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aerospace engineering

Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales Are Merging Their Space Divisions Into a €6.5B Giant With 25,000 Workers

Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to merge their space businesses into a single entity, creating one of the world's largest space companies. Expected to be operational in 2027, the joint venture will employ 25,000 people, generate €6.5 billion in annual revenue,

6/18/2026, 7:32 PM PDTBy Marcus Bennett
defense

Arsenal-1 Will Produce AI-Piloted Drones, Interceptor Missiles, and Cruise Missiles on the Same Production Line — a Model the Pentagon Is Betting $1 Billion On

Anduril Industries will build Arsenal-1, a five-million-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Pickaway County, Ohio, creating over 4,000 direct jobs by 2035. The $900M+ project will produce autonomous defense systems including the YFQ-44A Fury collaborative combat aircraft, Roadrunner inter

6/18/2026, 2:14 AM PDTBy Elena Petrova
defense

The Air Force Just Gave Anduril a Production Contract. The Engineers It Needs in Colorado Must Master Sensor Fusion, Python, and Field-Tested Autonomy — All at Once.

The U.S. Air Force awarded production contracts to Anduril Industries and General Atomics for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, marking the first time since the 1970s a new company has won a fighter aircraft program. The decision covers at least 150 CCA airframes across three production lot

6/17/2026, 8:17 PM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
defense

The Best-Paid Engineers in Defense Tech Never Touch a Weapon

General Motors and Lockheed Martin's 2026 collaboration is creating a new category of defense-manufacturing jobs that require fluency in both automotive EV systems and military platforms. Fort Worth emerges as the epicenter, with 32 open GM Defense positions and a newly ratified union contract signa

6/17/2026, 4:20 PM PDTBy David Yu
defense

Anduril's $20 Billion Pentagon Contract Needs 2,000 People. The Ones Building the Factory in Rhode Island Start at $143,000.

Anduril Industries closed a $5 billion Series H round in May 2026, doubling its valuation to $61 billion. The capital will fund Arsenal-1, a high-volume production facility in Ohio, as the company scales manufacturing of autonomous defense systems and pursues aggressive hiring across the U.S.

6/17/2026, 3:22 PM PDTBy James Okafor
aerospace engineering

The Aerospace Corporation Pays Up to $278,260 for RF Payload Analysts — and Competes Directly with SpaceX and Anduril for the Same Engineers

The Aerospace Corporation, the federally funded research and development center devoted to the U.S. space enterprise, is now competing directly with SpaceX, Anduril, and Boeing for RF payload analysts and other specialized engineers. As demand for space and defense talent surges, the FFRDC's expansi

6/16/2026, 4:21 PM PDTBy Daniel Reyes
aerospace engineering

SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60 Billion. The Three New Job Postings in Hawthorne Reveal What Musk Actually Plans to Do With It.

SpaceX's $60B acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor marks the opening act of a vertically integrated AI-factory strategy, not a simple tool purchase. The deal gives SpaceX distribution to millions of expert engineers, proprietary codebase integration, and a product retrainable on aerospace data. C

6/16/2026, 12:25 PM PDTBy Priya Nair
defense

The U.S. Gave Anduril $363 Million for Border Towers It Didn't Announce for Six Months. Anduril Already Delivered 40. The Supply-Chain Hiring Surge That Made It Possible Is Still Accelerating.

Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.18 million-square-foot campus in Long Beach and Lakewood, California, set to open mid-2027 with 5,500 direct employees. The article also reveals a quiet supply-chain hiring surge at its Costa Mesa headquarters, where roles like Director of Supply Cha

6/16/2026, 9:34 AM PDTBy James Okafor
defense

Anduril's Sydney Submarine Factory Broke Ground Before the Contract Existed — and the First Ghost Shark Is Already in the Water

Anduril opened a 7,400-square-meter submarine factory in Sydney in October 2025, seven weeks after winning a A$1.7 billion contract to deliver Ghost Shark autonomous underwater vehicles. The first production unit rolled off the line ahead of schedule, already undergoing in-water testing ahead of pla

6/16/2026, 12:31 AM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
aerospace engineering

SpaceX added 110 roles in seven days — and the ones that matter most are for engineers who can design circuit boards that fly.

SpaceX's Hawthorne campus is in the middle of a sustained hiring push for Starship avionics and electrical engineering talent. At least two active LinkedIn listings for Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics) are live right now, with 115 applicants already on one posting. Indeed lists 10 open SpaceX

6/15/2026, 10:19 PM PDTBy James Okafor
defense

Anduril Closed a $5 Billion Round at a $61 Billion Valuation — and Now It Needs 260 People a Week to Keep Up With a Contract the Government Didn't Announce for Six Months

In December 2025, CBP awarded Anduril Industries a $363 million contract for over 200 Extended Range Sentry Towers. By the time DHS disclosed the award in June 2026, Anduril had already delivered more than 40 units and was producing at over 15 systems per month. The deal is reshaping Anduril's Quons

6/15/2026, 4:16 PM PDTBy Priya Nair
defense

A factory campus that hasn't broken ground yet is hiring 5,500 people. The engineers who can write motion-planning algorithms in Rust and solder micro-electronics on a night shift are the reason.

Anduril Industries closed a $5 billion Series H round at a $61 billion valuation, the largest private funding round in defense technology history. The company plans to invest aggressively in manufacturing, research, and infrastructure, including the Arsenal-1 factory campus in Long Beach, California

6/15/2026, 11:25 AM PDTBy Elena Petrova
defense

A NAVWAR Analyst at Kirtland AFB Makes Up to $120,000 and Needs Python, RF Analysis, and a Clearance. Commercial Defense-Tech Roles Want the Exact Same Profile.

The U.S. Space Force is doubling in size, outpacing recruiting targets while civilian workforce cuts create a hidden tension. NAVWAR — navigation warfare over GPS and PNT data — is driving much of the hiring demand, with Kirtland AFB and Buckley SFB emerging as key talent hubs.

6/14/2026, 10:20 PM PDTBy David Yu
defense

Thales plans to hire 9,000 people in 2026 — and Mistral AI, SpaceX, and Anduril are chasing the same 3,600 engineers.

Thales Group plans to recruit more than 9,000 employees worldwide in 2026, with 40% in engineering roles. France leads with 3,300 hires, driven by major programs including Sentinel-1 Next Generation and SkyDefender.

6/14/2026, 5:10 PM PDTBy Marcus Bennett
software engineering

Anduril posted 221 jobs in a single week — and the engineers who can clear both a CI/CD pipeline and a classified network earn up to $1 million.

Anduril Industries added 221 roles to Zero G Talent's job board in the past seven days. The range tells its own story:

6/11/2026, 2:05 PM PDTBy Rachel Kim
salary guides

Anduril hardware engineers earn up to $272,000 — $90,000 more than Boeing's median — and the gap is forcing legacy primes to rewrite their pay scales.

A Hardware Engineer in embedded systems at Anduril's Costa Mesa, California office reported total compensation of $272,000 on August 1, 2025, according to…

6/11/2026, 10:44 AM PDTBy Daniel Reyes
careers

Cleared Defense Test Engineers Get 3 Recruiter Calls a Week

A cleared hardware test engineer working in defense tech can expect three recruiter calls a week. Not three per month. Per week. That frequency — reported…

6/10/2026, 5:27 PM PDTBy Rachel Kim
robotics

Standard Bots' $200M Unicorn Round Signals the AI-Native Industrial Robotics Manufacturing Boom — and the Hiring to Match

On June 9, 2026, Standard Bots closed a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, crossing the unicorn threshold with a round led by RoboStrategy…

6/10/2026, 4:01 PM PDTBy Andrew Chang
careers

Defense-Tech Startups Post 50% More Open Roles Than Software Peers

Defense-tech startups like Anduril are building internal recruiting infrastructure at a scale that mirrors Big Tech, driven by a capital explosion that nearly tripled U.S. equity funding to $14.2B in 2025. From 100-person recruiting teams to AI-powered drone racing competitions, the sector is transf

6/10/2026, 12:57 PM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
careers

Anduril's Long Beach campus to add 5,500 jobs near naval and aerospace suppliers

Anduril Industries has launched Arsenal-1, a 500-acre autonomous weapons factory in Ohio, four months ahead of schedule, and broken ground on a $1 billion campus in Long Beach, California. The twin hubs represent a strategic shift in defense-tech hiring, embedding manufacturing and R&D near military

6/10/2026, 12:26 PM PDTBy John Hugo

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