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1,495 articlesASML Is Hiring 1,000 People in Taiwan This Year — and Every One of Them Will Work Inside TSMC's Fabs
ASML is hiring 1,000 additional employees in Taiwan in 2025, a 20%+ headcount increase driven by surging demand from TSMC's advanced chip roadmap, including N2 nodes, High-NA EUV adoption, and 2D-material transistor development.
TSMC, ASML, and imec Just Fabricated 2D Transistors on a Full 300mm Wafer. The Hiring War to Manufacture Them Is Already Underway in Phoenix.
Imec, ASML, and TSMC have jointly demonstrated complementary 2D-material transistors on a full 300mm wafer at 50nm gate pitch — a first that moves atomically thin channels from lab curiosity toward manufacturable reality, signaling a potential post-silicon future for sub-2nm CMOS logic.
An AI agent can buy from a million Shopify stores without a human clicking checkout. The legal framework is from 1986.
Wildcard, founded in 2025 by Kaushik Mahorker and Yagnya Patel, raised $500K from YC to build an agentic API gateway using its open-source agents.json format. It also runs an AEO/GEO analytics platform for e-commerce brands and enables instant checkout via Agentic Commerce Protocol.
Everlaw Is Hiring 33 People to Build the AI Stack That Stops Lawyers From Getting Sanctioned
Everlaw launched EverlawAI Deep Dive in October 2025, a generative AI tool that lets legal teams ask natural-language questions across document collections and get citation-backed answers in seconds. Built on retrieval-augmented generation, it runs on the user's own data and avoids hallucinations by
Utah let an AI prescribe Prozac without a doctor. Legion Health's hiring spree shows what comes next.
Legion Health has crossed $5M in annual recurring revenue and raised over $20M, signaling real demand for AI-native psychiatric care. The company automates 95% of administrative work and became the first to receive regulatory authorization for an AI system to prescribe psychiatric medications, initi
A 139-Person Startup Is Training Foundation Models on TikToks to Replace the Entire Camera-to-Timeline Workflow
Mirage, formerly Captions, raised $75M to replace the camera-to-timeline production workflow with a single AI system. The company is hiring ML engineers for its generative video team in NYC, with salaries ranging from $175K to $275K.
AIM's Ouster Lidar Deal Looks Like a Supply Agreement. The Engineering Requirements Buried in It Are Actually a 21-Person Recruiting Blueprint.
AIM Intelligent Machines raised $50M in June 2025 with a clear mission: convert venture capital into engineers as fast as possible. The Redmond startup retrofits heavy equipment with plug-and-play autonomy, targeting mining and construction sites. With 21 open roles and a strategic lidar deal with O
SpaceX Reuses Boosters for a Decade. Blue Origin Just Hired Its First Refurbishment Engineer.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test on May 28, 2026, destroying pad infrastructure and exposing deep structural failures in its reusability program. Despite the setback, the company is aggressively hiring test and refurbishment engineers to fix the issues and resume lau
DO-178C Was Written for Deterministic Code. Shield AI Is Using It to Certify a Neural Network to Fly Alongside Manned Fighters.
Shield AI's June 2026 U.S. Air Force production contract for Hivemind mission autonomy software marks a pivotal shift from prototype to industrial-scale delivery. The award positions the company as a production-grade software supplier across the Collaborative Combat Aircraft ecosystem, with 18 new h
SpaceX Spent $15 Billion on Starship and Flew Five Flights. Now It's Hiring the Engineers Who Keep Factories From Breaking.
SpaceX's Starship program faces a critical bottleneck: scaling factory production to meet ambitious launch cadence targets. While Falcon 9 achieves rapid reuse, Starship's complexity demands new industrial engineering roles focused on equipment reliability, maintenance, and high-rate manufacturing i
Relativity Space Has Never Reached Orbit. NASA Just Handed It a Mars Mission — and 17 New Job Postings in Seven Days Show the Clock Is Already Ticking
NASA selected Relativity Space to design and launch a Mars orbiter carrying the Aeolus atmospheric instrument suite on Terran R in late 2028. The mission anchors Relativity's Interplanetary Sciences Program, backed by Eric Schmidt's leadership and capital. Meanwhile, Long Beach has emerged as an add
The Air Force Just Awarded Its First Fighter Contract to a New Company Since the 1970s. Anduril's Hiring Data Shows How Hard It Will Be to Deliver.
The U.S. Air Force awarded production contracts to Anduril Industries and General Atomics for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, marking the first time since the 1970s a new company has won a fighter aircraft program. Anduril's FQ-44A will enter production alongside General Atomics' FQ-42A,
The 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.
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