the Interview Loop
Publicly available interview accounts for Talos360 are sparse and dated. Glassdoor and Indeed reviews from early 2022 describe a process that moved quickly: one candidate reported hearing back within a week of applying, then completing two interviews (one with the hiring manager, one with a fellow engineer) before receiving an offer. Another reviewer who came through a staffing agency described the same two-interview structure and called the onboarding experience "good." No recent first-hand accounts (post-2022) appear on either site, and the Talos360 careers page does not publish a stage-by-stage breakdown.
For Talos Network, it reveals the shape of roles being filled today: software engineering (tokenization, core platform), product, technical solutions, and business development, all based in New York with bands ranging from $140k to $240k. That functional mix suggests a hiring funnel tuned for technical depth in distributed systems and blockchain-adjacent infrastructure, plus commercial roles that can translate that capability to institutional customers.
Candidates who reach the interview stage at Talos Network should expect scrutiny on two fronts. Technical and product interviews assess the tokenization standards, custody workflows, and tokenized Treasury distribution mechanics outlined above.
Common disqualifiers echo the posting language: lack of production Rust/Go in a financial-services context, no exposure to institutional custody or prime-brokerage workflows, and inability to articulate how a tokenized asset moves from issuance to secondary settlement. Candidates who treat the process as a generic tech interview, emphasizing algorithm puzzles over domain-specific architecture, tend to stall after the first technical round.
Because neither Talos360 nor Talos Network publishes an official interview guide, the most reliable signal comes from the job descriptions themselves.
Where the Work Gets Done
Talos360. The UK headquarters in Warrington remains the anchor. This signals a deliberate US push. The careers page offers the same remote flexibility and leave. No dedicated lab space or hardware test cells are mentioned in any Talos360 funding announcement, customer testimonial, or job posting; the work is SaaS deployment, configuration, and support.
Talos Network. The Zero G Talent board tells a clear story: every salaried role listed in the past cycle is tagged New York. Strategic Account Manager, Software Engineer (Tokenization), Software Engineer, Associate Product Manager, Technical Solutions Engineer, Product & Business Development, all six recent openings specify the same location. That concentration suggests a single primary hub rather than a distributed network. The salary band of $104k–$200k (median $180k) across 11 salaried roles implies a conventional office or hybrid setup in a major metro market. The roles (tokenization engineering, technical solutions, product, sales) align with a team that writes, ships, and supports code. If Talos Network operates any dedicated lab space (for example, a hardware compatibility lab for bare-metal validation), it does not appear in the funding announcements, customer testimonials, or job postings available as of October 2024.
Talos Linux (Sidero Labs): a different company. Sidero Labs, the company behind Talos Linux and Omni, was founded in 2019 by veterans of large-scale enterprise Kubernetes operations. Their product is software, an immutable OS purpose-built for Kubernetes and a management plane that spans bare metal, VMs, and cloud providers. The research contains no mention of hardware test cells, machine shops, or integration floors. Customers like Ubisoft, Roche, and Nokia run Talos on their own infrastructure; Ubisoft's spokesperson noted that three developers built their API on Omni and had an operational cluster running quickly, with no reference to Sidero-operated test hardware. The $4 million round led by Hiro Capital with Sony Innovation Fund participation (announced October 2024) was earmarked for product development and awareness scaling, not capital-intensive lab build-out. CEO Steve Francis described the investment as accelerating "product development and scale awareness to meet the growing demands of companies looking for intuitive and powerful tools to deploy and manage Kubernetes", language consistent with a software team hiring engineers, not a hardware outfit commissioning test stands. This entity shares the Talos name but is unrelated to Talos360 or Talos Network.
Who Lasts
The research record on Talos360's internal hiring data is thin. The company's own careers site and employee testimonials, the sources that would normally reveal which traits correlate with tenure and performance, are not represented in the available material beyond Jennifer Robinson's 12-year tenure and the highlighted long-service employees. From the roles themselves and the domain they operate in, a profile emerges by implication.
For Talos360, the open roles cluster in SaaS for HR: software engineering, customer operations (support, services, success), sales, and product. As previously described, the roles require domain fluency in HR processes, compliance, and workflow configuration.
For Talos Network, the roles signal a company building financial infrastructure on blockchain rails, a space where regulatory ambiguity, cryptographic rigor, and enterprise sales cycles collide. Engineers who last tend to be comfortable reading protocol specs, writing smart-contract-adjacent code, and reasoning about settlement finality without a safety net of established best practices. The tokenization-focused postings suggest experience with ERC-20/ERC-1400 standards, custody models, and the interplay between on-chain logic and off-chain compliance is a differentiator.
Technical solutions engineers sit at the intersection of product depth and customer deployment. The role demands fluency in API integration, key management workflows, and the ability to translate a financial institution's custody requirements into concrete implementation plans. Candidates who have shipped B2B fintech integrations, especially where the counterparty runs their own HSMs or MPC nodes, will recognize the pattern.
On the commercial side, the strategic account manager role ($200k–$240k) and the product & business development role for tokenized treasuries ($150k–$180k) point to a sales motion that is consultative, long-cycle, and heavily technical. The buyers are treasury teams, compliance officers, and CTOs at asset managers or banks. Success correlates with prior experience selling infrastructure to regulated financial institutions, not SaaS seat licenses. The ability to navigate a proof-of-concept that involves legal review, audit trails, and a six-month procurement process is the baseline.
The associate product manager band ($160k–$190k) is notably high for the title, suggesting the function carries real ownership: writing specs that engineers trust, coordinating with legal on jurisdictional constraints, and prioritizing a roadmap where a missed regulatory deadline is a product-blocking bug. APMs who have operated in crypto or capital-markets tech, where the cost of a wrong assumption is measured in regulatory risk, not just user churn, will find the environment familiar.
Across both Talos360 and Talos Network, the common thread is comfort with ambiguity that has legal consequences. Jennifer Robinson's 12 years at Talos360 reflect a culture where "everyone's opinion matters", a trait that survives when the product touches people's livelihoods daily. At Talos Network, the adversarial backdrop is explicit: the same institutions it courts are under active, sophisticated attack (Cisco Talos, a separate threat-intelligence group, tracks actors like UAT-9921 and frameworks like VoidLink targeting Linux infrastructure). Employees who internalize that reality, who treat key-rotation policies, audit-log completeness, and incident-response drills as product features rather than compliance checkboxes, are the ones who last.
No employee survey or internal retention study is cited for any Talos entity. The inference above is drawn from the role definitions, the domain, and the compensation signals. If any Talos publishes a "how we work" manifesto or shares cohort retention data, the picture will sharpen. For now, the roles themselves are the clearest map, provided you know which Talos you're reading.
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