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1,495 articlesA Ground-Station Startup in Torrance Is Paying $220,000 for Security Engineers Who Understand Both Kubernetes and TS/SCI Clearances — and 96 People Applied in Two Days
Northwood Space secured $149.8M in funding and a U.S. Space Force contract to modernize satellite ground infrastructure with its Portal phased-array system, scaling production and global deployment.
Cerebras Has 98 Open Positions and a $20 Billion OpenAI Contract. The Engineers It Needs Already Work for Nvidia.
Cerebras Systems' S-1 filing reveals a company that has reoriented around AI inference, anchored by a $20B+ OpenAI deal for 750MW of low-latency capacity. With $510M revenue, first profitable year, and a $56.4B IPO valuation, the wafer-scale chipmaker is betting inference economics beat Nvidia at it
The U.S. Navy burned 150 SM-6s in the Middle East. Northrop Grumman plans to build 25,000 rocket motors a year. The math only works if 1,200 people show up in Box Elder County.
Northrop Grumman says it can nearly double solid-rocket motor production to 25,000 annually by 2029, backed by over $1 billion in capacity investment and 10 million square feet of manufacturing space. But a surge in hiring across propulsion engineering, supply chain, and production roles reveals tha
Boeing Is Paying Up to $287,500 for Engineers Who Can Put Quantum Encryption on a Satellite — and the Roles Don't Say 'Quantum' Anywhere
Boeing's Q4S satellite system has demonstrated high-fidelity entanglement swapping in ground testing, marking a key step toward space-based quantum networking. The mission, set to launch in 2027, is driving significant hiring at Boeing's El Segundo campus, with over 150 open engineering and systems
A Nobel Laureate Left Google for Anthropic. The 23 Roles Added This Week Explain Why.
John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold and 2024 Nobel laureate, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic. His move, alongside Noam Shazeer's exit to OpenAI, signals a shift in AI talent. Anthropic's aggressive hiring in developer productivity and infrastructure reveals its next major platform ambitions.
Thales Is Hiring 8,000 Engineers to Build Software-Defined Weapons. The Pentagon's Own Workforce Plan Says It Can't Fill Those Roles Itself.
Thales plans to hire 8,000 people globally in 2025, with 40% in engineering roles spanning software, cybersecurity, AI, and data science. The shift reflects a strategic pivot toward software-defined defence platforms and autonomous systems, supported by internal mobility and 35 specialized training
A Rocket Exploded in May. Blue Origin's Response Was a Hiring Surge in Alabama.
Blue Origin is investing $71.4 million to expand its Huntsville operations, adding 105 jobs and scaling production of BE-4 and BE-3U rocket engines. The move taps into Alabama’s growing propulsion talent hub and supports demand from ULA’s Vulcan and Blue Origin’s New Glenn programs.
Anduril doubled its valuation to $61 billion — and 157 new job postings in one week show where the money is going
Anduril Industries raised $5B in Series H funding, doubling its valuation to $61B and accelerating production of autonomous defense systems. With dual CCA contracts awarded alongside General Atomics, demand surges for software engineers and C2 integrators. Ohio emerges as a hub for drone-defense man
The Pentagon Gave Rocket Lab $816 Million for 18 Satellites. Lockheed, Northrop, and L3Harris Are Buying Rocket Lab's Sensors for Theirs.
Rocket Lab's 2025 Preliminary Design Review win unlocked a $515M SDA satellite contract, triggering vertical integration, Nasdaq-100 inclusion, and a 330+ role hiring surge across defense, Neutron rocket development, and production scaling.
OpenAI Has 700 Million Users. Mistral Has 1% Enterprise Adoption and a Zero-Percent Switch Rate.
Mistral AI is expanding into Montreal, hiring its first Canadian employees to build a deployment and services layer around its open-source models. The move targets bilingual AI talent, Quebec's French-speaking enterprise sectors, and favorable tax incentives.
The Air Force Split the Drone Into a Body and a Brain. Two Companies Are Hiring for the Same Engineers.
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a $20 billion enterprise contract for its AI-driven Lattice platform to serve as the central counter-drone command-and-control backbone. The deal consolidates over 120 procurement actions, accelerates software-driven defense acquisition, and drives major expa
Thales is hiring FPGA engineers faster than propulsion engineers — and a defense sonar contract is paying the bill
Thales Alenia Space added 229 open roles in a single week, signaling structural growth in Europe's space sector driven by the Sentinel-1 NG Copernicus contract and a new Orbit Fab refueling partnership. The hiring surge spans FPGA development, embedded software, cybersecurity, and orbital-servicing
The 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.
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