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336 articles€6.5B SpaceX Rival Forms as Thales Alenia Space Hires Across Americas
Thales Alenia Space has launched a major recruitment drive after new contracts, with 221 roles added in a week. The article details hiring tracks, clearance requirements, and tips to pass its Workday screening filter.
SpaceX site says 'No jobs match' for Bastrop while LinkedIn lists 400
SpaceX is building its Bastrop, Texas campus into North America's largest semiconductor research and advanced packaging site with a $280M investment and state grant, adding jobs yet straining local infrastructure.
$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.
Raptor 3’s 280 Tonnes Sit on One Desk—But a 'Monastery' Stalls Hire
SpaceX is hiring propulsion engineers at Starbase to develop and own the third-generation Raptor engine. The postings define system ownership from design to flight, salary bands, and highlight Texas labor constraints.
Starlink's 9,518 Satellites Dwarf Amazon's 264 in Kuiper Race
Amazon's Kirkland factory builds Project Kuiper satellites using retrained warehouse workers, racing an FCC deadline while Starlink leads. Local colleges support the model, which stops at rocket launch.
$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.
Italy Shopped SpaceX Before Its Own Champions Could Merge
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales signed a memorandum of understanding to pool their satellite and space systems businesses into a joint venture, consolidating Europe's fragmented military space sector to better compete with SpaceX and Chinese aerospace powers. The JV aims for a 2027 launch, pending regu
The Factory That Screws Together Satellites Now Hires Its Own Hackers
SpaceX is hiring product security engineers for its Starlink manufacturing plant in Bastrop County, Texas, aligning factory-floor cybersecurity with federal zero-trust mandates and state expansion incentives.
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.
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.
SpaceX Offers $220K–$350K for Classified AI Engineers in DC
SpaceX's Starshield division is recruiting Top Secret-cleared software engineers in Washington DC for classified payloads, offering $220K–$350K. The roles support the National Reconnaissance Office under a $1.8B contract, highlighting the division's focus on secure government communications and Eart
2026 delay forces Rocket Lab to prioritize ground testing
Rocket Lab postpones its Neutron launch to 2026, emphasizing extensive ground testing to validate reusable booster durability and reduce launch risks.
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.
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.
Only the Second Part 450 Licensee Is Staffing a Production Line Before First Orbit
Inversion Space's Arc reusable reentry capsule aims to return cargo from orbit within an hour. The company is validating thermal protection with NASA, hiring for rate production targeting a 2026 orbital demo, while the Pentagon's Golden Dome program drives a defense talent surge that overlaps with c
Starlink Built a 700,000-Square-Foot Factory in Rural Texas to Serve 2.8 Billion Users Globally
Starlink's profitability drives global hiring surge for satellite production, ground infrastructure, and operations roles. New positions in Bastrop and Redmond support Direct-to-cell technology expansion.
Starlink Hits 10 Million Users as SpaceX Adds 90 Gateway Jobs
SpaceX's Starlink is expanding its ground infrastructure sourcing team in Redmond and scaling up operations in Bastrop to support rapid subscriber growth and global gateway deployment.
Robots Manage Starshield, Yet 91 Human Jobs Appear
SpaceX wins a $2.29B Space Force contract to develop Starshield, a satellite communications backbone using AI and autonomous operations for secure military data relay.
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
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