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aerospace engineering

In June 2026, Apex Space Will Fire Two Interceptors From Orbit Using a Satellite Bus It Designed Months Earlier. The Five People It Hired This Week Have to Prove It Works.

Apex Space raised $200M in a Series D round led by Interlagos, pushing its valuation above $1 billion just three years after founding. The funding will accelerate spacecraft production, expand facilities, and support Project Shadow, America's first commercially-led space-based interceptor test sched

6/21/2026, 11:24 PM PDTBy Andrew Chang
defense

Thales added 8,800 people last year and still wasn't done. Now it wants 9,000 more — and the roles reveal what Europe is building

Thales plans to hire over 9,000 people globally in 2026, accelerating its annual recruitment amid surging defence demand. The push spans engineering, industrial, and corporate roles across 11 countries, with France absorbing the largest share. A new Renault-Thales drone pact targets 1,000 loitering

6/21/2026, 2:19 PM PDTBy John Hugo
aerospace engineering

The Aerospace Corporation added 35 roles in seven days — and almost none of them mention DiskSat

On December 18, 2025, Rocket Lab launched four flat, round DiskSats from Virginia, marking the first orbital demonstration of a new satellite form factor backed by NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and The Aerospace Corporation. DiskSat replaces the traditional CubeSat box with a thin disk, offering more

6/20/2026, 9:28 AM PDTBy Andrew Chang
defense

Anduril's factories can retool in days. The reason is a software stack it built from scratch — and is still hiring to finish.

ArsenalOS is Anduril Industries' proprietary digital-manufacturing platform designed to unify engineering design and factory-floor execution. It powers major facilities like Arsenal-1 in Ohio and Quonset Point in Rhode Island, enabling scalable production of autonomous systems through software-defin

6/20/2026, 6:30 AM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
defense

The U.S. Navy burned 150 SM-6s in the Middle East. Northrop Grumman plans to build 25,000 rocket motors a year. The math only works if 1,200 people show up in Box Elder County.

Northrop Grumman says it can nearly double solid-rocket motor production to 25,000 annually by 2029, backed by over $1 billion in capacity investment and 10 million square feet of manufacturing space. But a surge in hiring across propulsion engineering, supply chain, and production roles reveals tha

6/19/2026, 6:22 PM PDTBy Priya Nair
defense

The Navy Needs SPY-6 Radars on 50 Ships. Raytheon Has Them on 12 — and Its Rhode Island Factory Is Where the Catch-Up Happens.

Raytheon's $515M SPY-6 radar contract and $100M facility expansion in Rhode Island are driving a major hiring surge across engineering and technical disciplines, with hundreds of open roles in radar systems, naval integration, and manufacturing.

6/17/2026, 10:31 PM PDTBy John Hugo
aerospace engineering

Hermeus Hit Mach 1.21 in Under Three Months. The 5 Jobs It Just Posted Reveal What Comes Next.

Hermeus's Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 hit Mach 1.21 on its third test flight, becoming the world's first privately developed unmanned supersonic jet. The milestone triggered a shift from prototyping to manufacturing, with new production and airworthiness roles opening across Los Angeles, Atlanta, Jacksonvil

6/16/2026, 10:27 PM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
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
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
manufacturing

Space Manufacturing Jobs: High-Pay Tech Roles Hiring Now

Blue Origin is spending $600 million on Project Horizon, an 830,000-square-foot upper stage factory at its Rocket Park campus in Cape Canaveral, Florida,…

6/11/2026, 5:18 AM PDTBy Andrew Chang
propulsion

Impulse Space just raised $500 million to hire 200 people — not build AI

Impulse Space announced a $500 million Series D on June 2, 2026, co-led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, with participation from Founders Fund, Lux Capital,…

6/10/2026, 10:33 PM PDTBy Andrew Chang
careers

67,353 Security Clearance Jobs Are Hiring Now — and None Are on LinkedIn

ClearanceJobs lists 67,353 active security clearance jobs from 1,781 pre-screened hiring companies as of June 2026 — and virtually none of them appear on…

6/10/2026, 5:56 PM PDTBy Andrew Chang
manufacturing

1,017 Blue Origin jobs across 3 states go unnoticed by non-aerospace engineers

On May 22, 2026, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stood at Cape Canaveral Spaceport and announced a $600 million bet on the future of American rocketry. Blue…

6/10/2026, 2:03 PM PDTBy Rachel Kim
careers

Leidos' $2.7 Billion Army Contract Shifts Hypersonics to Full-Rate Production

Leidos secured a $2.7 billion U.S. Army contract to move hypersonic weapons into full-rate production, unifying the TPS and CHGB programs. Combined with the Pentagon's LCCM program and Castelion's new hypersonic factory, the defense industry faces a growing demand for production-scale engineering ta

6/10/2026, 11:53 AM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
careers

Defense Tech Cleared Jobs Spike as Golden Dome Demands Hybrid AI-Space Talent

The Pentagon's $175 billion Golden Dome program is creating unprecedented demand for hybrid-cleared technologists with expertise in space systems, AI, and integrated defense architecture. This article explores how the initiative is transforming hiring in Virginia, driving salary premiums, and creati

6/10/2026, 8:04 AM PDTBy Rachel Kim
careers

One in Four Senior Backend Engineers Now Eyeing Defense-Tech Roles

Defense-tech startups like Anduril and Palantir are pulling mid-career engineers from Big Tech with faster promotions, security-clearance career moats, mission-driven work, and competitive compensation. With U.S. defense-tech funding nearly tripling to $14.2B in 2025 and the Pentagon's $1.01T FY2026

6/10/2026, 6:17 AM PDTBy Priya Nair
careers

Space Industry's $46B Boom Hits a Wall: Nobody Can Find the Workers

The space sector is creating thousands of new roles—orbital servicing technicians, in-space manufacturing specialists, lunar logistics planners—yet still recruits from the same narrow talent pools. Judith Delany's SpaceWatchGL opinion piece argues the industry's conservative hiring practices are bli

6/10/2026, 3:42 AM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
aerospace engineering

Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D, Valuing Propulsion Startup at $4.26 Billion

Impulse Space announced a $500 million Series D round, pushing total capital past $1 billion and valuing the company at $4.26 billion. In a sector chasing AI-first development, Impulse is scaling human engineering headcount fast — betting that hardware built for space still demands human judgment.

6/10/2026, 2:43 AM PDTBy Priya Nair
salary guides

Aerospace Engineer Pay Ranges From $75K at Early-Stage Startups to $250K With TS/SCI Clearance

Aerospace engineer compensation in 2026 varies dramatically by company stage, clearance status, specialization, and geography. This guide breaks down real salary data across government, defense primes, and startups — from $75K at early-stage ventures to $250K+ for cleared senior engineers — so candi

6/10/2026, 1:43 AM PDTBy Marcus Bennett
careers

Defense tech startups outbid FAANG for elite AI engineers with mission, equity, clearances

While AI labs and hedge funds grab headlines with multimillion-dollar packages, defense tech startups are outbidding, out-missioning, and out-equiting FAANG for elite AI engineers — and reshaping the talent landscape in the process.

6/10/2026, 12:57 AM PDTBy Elena Petrova
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