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1,495 articlesThales Alenia Space's Rydalmere Campus Has More Job Postings Than Airbus's Entire Space Division — and the Roles Reveal Australia Is Done Being a Ground-Station Outpost
Thales Alenia Space is ramping up hiring at its Rydalmere campus in western Sydney, with 212 roles added in the past week. The surge signals a major expansion of space-hardware manufacturing in Australia, driven by European consolidation and growing sovereign space ambitions.
Figure AI Has 740 Robots and 650 Humans — and the Robots Are Winning
Figure AI has expanded into a 98,700-square-foot 'robot campus' in San Jose, signaling a shift from R&D to manufacturing and fleet operations. The move aligns with its post-Series B growth, OpenAI collaboration, and BMW commercial deal. The company is also aggressively hiring security and privacy en
Robots Outnumber Humans at Figure AI — and the Company's Fastest-Growing Job Category Is Data Governance
Figure AI's robot fleet surpassed its human workforce in Q2 2026, with 750+ robots versus ~650 employees. The milestone, driven by rapid production scaling at its BotQ factory and a warehouse deal with Catalyst Brands, marks the first time a major robotics company has more machines than people.
Thales Cut 1,300 Space Jobs. It Redeployed 70% Into Radar. The Remaining 300 Are Now in Court.
Thales plans to hire 8,000 people globally in 2025, with 40% in engineering roles. The surge reflects rising European defense budgets, air-traffic recovery, and geopolitical tensions. France leads recruitment with 3,000 hires, followed by the UK, Netherlands, US, and Australia.
Toulouse Has One Metro Area Where You Can Walk From a Cleanroom to a Military Satellite Review Board — and Every European Space Company Knows It
Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales merge satellite and space operations into a new European entity with 25,000 employees and €6.5 billion revenue, targeting 2027 launch to counter SpaceX and strengthen strategic autonomy.
Teachers Agree With Each Other 60% to 80% of the Time. Edexia's AI Hits 81.2% — and Two Job Postings Show How Hard That Was to Build
Edexia, a Brisbane-based AI startup, raised $500K in seed funding from Y Combinator and others. The company uses machine learning to automate essay grading across major curricula, claiming 81.2% exact match with teacher grades and 80% time savings. Founded by Daniel Gibbon and Nathan Wang, Edexia ta
Thales added 8,800 people last year and still wasn't done. Now it wants 9,000 more — and the roles reveal what Europe is building
Thales plans to hire over 9,000 people globally in 2026, accelerating its annual recruitment amid surging defence demand. The push spans engineering, industrial, and corporate roles across 11 countries, with France absorbing the largest share. A new Renault-Thales drone pact targets 1,000 loitering
France Wants 1,000 Drones a Month Without US or Chinese Parts. The Bottleneck Isn't the Factory — It's 1,900 Engineers.
Renault and Thales have partnered to build a sovereign French drone-manufacturing base, targeting 1,000 TOUTATIS loitering munitions per month by 2027. The collaboration addresses Europe's defense production gap by applying automotive-scale manufacturing to military drones, while also unveiling the
Legion Health hit $5M ARR before most startups finish their seed deck — and it's hiring 9 people this week to prove autonomous psychiatry can scale
Legion Health reached $5M in annual recurring revenue and secured $20M+ in funding within months, scaling both clinical and AI operations simultaneously. The company automates 95% of psychiatric practice admin work, integrating fragmented healthcare systems with NLP and workflow orchestration. With
Oklo's Safety Analysis Engineer Must Run TRACE Simulations and Draft NRC Filings Before Lunch — and the Role Has Been Open for Three Months
Oklo's Aurora Powerhouse clears a key DOE safety milestone at Idaho National Laboratory, advancing the liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor toward operation while the company scales hiring across engineering, fuel recycling, and regulatory roles.
TSMC is spending $165 billion in the U.S. The most important roles aren't for chip designers — they're for the people who move machines into cleanrooms
TSMC, ASML, and imec demonstrated complementary 2D transistors on 300mm wafers using MoS₂ and EUV lithography, achieving 94% yield. This breakthrough signals a major shift in semiconductor hiring, favoring precursor chemistry, atomic-layer deposition, and defect metrology over traditional silicon pr
Radiant's Kaleidos Microreactor Is First in Line at Earth's Only Test Bed — and Six New Roles in Seven Days Show the Clock Is Already Ticking
On July 1, 2025, the Department of Energy conditionally selected Radiant alongside Westinghouse to conduct the first fueled microreactor experiments inside the DOME facility at Idaho National Laboratory. The test could begin as early as spring 2026. Radiant's Kaleidos Development Unit, a transportab
Eighteen Months Ago, 'Agent Engineer' Didn't Exist in European Job Postings. Sierra AI Now Has Five Open in London.
Sierra AI is building a full-scale European hub in London, hiring across engineering, product, sales, compliance, and operations. The company is recruiting multilingual talent in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English to deploy AI agents across European enterprises. With a $10
TSMC sent 200 interns into its Phoenix fab this summer. Most will get job offers. None of them will work on silicon.
TSMC's Arizona internship program grew to 200 students from 60 universities in 2025, fueling its $165B semiconductor campus. With fabs ramping up, internships are the primary hiring pipeline for thousands of engineers needed to staff advanced chip production in the US.
Sierra AI Pays Up to $390,000 for Engineers Who Never Write a Button — and 132 Open Roles Show the Enterprise UI Is Already Dead
Sierra AI closed a $950M Series E at a $15B valuation, reaching $150M ARR and 40% Fortune 50 penetration in under two years. Co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, the company is pushing conversational AI agents beyond customer support into sales, with its Ghostwriter product enabling agent creat
Navan's $923M IPO Is Fueling a Hidden Hiring Blitz in Tel Aviv — and the Roles Reveal a Company Rebuilding Around Self-Hosted AI
Navan's $923M IPO at $25/share values the AI-powered travel platform at $6.2B, marking the largest enterprise travel listing in years. The article explores its growth trajectory, Brazil expansion via Smartrips acquisition, and the engineering behind Navan Edge, its LLM-driven travel assistant.
Sierra AI hit a $15B valuation — and its job board shows the agent era has already split engineering into 20 new specialties
Sierra AI raised $950M at a $15B+ valuation, signaling investor belief that enterprise AI agents are a lasting software category. With $150M ARR, 40%+ Fortune 50 adoption, and rapid hiring, Sierra scales agent deployment via Ghostwriter—a platform turning customer experience into autonomous agent co
Legion Health Automates 95% of Psychiatric Admin Work — and Its Job Board Reveals What Autonomous Medicine Actually Requires
Legion Health became the first US company to win state authorization for AI to prescribe psychiatric medications. With $20M raised, $5M+ ARR, and 95% administrative automation, the YC-backed startup is scaling fast — hiring aggressively and building its own clinic infrastructure to power agentic car
Most AI Video Startups Are Hiring to Find a Market. Mirage Is Hiring Because It Already Has 20 Million Users and $28.4 Million in Revenue.
Mirage, formerly Captions, raised $75M in growth financing led by General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, bringing total funding past $175M. The New York-based company is pivoting from consumer video-editing app to AI foundation-model lab, with plans to expand into Asian markets and build generative
Anduril Added 160 Roles in Seven Days to Build AI Drone Wingmen the Air Force Just Put Into Production
On June 17, 2026, the U.S. Air Force awarded Anduril Industries and General Atomics production contracts for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, advancing semi-autonomous drone wingmen into full-scale manufacturing. The decision, four months ahead of schedule, signals a historic shift in defense procurem
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