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3,243 articlesThe Aerospace Corporation added 35 roles in seven days — and almost none of them mention DiskSat
On December 18, 2025, Rocket Lab launched four flat, round DiskSats from Virginia, marking the first orbital demonstration of a new satellite form factor backed by NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and The Aerospace Corporation. DiskSat replaces the traditional CubeSat box with a thin disk, offering more
The AI Industry Has a 50% Talent Shortage. Kleiner Perkins Is Spending $3.5 Billion to Fill the Gap Its Own Portfolio Created.
Kleiner Perkins closed $3.5B across two new funds in March 2026, betting that the biggest AI returns will come from applications built on top of foundation models. The firm's portfolio spans infrastructure, agentic orchestration, security, and physical AI, with aggressive hiring across its companies
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
Anduril's factories can retool in days. The reason is a software stack it built from scratch — and is still hiring to finish.
ArsenalOS is Anduril Industries' proprietary digital-manufacturing platform designed to unify engineering design and factory-floor execution. It powers major facilities like Arsenal-1 in Ohio and Quonset Point in Rhode Island, enabling scalable production of autonomous systems through software-defin
Colorado Springs Has Over 1,000 Electronic Warfare Job Openings — and The Aerospace Corporation Just Added Five More at $234,000
The Aerospace Corporation posted 35 jobs in the past week, with five concentrated in spectrum warfare and multi-domain sensing. The roles align directly with Air Force Research Laboratory program areas, signaling growing demand for electromagnetic spectrum expertise. AFRL's Sensors Directorate alone
Anduril's Rhode Island Factory Will Build 200 Underwater Drones a Year — and It's Hiring 160 People This Week to Do It
Anduril Industries is opening a major AUV production facility at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, targeting 200 autonomous underwater vehicles per year and creating over 100 jobs. Backed by an $18.6M Navy contract and a surging defense budget for autonomy, the move signals a shift from prototyping to ma
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
Rocket Lab Is Hiring 44 People in Seven Days for a Maryland Factory That Hasn't Built a Rocket Yet
Rocket Lab is transforming a former Lockheed Martin facility in Middle River, Maryland, into a 113,000 sq ft Space Structures Complex to produce carbon composite structures for its launch vehicles and external customers, creating 65 jobs by 2025.
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.
Cerebras Has 98 Open Positions and a $20 Billion OpenAI Contract. The Engineers It Needs Already Work for Nvidia.
Cerebras Systems' S-1 filing reveals a company that has reoriented around AI inference, anchored by a $20B+ OpenAI deal for 750MW of low-latency capacity. With $510M revenue, first profitable year, and a $56.4B IPO valuation, the wafer-scale chipmaker is betting inference economics beat Nvidia at it
The U.S. Navy burned 150 SM-6s in the Middle East. Northrop Grumman plans to build 25,000 rocket motors a year. The math only works if 1,200 people show up in Box Elder County.
Northrop Grumman says it can nearly double solid-rocket motor production to 25,000 annually by 2029, backed by over $1 billion in capacity investment and 10 million square feet of manufacturing space. But a surge in hiring across propulsion engineering, supply chain, and production roles reveals tha
Boeing Is Paying Up to $287,500 for Engineers Who Can Put Quantum Encryption on a Satellite — and the Roles Don't Say 'Quantum' Anywhere
Boeing's Q4S satellite system has demonstrated high-fidelity entanglement swapping in ground testing, marking a key step toward space-based quantum networking. The mission, set to launch in 2027, is driving significant hiring at Boeing's El Segundo campus, with over 150 open engineering and systems
A Nobel Laureate Left Google for Anthropic. The 23 Roles Added This Week Explain Why.
John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold and 2024 Nobel laureate, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic. His move, alongside Noam Shazeer's exit to OpenAI, signals a shift in AI talent. Anthropic's aggressive hiring in developer productivity and infrastructure reveals its next major platform ambitions.
Thales Is Hiring 8,000 Engineers to Build Software-Defined Weapons. The Pentagon's Own Workforce Plan Says It Can't Fill Those Roles Itself.
Thales plans to hire 8,000 people globally in 2025, with 40% in engineering roles spanning software, cybersecurity, AI, and data science. The shift reflects a strategic pivot toward software-defined defence platforms and autonomous systems, supported by internal mobility and 35 specialized training
A Rocket Exploded in May. Blue Origin's Response Was a Hiring Surge in Alabama.
Blue Origin is investing $71.4 million to expand its Huntsville operations, adding 105 jobs and scaling production of BE-4 and BE-3U rocket engines. The move taps into Alabama’s growing propulsion talent hub and supports demand from ULA’s Vulcan and Blue Origin’s New Glenn programs.
Anduril doubled its valuation to $61 billion — and 157 new job postings in one week show where the money is going
Anduril Industries raised $5B in Series H funding, doubling its valuation to $61B and accelerating production of autonomous defense systems. With dual CCA contracts awarded alongside General Atomics, demand surges for software engineers and C2 integrators. Ohio emerges as a hub for drone-defense man
The Pentagon Gave Rocket Lab $816 Million for 18 Satellites. Lockheed, Northrop, and L3Harris Are Buying Rocket Lab's Sensors for Theirs.
Rocket Lab's 2025 Preliminary Design Review win unlocked a $515M SDA satellite contract, triggering vertical integration, Nasdaq-100 inclusion, and a 330+ role hiring surge across defense, Neutron rocket development, and production scaling.
OpenAI Has 700 Million Users. Mistral Has 1% Enterprise Adoption and a Zero-Percent Switch Rate.
Mistral AI is expanding into Montreal, hiring its first Canadian employees to build a deployment and services layer around its open-source models. The move targets bilingual AI talent, Quebec's French-speaking enterprise sectors, and favorable tax incentives.
The Air Force Split the Drone Into a Body and a Brain. Two Companies Are Hiring for the Same Engineers.
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a $20 billion enterprise contract for its AI-driven Lattice platform to serve as the central counter-drone command-and-control backbone. The deal consolidates over 120 procurement actions, accelerates software-driven defense acquisition, and drives major expa
Thales is hiring FPGA engineers faster than propulsion engineers — and a defense sonar contract is paying the bill
Thales Alenia Space added 229 open roles in a single week, signaling structural growth in Europe's space sector driven by the Sentinel-1 NG Copernicus contract and a new Orbit Fab refueling partnership. The hiring surge spans FPGA development, embedded software, cybersecurity, and orbital-servicing
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