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1,493 articlesQuindar 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
Anduril added 223 roles in one week — more than Northrop Grumman posted all month
Anduril closed a $5 billion Series H round at a $61 billion valuation, more than doubling its previous mark. CEO Brian Schimpf says the company nearly doubled its workforce in 2025 as revenue hit $2.2 billion. The article examines what this valuation implies for defense-tech hiring, from robotics en
Anduril'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
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