Cleared Hiring Signals

Cleared Hiring Signals is an Apify Actor that watches public defense-tech career boards and returns only the jobs that explicitly require a security clearance. Run it on a schedule with delta mode on, and you get a daily feed of new and changed cleared roles instead of the same postings every morning.

Free Apify plans get up to 10 records per run with every feature turned on. Paid Apify plans get the full requested result set, up to 1,000 records.

What it does

• Reads the public Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby job board APIs for each company. No login, no browser, no proxy.
• Checks each job's title and description for clearance language (clearance, TS/SCI, top secret, public trust).
• Keeps jobs where that language is a requirement (for example "required", "must", "currently hold").
• Optionally keeps jobs that ask for the ability or eligibility to obtain a clearance.
• In delta mode, remembers what it saw last run and returns only jobs that are new or changed.

Who it is for

• Recruiters and staffing firms who place cleared candidates and want to know which defense-tech companies opened cleared roles this week.
• Sales and business development teams selling to defense-tech companies, using cleared hiring as a growth signal.
• Analysts tracking hiring at defense-tech startups.

Default company roster

If you leave companies empty, the Actor checks this preset:

Company	Board
Palantir	Lever
Scale AI	Greenhouse
Helsing	Greenhouse
Chaos Industries	Greenhouse
Epirus	Greenhouse
Vannevar Labs	Greenhouse
HawkEye 360	Greenhouse
Vatn Systems	Greenhouse
Saronic	Ashby

You can replace it with your own list of Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby boards.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
companies	array	preset above	Boards to check. Each entry is { "ats": "greenhouse", "slug": "epirus", "name": "Epirus" }. ats is greenhouse, lever or ashby.
maxResults	integer	100	Most records to return, up to 1,000. Free plans get up to 10.
deltaMode	boolean	true	Return only jobs that are new or changed since the last run.
includeAbleToObtain	boolean	false	Also return jobs that ask for the ability to obtain a clearance.

Example:

{
    "companies": [
        { "ats": "greenhouse", "slug": "epirus", "name": "Epirus" },
        { "ats": "ashby", "slug": "saronic", "name": "Saronic" }
    ],
    "maxResults": 200,
    "deltaMode": true,
    "includeAbleToObtain": false
}

The slug is the last part of the company's careers URL: boards.greenhouse.io/epirus, jobs.lever.co/palantir, jobs.ashbyhq.com/saronic.

Output

One record per job:

Field	Notes
id	ats:slug:jobId, stable across runs
ats	greenhouse, lever or ashby
company	{ slug, name }
title	Job title
locations	List of locations from the board
department	Department or team, when the board gives one
posted_at	Board timestamp (Greenhouse gives its last-updated time)
url	Link to the posting
clearance_tier	hard (clearance required) or able_to_obtain
delta_status	new, updated or unchanged
scraped_at	When this run read the job

Each run also writes a RUN_SUMMARY record to the key-value store with companies checked, records delivered, per-company failures, how many unchanged jobs delta mode skipped, and whether the free-plan cap applied.

How delta mode works

The Actor saves a fingerprint of each matching job (title, description and timestamp) in a named key-value store, cleared-hiring-signals-delta-state, so it survives between runs, including scheduled ones. On the next run it compares, skips jobs that have not changed, and marks the rest new or updated. Each saved Task keeps its own history, so use one Task per company list.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.004 per cleared job record delivered, plus Apify's $0.00005 actor start. Jobs skipped by delta mode and jobs that do not match the clearance filter are not delivered and not charged. Use maxResults or a maximum run cost to cap spend.

Limits

• The clearance check reads text. It finds jobs that say a clearance is required; it does not know about clearance needs that a posting does not mention.
• Only Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards are supported. Workday and other systems are not.
• If one company's board fails, the others still run, and the failure is listed in RUN_SUMMARY.

Use it from the API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent

Run it from the Apify API or the apify-client package for Python or JavaScript, connect it with Apify's Make, Zapier or n8n integrations, or call shipsatnight/cleared-hiring-signals from an AI agent through the Apify MCP server at mcp.apify.com.

FAQ

Which jobs count as cleared? Jobs whose title or description mentions a clearance, TS/SCI, top secret or public trust, together with requirement words like "required" or "must". Turn on includeAbleToObtain to add jobs that ask for the ability to obtain one.

Can I add my own companies? Yes. Pass any Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby boards in companies. That replaces the preset.

How do I get only new cleared jobs each day? Keep deltaMode on and run the Actor on an Apify Schedule.

Does it scrape ClearanceJobs or LinkedIn? No. It reads employers' own public job boards.

Related actors

• Security Hiring Signals: cybersecurity and AppSec roles on any Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby board.
• Multi-ATS Job Scraper: every job from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and SmartRecruiters in one schema.