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3,243 articlesThe 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
Singapore's First Thales Avionics Lab Outside France Needs Engineers Who Can Certify AI for Flight — and the Roles Are Open Now
Thales Alenia Space has returned to marginal profit in 2025 after two years of losses, triggering a major hiring push across APAC. With 227 roles added in one week spanning Jakarta, Singapore, and European sites, the company is staffing up for growth in satellite, avionics, and AI-driven air-traffic
France's Defense Job Postings Outnumber Germany's and the UK's Combined. Thales Alone Is Hiring 9,000 in 2026.
Renault and Thales unveiled the 4 TROOP, a hybrid 4×4 prototype combining troop transport, drone/robot command, and networked tactical operations—signaling a new model for European defense platforms.
Anduril Added 171 Roles This Week. True Anomaly Added 13 — and the 13 May Matter More.
True Anomaly raised $650M in a Series D round valuing the defense space startup at $2.2B. The company builds Jackal satellites and Mosaic software for U.S. military space operations, including the Pentagon's Golden Dome interceptor program. With plans to scale manufacturing and headcount, True Anoma
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales Are Merging Their Space Divisions Into a €6.5B Giant With 25,000 Workers
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to merge their space businesses into a single entity, creating one of the world's largest space companies. Expected to be operational in 2027, the joint venture will employ 25,000 people, generate €6.5 billion in annual revenue,
The Average Firmware Engineer Earns $165,000. Anthropic Is Paying $405,000 to Lock Down the Hardware Beneath Its AI Models
Anthropic is hiring platform hardware security engineers with deep firmware and systems security expertise, offering up to $485,000. The roles reveal the AI company's push to secure bare-metal GPU infrastructure from silicon to OS, driven by enterprise demand for supply-chain integrity and hardware-
Advanced Packaging Is the Bottleneck Crippling Nvidia and AMD. SpaceX Just Bet $280 Million It Can Crack It in Central Texas.
SpaceX is investing $280 million to expand its Bastrop, Texas facility into North America's largest semiconductor R&D and advanced packaging site, creating over 400 jobs and building a vertically integrated chip operation that may serve both Starlink and future AI hardware.
SpaceX Is Hiring AI Engineers in Palo Alto to Run Models Inside Rocket Design — and the Salary Band Tells You How Serious Musk Is
SpaceX is hiring AI inference engineers in Palo Alto, far from its Hawthorne headquarters. The role pays $135K–$160K and signals SpaceX's growing software ambitions beyond rocket hardware.
AI Agents Fail Not Because the Models Break but Because the Systems Around Them Do. Temporal Just Raised $300M to Fix That — and It's Hiring 12 Roles a Week to Do It.
Temporal raised $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, doubling its prior valuation. The company's durable execution engine solves reliability challenges in agentic AI workflows, with OpenAI, Netflix, and JPMorgan among its customers.
Stepful's Platform Has Graduated 32,000 Health Workers — and Now It's Hiring Them as Instructors
Stepful raised $55M in Series C funding to tackle healthcare's staffing crisis by treating it as a supply problem. The AI-powered platform trains practice-ready workers faster than traditional pipelines, with 32,000+ graduates placed and major health systems like Mount Sinai and Providence as client
Blue Origin Plans to Build 60 Rocket Stages a Year. It Has Completed Eight.
Blue Origin added 116 roles in the past seven days, outpacing SpaceX's 98 and NASA's 11 over the same period. The listings reveal a company staffing for reusability and production scaling, not damage control. Key roles include a BE-4 engine recovery stage engineer, manufacturing engineers for engine
The EXIM Bank's Largest 'Make More in America' Loan Ever Went to a 170-Person Satellite Startup. Its Hiring Spree Explains Why.
CesiumAstro closed $470M in equity and debt financing, including the largest deal under EXIM Bank's Make More in America initiative. The Texas-based satellite manufacturer is building a 270,000 sq ft facility, creating 500+ jobs, and scaling production of software-defined phased-array spacecraft and
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Announced a Satellite Joint Venture. SpaceX's Response Was a Hiring Blitz.
SpaceX is recruiting RAN-integration engineers in Redmond, WA, to bridge Starlink's satellite constellation with terrestrial LTE and 5G networks. The role demands rare expertise in both 3GPP cellular standards and LEO-satellite communications, with salaries ranging from $125,000 to $185,000.
ASML Spent ₩240 Billion on a Campus That Doesn't Make Chips — and It's Still the Smartest Bet in Semiconductors
ASML's new Hwaseong campus in South Korea is a strategic ecosystem play, not a production facility. With 1,500 employees, on-site EUV/DUV remanufacturing, advanced training, and deep partnerships with Samsung and SK hynix, ASML is embedding itself into Korea's semiconductor supply chain to lock in l
Arsenal-1 Will Produce AI-Piloted Drones, Interceptor Missiles, and Cruise Missiles on the Same Production Line — a Model the Pentagon Is Betting $1 Billion On
Anduril Industries will build Arsenal-1, a five-million-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Pickaway County, Ohio, creating over 4,000 direct jobs by 2035. The $900M+ project will produce autonomous defense systems including the YFQ-44A Fury collaborative combat aircraft, Roadrunner inter
Your Next FP&A Tool Won't Come From Anaplan or Workday. It's Being Built in Madrid by a Startup That Added 16 Roles This Week.
Abacum closed a $60 million Series B to fuel hiring and product expansion in the AI-native FP&A space. The Madrid-born startup's partnership with Maxio and aggressive go-to-market hiring signal a push to challenge legacy planning tools, while Madrid's emergence as a fintech talent hub gives Abacum a
NASA Picked a Rocket Company With No Orbital Record to Reach Mars. The 27 Jobs It Just Posted Reveal Why.
NASA partners with Relativity Space for the 2028 Aeolus Mars orbiter mission, marking a milestone for 3D-printed rockets and interplanetary exploration.
ASML's Backlog Hit €38.8 Billion. The Bottleneck Isn't Machines — It's the PLM Engineers and IT Architects Who Wire Them Together
SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI's Terafab project aims to produce one terawatt of AI compute annually from a Texas facility complex. With costs up to $119 billion, Intel as foundry partner, and ASML as a critical equipment supplier, the project could reshape the global semiconductor landscape.
The Navy Needs SPY-6 Radars on 50 Ships. Raytheon Has Them on 12 — and Its Rhode Island Factory Is Where the Catch-Up Happens.
Raytheon's $515M SPY-6 radar contract and $100M facility expansion in Rhode Island are driving a major hiring surge across engineering and technical disciplines, with hundreds of open roles in radar systems, naval integration, and manufacturing.
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