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1,496 articlesAdvanced 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.
SpaceX Is Hiring AI Engineers in Palo Alto to Run Models Inside Rocket Design — and the Salary Band Tells You How Serious Musk Is
SpaceX is hiring AI inference engineers in Palo Alto, far from its Hawthorne headquarters. The role pays $135K–$160K and signals SpaceX's growing software ambitions beyond rocket hardware.
AI Agents Fail Not Because the Models Break but Because the Systems Around Them Do. Temporal Just Raised $300M to Fix That — and It's Hiring 12 Roles a Week to Do It.
Temporal raised $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, doubling its prior valuation. The company's durable execution engine solves reliability challenges in agentic AI workflows, with OpenAI, Netflix, and JPMorgan among its customers.
Stepful's Platform Has Graduated 32,000 Health Workers — and Now It's Hiring Them as Instructors
Stepful raised $55M in Series C funding to tackle healthcare's staffing crisis by treating it as a supply problem. The AI-powered platform trains practice-ready workers faster than traditional pipelines, with 32,000+ graduates placed and major health systems like Mount Sinai and Providence as client
Blue Origin Plans to Build 60 Rocket Stages a Year. It Has Completed Eight.
Blue Origin added 116 roles in the past seven days, outpacing SpaceX's 98 and NASA's 11 over the same period. The listings reveal a company staffing for reusability and production scaling, not damage control. Key roles include a BE-4 engine recovery stage engineer, manufacturing engineers for engine
The EXIM Bank's Largest 'Make More in America' Loan Ever Went to a 170-Person Satellite Startup. Its Hiring Spree Explains Why.
CesiumAstro closed $470M in equity and debt financing, including the largest deal under EXIM Bank's Make More in America initiative. The Texas-based satellite manufacturer is building a 270,000 sq ft facility, creating 500+ jobs, and scaling production of software-defined phased-array spacecraft and
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Announced a Satellite Joint Venture. SpaceX's Response Was a Hiring Blitz.
SpaceX is recruiting RAN-integration engineers in Redmond, WA, to bridge Starlink's satellite constellation with terrestrial LTE and 5G networks. The role demands rare expertise in both 3GPP cellular standards and LEO-satellite communications, with salaries ranging from $125,000 to $185,000.
ASML Spent ₩240 Billion on a Campus That Doesn't Make Chips — and It's Still the Smartest Bet in Semiconductors
ASML's new Hwaseong campus in South Korea is a strategic ecosystem play, not a production facility. With 1,500 employees, on-site EUV/DUV remanufacturing, advanced training, and deep partnerships with Samsung and SK hynix, ASML is embedding itself into Korea's semiconductor supply chain to lock in l
Arsenal-1 Will Produce AI-Piloted Drones, Interceptor Missiles, and Cruise Missiles on the Same Production Line — a Model the Pentagon Is Betting $1 Billion On
Anduril Industries will build Arsenal-1, a five-million-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Pickaway County, Ohio, creating over 4,000 direct jobs by 2035. The $900M+ project will produce autonomous defense systems including the YFQ-44A Fury collaborative combat aircraft, Roadrunner inter
Your Next FP&A Tool Won't Come From Anaplan or Workday. It's Being Built in Madrid by a Startup That Added 16 Roles This Week.
Abacum closed a $60 million Series B to fuel hiring and product expansion in the AI-native FP&A space. The Madrid-born startup's partnership with Maxio and aggressive go-to-market hiring signal a push to challenge legacy planning tools, while Madrid's emergence as a fintech talent hub gives Abacum a
NASA Picked a Rocket Company With No Orbital Record to Reach Mars. The 27 Jobs It Just Posted Reveal Why.
NASA partners with Relativity Space for the 2028 Aeolus Mars orbiter mission, marking a milestone for 3D-printed rockets and interplanetary exploration.
ASML's Backlog Hit €38.8 Billion. The Bottleneck Isn't Machines — It's the PLM Engineers and IT Architects Who Wire Them Together
SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI's Terafab project aims to produce one terawatt of AI compute annually from a Texas facility complex. With costs up to $119 billion, Intel as foundry partner, and ASML as a critical equipment supplier, the project could reshape the global semiconductor landscape.
The Navy Needs SPY-6 Radars on 50 Ships. Raytheon Has Them on 12 — and Its Rhode Island Factory Is Where the Catch-Up Happens.
Raytheon's $515M SPY-6 radar contract and $100M facility expansion in Rhode Island are driving a major hiring surge across engineering and technical disciplines, with hundreds of open roles in radar systems, naval integration, and manufacturing.
The Air Force Just Gave Anduril a Production Contract. The Engineers It Needs in Colorado Must Master Sensor Fusion, Python, and Field-Tested Autonomy — All at Once.
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. The decision covers at least 150 CCA airframes across three production lot
**McKinsey Invested $4 Billion in a Company That Competes With McKinsey — and OpenAI Is the Reason**
OpenAI launched DeployCo, a standalone subsidiary backed by over $4 billion, embedding its engineers inside enterprises to build production AI systems. Modeled on Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineer approach, it acquires Tomoro's 150 engineers and deploys exclusively on OpenAI models.
Commure Raised $70M at a $7B Valuation. The Engineers It's Hiring in Mountain View Must Master Both Clinical AI and Hospital Billing.
Commure raised $70M at a $7B valuation to target the $1T U.S. healthcare administrative cost pool. With $200M in FY2025 revenue, 85% autonomous revenue cycle execution, and a platform spanning 500+ organizations, the company is scaling its agentic AI layer and expanding globally.
The Best-Paid Engineers in Defense Tech Never Touch a Weapon
General Motors and Lockheed Martin's 2026 collaboration is creating a new category of defense-manufacturing jobs that require fluency in both automotive EV systems and military platforms. Fort Worth emerges as the epicenter, with 32 open GM Defense positions and a newly ratified union contract signa
Anduril's $20 Billion Pentagon Contract Needs 2,000 People. The Ones Building the Factory in Rhode Island Start at $143,000.
Anduril Industries closed a $5 billion Series H round in May 2026, doubling its valuation to $61 billion. The capital will fund Arsenal-1, a high-volume production facility in Ohio, as the company scales manufacturing of autonomous defense systems and pursues aggressive hiring across the U.S.
Thales Alenia Space Added 236 Roles in Seven Days — and San Jose Is Where the Satellite Software Work Is Landing
Thales Alenia Space is hiring aggressively across three major programs — ESA's Celeste LEO navigation demonstrator, Copernicus Sentinel-1 Next Generation radar imaging, and Poland's defense telecom satellite. The surge is driving US recruitment in San Jose and Roma, Texas, targeting RF engineers, sy
Over 7,000 Satellites Are in Orbit. The Ground Stations That Make Them Work Are Why SpaceX Just Posted 11 Jobs on One Redmond Street.
SpaceX's Redmond campus is quietly ramping up hiring for power electronics and facilities engineering roles tied to Starlink ground infrastructure, signaling a major push to scale the network's ground segment alongside its growing satellite constellation.
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