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3,245 articlesAnduril Posted 234 Jobs in One Week. The Average Clearance Takes 135 Days.
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.18-million-square-foot manufacturing and research campus spanning Long Beach and Lakewood, California. The facility is expected to support roughly 5,500 direct jobs at full capacity in autonomous defense systems production. The article examines the h
SpaceX builds 40 satellites a week. Boeing's El Segundo line is targeting 60 a year — for a single customer.
Boeing won a $2.8 billion contract from Space Systems Command to build the first two Evolved Strategic Satellites for the Space Force's Evolved Strategic SATCOM program, with options for two more. The satellites provide jam-resistant, secure connectivity for nuclear command and control from geostati
SpaceX is building 70 satellites a week while its bonds post the worst debut in recent memory.
SpaceX's Redmond facility produces roughly 70 Starlink satellites per week, making it the densest satellite manufacturing operation in the industry. The article covers the factory's rapid expansion, workforce growth across 393 local jobs, bond market turbulence following SpaceX's $20–25 billion debt
Rocket Lab spent $275M on sensors. Then it bought the company that makes the lenses inside them.
Rocket Lab acquired Optical Support, Inc. in February 2026, absorbing 20 team members and 22,000 sq ft of advanced optics manufacturing facilities in Tucson, Arizona. The deal follows Rocket Lab's $275M acquisition of Geost in August 2025, completing a vertically integrated electro-optical payload s
NASA lost 2,000 senior staff in 2025. A company that has never flown is filling the gap.
Relativity Space's NASA contract to operate a Mars orbiter by 2028 is driving a distinct hiring surge in deep-space autonomous operations, planetary science integration, and interplanetary mission planning — skills that diverge sharply from the low-Earth-orbit talent dominating the post-SpaceX comme
Talos surfaced 241 new rare-disease diagnoses from old data — the genomes were sequenced years ago
Talos, an open-source genomic reanalysis pipeline, surfaced 241 new rare-disease diagnoses from 4,735 undiagnosed patients—a 5.1% additional yield from re-interpreting existing data against the latest public evidence. The Nature Medicine paper validates automated iterative reanalysis at near-populat
SpaceX is building a consumer telecom company inside a rocket factory — and recruiting from the carriers it's trying to beat.
SpaceX is preparing to launch a standalone Starlink mobile phone service for US consumers, marking a major shift from its rural broadband roots. The company has acquired nearly $20 billion in wireless spectrum, raised $25 billion in bonds, and gone public — but bond losses are mounting as investors
Anduril's $20B Army contract replaces 120 separate deals — and the first task order is already $87M
On March 13, 2026, the U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a 10-year enterprise contract worth up to $20 billion, consolidating over 120 separate procurement actions into a single firm-fixed-price vehicle. The deal replaces Northrop Grumman's legacy air defense system and signals a major shift towa
Anduril is assembling a space-radar division in a city better known for surfing than satellites
Zero G Talent's board recorded 222 Anduril roles added in seven days, with a cluster of space-radar and space-sensing positions concentrated in Orange County. The most senior posting is Director of Technical Program Management, Space Radar in Costa Mesa, alongside Senior Radar Engineer and GNC roles
The Puget Sound's Hydroelectric Edge Brought Databricks to Bellevue — Now the Hyperscalers Are Gobbling the Last of It
Databricks signed a 160,000-square-foot lease at Four106 in Bellevue, pushing its Puget Sound footprint past 270,000 square feet. The expansion coincides with Naveen Rao's startup Unconventional AI, which claims to cut AI inference energy use by 1,000x. The Pacific Northwest's cheap hydroelectric po
1,500 people will build landers in a Jeff Bezos factory. Many of them can't cash their own paycheck.
Blue Origin's Lunar Plant 1 in Merritt Island, Florida, is a 200,000-square-foot production facility designed to build the crewed Blue Moon MK2 lander for NASA's Artemis V mission. The factory represents a shift from prototyping to serial production, with 1,500 production workers and a co-location m
Sierra AI raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation and made compliance its own department — that's the whole story
Sierra AI raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation, hitting $150M ARR in just eight quarters — the fastest ramp in enterprise SaaS. This article analyzes what this 105x ARR multiple means for AI talent: rising salary bands for production-grade agent engineers, a new workforce category blending model orche
Quindar raised $18M to hire 15 people in a week — and one job posting explains why
Quindar raised $18M Series A to scale its cloud-native satellite mission-operations platform and break into classified government work. The Denver startup is hiring aggressively, landed Portal Space as a key customer, and is building CMMC 2.0 compliance infrastructure to serve defense and intelligen
America Built a Handful of Exquisite Submarines. Now It's Building 200 Undersea Drones a Year.
Anduril Industries is building a 150,000-square-foot facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to mass-produce Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicles at an unprecedented rate of 200 units annually. The factory signals a shift from bespoke crewed undersea platforms to mass-produced autonomous systems,
Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are fighting over the same 41 engineers — and the talent pool is a few thousand deep
Rocket Lab's Electron production line now completes one rocket every 11 days, enabling responsive-launch missions for the U.S. Space Force. The company's Long Beach Engine Development Center produces 3D-printed Rutherford engines for Electron and develops the Archimedes engine for the medium-lift Ne
SpaceX's $280M Bastrop bet creates a job title that neither the chip industry nor aerospace has ever hired for
SpaceX is investing over $280 million to build North America's largest PCB and panel-level packaging plant in Bastrop, Texas, adding one million square feet and 400+ jobs. Backed by a $17.3 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant, the facility will produce Starlink kits and advanced semico
Anthropic is paying up to $485,000 for engineers who never train a model
Inferact raised $150M in seed funding at an $800M valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed, with Sequoia, Altimeter, Redpoint, ZhenFund, Databricks Ventures, and UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fund participating. The round signals a shift in AI value from training to inference. Separately,
Lockheed posted 110 jobs then doubled — every new role sits inside an active Guard base
On June 24, 2026, the U.S. awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year, up to $35 billion undefinitized contract to quadruple THAAD interceptor production under the Golden Dome homeland missile defense mandate. The deal is the first major multiyear procurement under the Department of War's Acquisition Tran
Blue Origin's pad was still smoldering from New Glenn's explosion when it posted 157 new roles — the highest-paid cluster targets a discipline no other U.S. employer is staffing for
Blue Origin's MK2 Blue Moon lander job postings reveal a deliberate effort to create a dedicated soft-landing GN&C workforce category distinct from traditional satellite and launch-vehicle controls pipelines. The article examines how the roles demand coupled expertise in flexible-body, slosh, and sp
Databricks is staffing São Paulo and Mexico City for a product that competes with Oracle and SQL Server
Databricks' Latin American business grew over 80% year-over-year in October 2024 and accelerated past 150% by July 2025. Brazil alone grew more than 150% over two years. The company has tripled its São Paulo office space, opened new offices in Heredia, Costa Rica, and Mexico City, and is bringing it
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