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166 articlesCareers at Blue Origin: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Zero G Talent's live board shows eight senior-to-principal Blue Origin roles in custom silicon and flight software, detailing compensation, locations, hiring process, work environments, and candidate fit.
$529 Space Connector Exposes Labor Gap Behind 3,700 Launch Objects
U.S. space launch activity surged nearly tenfold in six years, but the supply chain suffers from skilled labor shortages, aging facilities, and limited testing capacity. Primes and suppliers compete for thin talent pools as bottlenecks shift to the factory floor.
$600M Project Horizon Spawns Blue Origin Civil Hire for Ghost Pads
Blue Origin posted a civil engineer role to scout and permit future launch sites ahead of its $600M Florida Project Horizon expansion, amid SpaceX competition on the Space Coast.
Blue Origin Plans 60 Rockets Yearly While New Glenn Stays Grounded
Blue Origin's hiring board and a leaked listing reveal a stealth plan to build 60 New Glenn rockets per year by Q3 2028, concentrating upper-stage assembly at Florida's Project Horizon despite a thin flight record.
Shield AI pays $490K, yet autonomy talent stays thin
Analysis of space and defense hiring trends showing Shield AI-Sedaro partnership, autonomy simulation stacks, 2026 specialist shortage, and exclusion of hardware/policy roles from talent pool.
$431K Top Blue Origin Pay Caps 752 Roles for Blue Ring Spacecraft
Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug passed a key milestone, secured Caracal sensor payload for 2026 maiden flight, and is hiring aggressively. The vehicle aims to provide maneuverable space logistics for national security against incumbents.
One of four Cape launchers listed zero ground jobs
Four private space companies—SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and Relativity Space—are simultaneously building launch pads at Cape Canaveral, reshaping the coastline and straining local labor pools amid regulatory and range upgrades.
1,000 Tons of Propellant Exploded—Blue Origin's Hybrid Pad Pivot
Blue Origin commits $600M to Project Horizon, a 830k-sq-ft Merritt Island factory, after a May 2026 LC-36 explosion forces hybrid New Glenn integration. FAA clearance, hiring, and local suppliers shape Florida's Space Coast expansion.
Three Flights in 15 Months. Hiring for 12 a Year. Zero Reused Engines.
Blue Origin is hiring aggressively at two sites: Merritt Island for New Glenn avionics production and Kent for BE-4/BE-7 propulsion supporting both New Glenn and the Blue Moon lunar lander. The split reveals a dual-vehicle workforce strategy with distinct clocks — commercial launch cadence vs. NASA
Blue Origin Builds $600M Factory to Turn 3 Flights Into 60 a Year
Blue Origin announces a $600 million upper-stage factory (Project Horizon) at Cape Canaveral to produce 60 New Glenn upper stages annually by 2028, addressing a critical production bottleneck to meet Kuiper and NSSL launch contracts.
New Glenn Blast Grounds Orbital Reef's Only Launch Path
Sierra Space and NASA restructured their CRS-2 contract, reducing Dream Chaser ISS cargo flights to a single 2026 demo. The company appointed a new CFO and government relations chief, signaling a strategic pivot from spaceplane development to Orbital Reef commercial station operations and defense wo
SpaceX Staffs First Mass-Production Rocket Factory: 288 Roles in Bastrop, Texas
SpaceX is aggressively hiring at Starbase and Bastrop to build Starship's first mass-production workforce, adding construction, test, supply chain, and automation roles across Texas facilities.
Space Force Reversed a $1.4B Single Award. The Fix Is a Cloud Marketplace.
The U.S. Space Force is shifting from government-owned ground stations to a commercial cloud-based marketplace, creating a surge in demand for engineers who combine RF expertise, DevOps skills, and orbital mechanics knowledge. Hiring is concentrated in Colorado Springs, backed by billions in new con
BE-7 Engine Shatters 38-Year Hotfire Record; Blue Origin Staffs Van Horn for Flight Test
Blue Origin is hiring BE-7 test engineers at its Van Horn, Texas site, part of a 151-role surge signaling a shift from component validation to integrated flight-test operations for the Artemis lunar lander program. The BE-7 engine recently set a 2,500-second hotfire record.
Anduril Built a 5-Million-Square-Foot Drone Factory With No Permanent Robots — and It's Hiring 4,000 People to Prove the Model Works
Anduril Industries' $20 billion Army contract marks its transition from software startup to full-scale defense manufacturer. The deal covers Lattice software, hardware, and compute infrastructure. Arsenal-1, a 5-million-square-foot Ohio facility, will begin drone production in July 2026 with 4,000 w
Blue Origin's Flagship Rocket Just Exploded. The Company's Fastest-Growing Program Has Nothing to Do With Rockets.
Blue Origin is developing Blue Ring, a maneuverable orbital platform designed to host multiple payloads, provide on-orbit refueling, and operate across medium Earth orbit through cislunar space. The spacecraft uses a hybrid solar electric-chemical propulsion system to optimize for diverse mission sc
Blue Origin Is Hiring 147 People a Week. SpaceX Just Bought 300.
In June 2026, SpaceX acquired Cursor parent Anysphere in a $60 billion all-stock deal, the largest defense-tech M&A transaction in history. The article explores the unusual call-option structure, Cursor's explosive revenue growth from $1B to $4B ARR, its agentic-coding platform, and the strategic ve
NASA chose a company that's never reached orbit to run its next Mars mission — then hired 26 people to do it.
Relativity Space went from near-bankruptcy to winning a NASA Mars orbiter mission after Eric Schmidt's $800M investment. The company's 3D-printed Terran R rocket and integrated mission delivery model beat established primes like Lockheed Martin. With Terran R yet to fly and a tight 2028 launch windo
SpaceX minted millionaires from New Glenn's old hires. Blue Origin's fix landed a booster — and still can't promise a payday.
Blue Origin's New Glenn first stage successfully landed on November 13, 2025, marking a pivotal milestone after the NG-1 failure. The recovery clears a key U.S. Space Force certification threshold, shifts New Glenn into operational reuse, and triggers a nine-mile factory loop workforce model on Flor
Blue Origin is paying SpaceX rates to build satellites that don't need ground stations
On January 21, 2026, Blue Origin announced TeraWave, a multi-orbit satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. The company pitched it as a high-capacity backbone for enterprise, data center, and government users, a market segment th
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