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3,244 articlesAnduril's Bellevue office was Meta's 3 months ago. Now it's ground zero for a new talent war
Anduril Industries has subleased 39,851 square feet at Skyline Tower in Bellevue from Meta Platforms, marking the defense contractor's first physical presence on Seattle's Eastside. Backed by $2.2 billion in 2025 revenue and a $5 billion Series H round at a $61 billion valuation, Anduril is targetin
JPL shed 1,500 people in two years — and a single Long Beach job fair proved where they're landing
NASA's decision to compete the JPL management contract ended six decades of sole-source control by Caltech. The article also covers Rocket Lab winning NASA science launch contracts and Loft Orbital hosting JPL's AI software on commercial satellites, signaling a broader shift in how deep-space and Ea
Anduril raised $5B and won a Golden Dome interceptor slot the same month. Now it needs engineers who understand both orbital mechanics and AI.
Anduril closed a $5B Series H round at a $61B valuation, the largest private funding round in defense-tech history, more than doubling its $30.5B valuation from 12 months prior. Revenue more than doubled to $2.2B in 2025, and the company nearly doubled its workforce. The round positions Anduril as a
The most critical hires at SpaceX's Texas launch base won't touch a rocket
SpaceX plans to build an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called Starpipe from the Port of Brownsville to its Starbase launch complex in South Texas. The 16-inch pipeline will feed an on-site liquefaction plant producing liquid methane for Starship, which burns roughly 630,000 gallons per launch. The
Blue Origin is spending $600 million on a factory for a rocket that just exploded — and the 151 new job postings explain why
Blue Origin is investing $600 million in an 830,000-square-foot upper-stage manufacturing facility at Cape Canaveral, creating 500 aerospace jobs. The move signals a push toward high-cadence New Glenn launches and cheaper reusable rocket production. The announcement follows a New Glenn pad explosion
A typical Space Systems Command ground system takes more than a decade to field. Quindar says it can connect to a satellite in 23 days.
Quindar closed an $18 million Series A round in November 2025 to scale its cloud-based satellite mission-control platform and build a classified facility in the Denver metro area. The three-year-old startup, founded in 2022 by former OneWeb engineers, plans to grow from roughly 30 employees to nearl
Blue Origin lost its only pad and a rocket in one blast. Its careers page shows why that might still be a down payment on something bigger.
A New Glenn rocket exploded during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral's LC-36 on May 28, destroying the pad and a lightning tower. The incident threatens Blue Origin's NASA Artemis lunar lander contracts and exposes a structural vulnerability in reusable heavy-lift operations: ground infrastructure mu
Runway beat Google and OpenAI's video models with 100 engineers. Its next hires have nothing to do with video.
Runway closed a $315M Series E at a $5.3B valuation, nearly doubling its prior mark. The round, led by General Atlantic with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, and Adobe Ventures, brings total funding to $860M. But the real story is strategic: CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela is pitching Runway as a world-model simulati
Thales Is Building a Cloud Google Can't Touch — and Hiring 8,000 People to Run It
Thales plans to recruit 8,000 people worldwide in 2025, with 40% in engineering roles spanning AI, cybersecurity, and data science. The company's hiring surge is backed by a new sovereign cloud partnership with Google Cloud in Germany, operated through a fully owned French-German entity with SecNumC
Boston Dynamics' Atlas was a YouTube backflip act. Its Waltham job postings tell a different story.
Boston Dynamics is investing $100 million in a 323,000-square-foot facility in Waltham, Massachusetts, consolidating operations to scale production of its all-electric Atlas humanoid alongside Spot and Stretch robots. The move, supported by $25 million in state incentives, will create 1,250 jobs by
A 270,000-square-foot satellite factory and a $965B AI valuation are competing for engineers who've never been fought over like this
CesiumAstro closed $470 million in growth capital on Feb. 2, 2026, comprising $270 million in Series C equity and a $200 million EXIM Bank debt package. The company is building a 270,000-square-foot headquarters near Austin, Texas, consolidating engineering, electronics manufacturing, and satellite
Anthropic is building the legal case and the enterprise tool at the same time. Both need the same engineers.
Anthropic launched Claude Tag in beta on June 23, 2026, embedding a persistent multiplayer AI instance directly into Slack channels. Unlike its single-user predecessor, Claude Tag accumulates context over time, executes tasks asynchronously, and proactively surfaces information in ambient mode. With
Thales's $2B Garden Island deal creates 800 jobs — and a clearance bottleneck that could starve the entire Pacific fleet.
Thales Australia has been appointed Regional Maintenance Provider for the Regional Maintenance Centre East at Garden Island, Sydney, in a seven-year, $2 billion deal—the largest sustainment commitment the Royal Australian Navy has made to a single east-coast site. Covering Canberra-class LHDs, Hobar
Elizabeth Warren warned about SpaceX's index inclusion. SpaceX's job board tells a different story.
FTSE Russell's confirmation of SpaceX's inclusion in the Russell 1000, 3000, and Top 200 indexes triggered a mechanical buying timeline and accelerated the company's transformation into a publicly traded entity. With only 4.3% of shares in float at IPO, index funds are chasing a tiny slice of a $1.7
A $61B defense-tech startup wants to retrain 2,400 laid-off autoworkers to build military drones
Anduril's $5B Series H round at a $61B valuation, driven by $2.2B revenue, signals defense-tech pricing has shifted from narrative multiples to production-volume metrics. The article also covers Anduril's talks to acquire Nissan's Oppama plant for drone production in Japan, reflecting trans-Pacific
Anthropic's Claude Code roles approach senior researcher pay — and signal what the company is really defending
Anthropic is rapidly hiring Technical Specialists for Claude Code across San Francisco and London, defending against industrial-scale distillation attacks like the Alibaba case, and launching Claude Tag to embed AI into enterprise workflows. This analysis connects the hiring surge, the distillation
Aurora's security team is now larger than its safety team — and the trucks have no drivers
Aurora Innovation launched the first commercial driverless heavy-duty trucking service on U.S. public roads between Dallas and Houston in May 2025. The article explores the company's safety milestones, including 100,000 miles without an Aurora Driver-attributed collision, its expanding freight netwo
United Therapeutics picked a startup over the ISS to reinvent its lung drugs in microgravity
Varda Space Industries raised $187M in Series C funding, bringing total capital to $329M, to scale orbital pharmaceutical manufacturing. With an FAA reentry license, a collaboration with United Therapeutics, and a production hub in El Segundo, Varda is moving from demonstration missions to repeatabl
A $35 billion Lockheed contract and a rocket every 11 days are competing for the exact same 400 engineers
Rocket Lab's Electron production line now produces one rocket every 11 days, driving aggressive hiring at its Wallops Island, Virginia facility. The company added 35 roles globally in the past week alone, including test and launch engineers for both Electron and the upcoming reusable Neutron vehicle
NASA handed Blue Origin lunar missions the same week its pad was still smoldering — now the company needs 141 workers who can do something expendable-launch programs never required.
On May 28, 2026, a New Glenn rocket exploded during a static-fire test at Cape Canaveral, destroying the vehicle and severely damaging Blue Origin's launch pad. Within weeks, the company launched a massive hiring surge for launch operations technicians focused on rocket refurbishment and pad recover
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