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3,245 articlesSpace 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
Boeing Cuts 300 Exquisite Jobs. Millennium Adds Shifts for 100 Satellites.
Millennium Space Systems expands El Segundo production for the Resolute mid-class satellite platform (2-4 kW), targeting 26 deliveries in 2026 against a 100-satellite backlog. Resolute entered preliminary design review, uses flight-proven common products, and supports missions across orbits. 14 open
50+ V-BAT Crashes in 18 Months. Shield AI Now Delivers 1,000 CCAs.
Shield AI secured a U.S. Air Force production contract for Hivemind autonomy on Collaborative Combat Aircraft, but a Reuters investigation reveals over 50 V-BAT crashes, severe injuries, and whistleblower claims of safety data manipulation, challenging the $13B unicorn's ability to deliver productio
112 BCBA Roles in One Week: Alpaca Floods NC With $230K Ownership Offers
Alpaca Health posted 112 BCBA roles with $160K–$230K salaries, signaling rapid expansion of its AI-native platform that automates billing, scheduling, and documentation for clinician-owned ABA practices. The model offers 70–80% revenue pass-through, guaranteed biweekly payouts, and 80% RBT retention
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.
Only Commercial Station Contender With Flown Hardware Just Raised $500M for 2027 Launch
Vast raised $500M Series A led by Balerion Space Ventures, with In-Q-Tel, Qatar Investment Authority, Mitsui, MUFG, Nikon. Funds expand Long Beach facilities, grow team to 1,000+, advance Haven-2 for NASA CLD Phase 2. Haven Demo validated systems; Haven-1 targets Q1 2027 Falcon 9 launch.
Temporal's Job Posting Bans Data Scientists. Senior Engineers Report $340K Median.
Temporal raised $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, doubling in four months. Revenue grew 380% YoY. The company is building durable orchestration infrastructure for AI agents, with hiring across core engineering, SDKs, solutions architecture, and developer relations. Investors bet on the execution la
Rocket Lab Added 51 Roles in 7 Days. Littleton's GNC Team Demands Secret Clearance.
Rocket Lab's Littleton facility serves as a primary U.S. hub for classified spacecraft work, staffing cleared engineers for Photon bus variants supporting national security missions like Space Force TacRS and SDA contracts. True Anomaly's recent RPO demonstration highlights growing commercial role i
The Engine That Melted 50 Chambers Finally Gets Its Gigafactory.
SpaceX is scaling Raptor engine production through automation in Hawthorne and Cape Canaveral, hiring automation engineers to mass-produce full-flow staged combustion engines for Starship's high flight cadence. Engine production is now the pacing item.
206 Days for a Clearance. Vantor Just Posted 31 Jobs Needing One.
Vantor, the rebranded Maxar Intelligence, launches WorldView 3D with 24-hour terrain refresh and ramps TS/SCI-cleared hiring across Herndon, Colorado Springs, and Melbourne to build classified 3D terrain pipelines for defense customers.
Anthropic's London AI Engineers Now Command £340k, Resetting Europe's Pay Ceiling
Anthropic opens Paris and Munich offices, tripling EMEA headcount. The expansion centers on Forward Deployed Engineers embedding with enterprises, safety research as an engineering discipline, and EU AI Act compliance hiring. Local talent pipelines and leadership appointments signal a sovereign-firs
The AI Platform Beating Lockheed Martin for $20B Army Deal
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a $20 billion enterprise contract to streamline procurement of software and autonomous systems. The deal includes the Lattice platform and supports AI integration, while Anduril expands into Israel with potential acquisitions and R&D facilities.
JAL Sells Lunar Cargo Slots. ispace Races to Staff Tokyo Control Center for 2026 Delivery
ispace is transitioning from lander construction to real-time mission operations, driven by JAL's ARGO project and the ULTRA lander's integration for NASA's CLPS. The shift requires bilingual engineers with test and operations experience.
Thales Builds First GEO Satellite Line Outside Europe, U.S. in Mexico
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with Es'hailSat to build the Eshail-3/Türksat-Biruni software-defined GEO satellite on the INSPIRE platform. Thales is establishing a production hub in Cuernavaca, Mexico, hiring procurement and supply-chain roles first, leveraging lower labor costs, a strong ae
$5.6B Pentagon Contract Forces Rocket Lab Cleared Hiring Blitz Across Two Coasts
Rocket Lab operates Neutron production across two coasts: Long Beach handles avionics, software, and Archimedes engines, while Middle River builds carbon-composite tanks and structures. Both sites hire under ITAR controls, reflecting the vehicle's defense-linked technology.
Ohio Gets the Drone Factory. Colorado Gets the Air Defense Brain Trust.
Anduril added 259 roles in seven days, centered on Broomfield, CO, for software-defined air defense engineers. The hiring reveals a dual-track workforce: Ohio hardware manufacturing for CCA and Colorado/Huntsville software brain using Lattice OS for sensor fusion and real-time autonomy. Roles requir
First Hire Post-Merger: $283K DevEx PM, Not an AI Researcher
Fivetran and dbt Labs completed their merger and immediately hired a Staff Product Manager for Developer Experience to unify ELT connectors and transformation layers into a single control plane for AI agents, signaling a shift toward agentic AI data infrastructure.
Databricks added 55 roles in India in a single week — and none of them are support jobs
Databricks is making a $250 million investment in India, centered on a major Bengal and the India Data + AI Academy. The company is hiring across core platform engineering roles — backend infrastructure, search relevance, ML pipelines, multi-cloud efficiency, and databases — at seniority levels from
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
Rune Technologies Won a $99M Army Contract. Now It's Hiring the Engineers Primes Can't.
The U.S. Army awarded Rune Technologies a five-year, $99 million IDIQ contract in June 2026 to deploy its AI-powered predictive-logistics platform TyrOS across Army supply-chain operations through 2031. The platform integrates six data domains into a single Common Operating Picture, producing real-t
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