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336 articlesSpaceX raised $25 billion 11 days after its IPO — and now it needs engineers who can build Raptors by the dozen
SpaceX raised $25 billion in its debut corporate bond sale on June 23, 2026, just 11 days after its IPO, drawing nearly $90 billion in investor orders. The five-tranche senior unsecured notes carry maturities from 2031 to 2056 with yields from 5.35% to 6.65%. The proceeds refinance a $20 billion bri
SpaceX added 119 roles last week. Rocket Lab added 31. Both are fishing the same talent pool — and a 16-hour launch is the reason why.
On June 19, 2026, Rocket Lab's Electron rocket launched the U.S. Space Force's VICTUS HAZE mission just 16 hours and 42 minutes after a formal Notice to Launch, shattering the previous TacRS record by over 10 hours. The mission marked the first time a single prime contractor delivered a complete res
Anduril's Long Beach Campus Will Employ 5,500 to Build Weapons That Never Existed 26 Months Ago
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.18-million-square-foot campus in Long Beach and Lakewood, California, set to open by mid-2027 and employ roughly 5,500 people. The facility at Douglas Park will split office and industrial space to support mass production of autonomous weapons system
SpaceX's $25 billion bond deal is quietly creating a new job class that Wall Street and rocket factories both want
SpaceX raised $25 billion in its first public bond sale just eleven days after completing the largest IPO in American history. With over $100 billion in cash already on its balance sheet, the borrowing wasn't about survival — it was a strategic move to scale without diluting equity, lock in long-ter
SpaceX's job board at its $280M Bastrop site lists roles no Starlink factory would ever need
SpaceX is investing over $280 million to expand its Bastrop, Texas facility into the largest semiconductor R&D and advanced packaging site in North America. The project, supported by $17.3 million from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund, will add one million square feet and create more than 400
SpaceX Has $100.8 Billion in Cash. It's Borrowing $20 Billion More.
SpaceX launched its first bond offering on June 22, 2026, just 10 days after its record $85.7 billion IPO, targeting $20 billion in senior unsecured notes. The deal refinances a bridge loan used to acquire xAI, converting short-term floating-rate debt into long-term fixed-rate paper. Despite holding
Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Exploded on the Pad. Now It's Hiring 500 to Build the Next Ones.
Blue Origin is investing $600 million in an 830,000-square-foot upper stage manufacturing facility—Project Horizon—at its Florida Rocket Park campus, adding 500 high-paying aerospace jobs and signaling a major push to scale New Glenn rocket production despite recent setbacks.
SpaceX's $6.3B AI Deal With Reflection Is Quietly Fueling a Hiring War for Engineers Who Can Deploy Models in Orbit
SpaceX signs a $6.3B computing deal with open-source AI startup Reflection AI, gaining access to Nvidia GB300 chips at its Colossus 2 data center. The agreement highlights SpaceX's shift toward commercial AI infrastructure and reveals a hidden hiring surge for orbital-AI engineering roles requiring
The Wormhole Prints Rocket Barrels Next to Thrust Stands That Simulate Mars Transfer — and NASA Is Betting 2028 on Both
NASA's selection of Relativity Space for the Aeolus Mars orbiter mission marks a pivotal shift in the company's credibility and hiring power, enabling it to attract top engineering talent with a deep-space mission on its manifest despite an unproven rocket and past launch failure.
Blue Origin's JARVIS Program Is Hiring Production Planners, Not Rocket Scientists — and 118 New Roles in a Week Show Why
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test on May 28, 2026, destroying the first stage and damaging the launch pad. The incident shifted hiring from launch operations to production, with 118 new roles focused on manufacturing at the Merritt Island facility under the JARVIS pro
Toulouse Has One Metro Area Where You Can Walk From a Cleanroom to a Military Satellite Review Board — and Every European Space Company Knows It
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales merge satellite and space operations into a new European entity with 25,000 employees and €6.5 billion revenue, targeting 2027 launch to counter SpaceX and strengthen strategic autonomy.
AIM's Ouster Lidar Deal Looks Like a Supply Agreement. The Engineering Requirements Buried in It Are Actually a 21-Person Recruiting Blueprint.
AIM Intelligent Machines raised $50M in June 2025 with a clear mission: convert venture capital into engineers as fast as possible. The Redmond startup retrofits heavy equipment with plug-and-play autonomy, targeting mining and construction sites. With 21 open roles and a strategic lidar deal with O
SpaceX Reuses Boosters for a Decade. Blue Origin Just Hired Its First Refurbishment Engineer.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test on May 28, 2026, destroying pad infrastructure and exposing deep structural failures in its reusability program. Despite the setback, the company is aggressively hiring test and refurbishment engineers to fix the issues and resume lau
SpaceX Spent $15 Billion on Starship and Flew Five Flights. Now It's Hiring the Engineers Who Keep Factories From Breaking.
SpaceX's Starship program faces a critical bottleneck: scaling factory production to meet ambitious launch cadence targets. While Falcon 9 achieves rapid reuse, Starship's complexity demands new industrial engineering roles focused on equipment reliability, maintenance, and high-rate manufacturing i
Relativity Space Has Never Reached Orbit. NASA Just Handed It a Mars Mission — and 17 New Job Postings in Seven Days Show the Clock Is Already Ticking
NASA selected Relativity Space to design and launch a Mars orbiter carrying the Aeolus atmospheric instrument suite on Terran R in late 2028. The mission anchors Relativity's Interplanetary Sciences Program, backed by Eric Schmidt's leadership and capital. Meanwhile, Long Beach has emerged as an add
SpaceX Is Building Two 700,000-Square-Foot Rocket Megafactories at Once — and 126 New Job Postings in Seven Days Show It's Already Behind on Staffing
SpaceX is building two massive manufacturing facilities—Gigabay at Starbase, Texas and another at Kennedy Space Center, Florida—each capable of producing up to 1,000 Starship vehicles per year. This dual-site strategy marks SpaceX's shift from proving Starship can fly to scaling production for unpre
SpaceX Pays Up to $270,000 for RFIC Engineers. Blue Origin Is Paying $376,844. The Reason Is a 6 Tbps Constellation Nobody Saw Coming.
Blue Origin's TeraWave multi-orbit satellite network demands custom silicon at scale. Job postings for PLL IC design engineers in San Diego reveal the technical ambitions behind the 6 Tbps constellation, which stacks 5,280 LEO satellites with Q/V-band RF payloads and 128 MEO satellites carrying opti
A Ground-Station Startup in Torrance Is Paying $220,000 for Security Engineers Who Understand Both Kubernetes and TS/SCI Clearances — and 96 People Applied in Two Days
Northwood Space secured $149.8M in funding and a U.S. Space Force contract to modernize satellite ground infrastructure with its Portal phased-array system, scaling production and global deployment.
The Pentagon needs phased-array satellites. CesiumAstro just got $470M to build them — and it's hiring in Austin at $160,515 a year.
CesiumAstro closed $470M in Series C financing, including a record $200M EXIM debt facility, to scale production of software-defined phased-array satellites. The company also acquired AI startup Vidrovr to add onboard machine learning for autonomous space-based signal processing.
The Banks Behind SpaceX's IPO Are Losing Talent to the Company They Just Took Public
SpaceX's planned $20 billion bond offering signals major hiring in treasury, finance, tax, and investor relations. The company is building financial infrastructure to support its global Starlink business, rising capital expenditures, and post-IPO debt management, with 110 new roles added in the past
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