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3,242 articlesNabla Bio Processes 30 Billion Tokens a Month Across 130 Health Systems. The Engineers Who Can Build That Infrastructure Are Being Hunted by Mistral, Meta, and Google at Twice the Salary.
Nabla Bio raised $70M in Series C funding and secured a $1B+ partnership with Takeda, signaling AI-driven biologics have entered core pharma R&D strategy. The company is hiring ML engineers, protein engineers, and computational biologists across Paris and the US.
ArianeGroup posted 146 open roles — and the ones keeping Europe's rocket program on schedule aren't engineering jobs.
Air Liquide and ArianeGroup signed two contracts on June 11, 2026, shifting Ariane 6 into sustained industrial production. The deals cover cryogenic equipment through the 42nd flight and a three-year gas supply agreement, driving hiring in procurement, supply chain, and industrial gas logistics at L
Only 15% of organizations are ready to run AI agents in production. The Fivetran-dbt Labs merger is hiring an entirely new role to close that gap.
Fivetran and dbt Labs merged to create a unified data platform purpose-built for AI agents, spanning ingestion through transformation to governed agent-ready context. The combined entity serves 100,000+ data teams, launched joint product innovations including dbt Core v2.0, dbt State, dbt Wizard, an
Your city just became a SpaceX hiring target. Roles in Redmond, Bastrop, and Vandenberg offer up to $52.75 an hour, and 111 jobs dropped this week alone.
SpaceX's record $75 billion Nasdaq IPO in June 2026 valued the company at $1.77 trillion, minted thousands of employee millionaires, and immediately reshaped the space-sector talent market with 111 new roles added in a single week.
Skydio's factory-floor engineers earn twice the national average — because almost nobody else is building this workforce
Skydio has committed $3.5 billion to expand U.S. manufacturing operations over the next five years, making it the largest American drone manufacturer to invest at this scale in domestic production. The investment targets factory capacity, R&D acceleration, and American supply chain development, crea
A NAVWAR Analyst at Kirtland AFB Makes Up to $120,000 and Needs Python, RF Analysis, and a Clearance. Commercial Defense-Tech Roles Want the Exact Same Profile.
The U.S. Space Force is doubling in size, outpacing recruiting targets while civilian workforce cuts create a hidden tension. NAVWAR — navigation warfare over GPS and PNT data — is driving much of the hiring demand, with Kirtland AFB and Buckley SFB emerging as key talent hubs.
Aaru is valued at $1 billion on less than $10 million in annual recurring revenue. The gap between those two numbers is the market pricing in a shift most of the AI industry hasn't noticed yet.
Aaru, founded in 2024, builds AI agents that simulate human behavior to predict how demographics respond to future events. With a $1B headline valuation and clients like Accenture and EY, the NYC-based startup is scaling its infrastructure to power thousands of simultaneous AI agents.
The Overture supersonic airliner was supposed to be Boom's reason for existing. Now the company's primary revenue driver is a product it conceived, funded, and sold in a matter of months.
Boom Supersonic, founded to revive supersonic passenger flight, has pivoted to a natural-gas turbine business called Superpower. The division has already secured $300M in funding and a $1.25B+ backlog, with profits earmarked to fund the Overture airliner's development.
Starlink's IPO depends on a workforce most people have never heard of — fiber-splicing technicians working second shifts in a Redmond clean room.
SpaceX is hiring Laser Production Technicians at scale for its Redmond, Washington Starlink facility. The role involves hands-on fiber optic assembly, clean-room work, and optical subassembly testing. Compensation ranges from $22–$37/hour across three levels, with full benefits. The hiring surge sig
Thales plans to hire 9,000 people in 2026 — and Mistral AI, SpaceX, and Anduril are chasing the same 3,600 engineers.
Thales Group plans to recruit more than 9,000 employees worldwide in 2026, with 40% in engineering roles. France leads with 3,300 hires, driven by major programs including Sentinel-1 Next Generation and SkyDefender.
The bottleneck in clinical AI isn't model architecture. Hippocratic AI's open roles reveal what it actually is.
Hippocratic AI raised $126M at a $3.5B valuation and acquired Grove AI to accelerate its clinical-grade LLM pipeline. The moves reveal a strategy focused on regulatory-ready AI, cross-functional engineering talent, and building where clinical data lives, including an emerging hub in Cleveland.
Boom Supersonic's $500 million factory in Greensboro sits idle. The 30 open roles are all in Colorado.
Boom Supersonic is quietly shifting its hiring and manufacturing focus from the Overture supersonic airliner to its Superpower ground-based power generation turbines. With a $500 million Greensboro factory sitting idle and nearly all 30 open roles based in Colorado, the company's near-term future is
Partiful wants an ops lead who has debugged a DoorDash incentive structure, written Python, and built AI agents. Almost no job ladder produces that person.
Partiful's Business Operations Lead posting demands a rare hybrid: field work experience, SQL and Python analytics skills, AI-native fluency, people management, and strategic contribution. This role reflects a broader trend among AI startups redefining operations talent as a core organizational prim
IonQ is hiring GNC engineers who've never touched quantum physics and RF engineers who've never heard of QKD. The job postings reveal which skill the company expects you to learn on the job.
IonQ's acquisition of Capella Space has created a new category of engineering role: quantum-satellite systems engineers who bridge quantum communications and spacecraft design. With a $49 million Pentagon contract and active hiring in Louisville, Colorado, the merged company is building a global spa
A senior ML engineer in Paris typically earns €80K. Mistral is paying $192K. The engineers who can write a Navier-Stokes solver AND debug a distributed GPU training run are the reason.
Mistral AI's €3 billion funding round values the Paris-based lab at roughly €11.7–$13.8 billion, placing it in a different weight class than most European AI startups. The article examines how this aggressive valuation drives hiring velocity, with headcount more than doubling in under two years, and
IonQ bought a radar satellite company. It now needs engineers who understand quantum key distribution and cryogenic systems in orbit — and almost nobody trains them.
IonQ's acquisition of Capella Space has created a new mandate: building space-based quantum communication infrastructure. The merged companies are competing for a scarce pool of engineers skilled in quantum information, radar systems, and spacecraft engineering in Colorado's Boulder corridor.
A DevOps engineer for a satellite program. A propulsion designer for a radar payload. The 237 roles Thales Alenia Space just posted reveal what building a spacecraft actually requires in 2026.
ESA's €700M Sentinel-1 Next Generation contract with Thales Alenia Space triggers a 237-role hiring surge across Europe and Israel, spanning DevOps, propulsion, and site supervision as the program races toward a 2034 launch.
The tech press is covering AI engineering hires. DTC health companies are quietly offering $150,000–$220,000 to growth marketers who can navigate FDA rules and LLM-powered funnels simultaneously.
Direct-to-consumer health companies like Hims & Hers and AI-native startups are offering $150K–$220K to growth marketers fluent in AI tooling, HIPAA compliance, and regulated-industry acquisition. As patient acquisition shifts digital and federal policy embraces DTC pharma, a talent bottleneck is dr
Robot learning engineer postings grew 340% in two years while H-1B filings froze. The companies that survived the gap didn't find new candidates. They retrained the technicians already on payroll.
The September 2025 White House proclamation imposing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions froze robotics hiring for nine months. Even after a federal judge vacated the fee, the damage was done. Robotics companies adapted by converting technicians into engineers, launching non-traditional hiring pipe
Rivian lost $3.6 billion in 2025. Its robotics spinoff just raised $1 billion at a $2 billion valuation — and plans to build robots on the same lines that build SUVs.
As EV margins compress, companies like Rivian are spinning out robotics ventures, leveraging existing talent, silicon, and manufacturing infrastructure. Mind Robotics raised $615M at a $2B valuation, signaling a structural pivot where EV firms become the primary talent pipeline and strategic foundat
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