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1,496 articlesHarvey's Mistral and Ansarada Deals Created Engineering Roles That Require Fluency in RAG Pipelines, Contract Lifecycles, and EU Data Law — All at Once
Harvey raised $760M across four rounds in 2025, surging from a $3B to $11B valuation. With 282 open roles and $100M+ ARR, the legal-AI startup is hiring aggressively across engineering, AI platform, and a new hybrid role: Legal Engineer.
Agility Shipped 150 Robots to Paying Customers. Tesla Shipped 150 to Itself. The Difference Is a Factory in Oregon Hiring at $186,000.
Agility Robotics is ramping up hiring at its RoboFab factory in Salem, Oregon, signaling a shift from construction to live production of Digit humanoid robots. Recent commercial deals with Mercado Libre and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada are driving demand for manufacturing, integration, and serv
Your City Isn't Toulouse or Cannes. It's Belfast — and Thales Is Hiring FPGA Engineers There Who Must Hold UK Clearance, Speak VHDL, and Coordinate Across Three Countries
Thales Alenia Space secured two major contracts at ILA Berlin 2026 — the EROSS SC orbital servicing mission and Copernicus Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellites — triggering a hiring surge of 247 roles in one week, with Belfast emerging as an unexpected European space talent hub.
Xona Put a Satellite in Orbit in June. It's Now Hiring FPGA Engineers Who Can Shape Navigation Signals That GPS Can't Match.
Xona Space Systems is building Pulsar, a LEO satellite constellation to fix GPS's weaknesses: weak signals and no authentication. With its first operational satellite in orbit, Xona is scaling fast — and hiring aggressively in Montreal and California.
Thales Is Hiring Mechanical Engineers Who Can Write Code and Software Engineers Who Understand Armor — at the Same Factory
At Eurosatory 2026, Thales Australia unveiled the Bushmaster 5.6 (Mulga), a utility variant adding counter-drone, electronic warfare, and strike capabilities to the proven armored platform. The launch signals a shift toward integrated ground vehicles that detect, communicate, and kill within a singl
ASML Added 42 Roles in One Week — and Almost None Are for Physicists
ASML is hiring hundreds of IT and PLM infrastructure roles, not just optical physicists, as Elon Musk's $119B Terafab chip project in Texas signals a shift toward digital backbone work for next-generation semiconductor megafactories.
North Korean Hackers Stole $2 Billion in Crypto in 2025. Elliptic's Newest Job Posting Pays Up to $290,000 to Stop Them.
Elliptic's $120M Series D, backed by Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank, and the British Business Bank, signals a structural shift as traditional institutions bet on blockchain analytics to underwrite compliance for the on-chain financial system. The article explores Elliptic's APAC hiring push in Singa
Europe committed €235 million to service satellites in orbit. The workforce to build that capability doesn't exist.
The Italian space agency has awarded a €235 million contract to a Thales Alenia Space-led consortium for an in-orbit servicing demonstration mission covering refuelling, repair, orbital transfer, and debris removal. The program is driving a hiring wave across Italy and France, exposing a critical sk
Boeing Is Doubling Satellite Output to 26 Deliveries in 2026. The Roles Making It Possible Don't Require an Aerospace Degree.
Boeing's Millennium Space Systems is doubling satellite output in 2026, building a production-line approach for mid-size satellites through its new Resolute platform — and quietly creating a wave of manufacturing and integration jobs the space industry has never staffed at scale.
Your Next Phone Will Toggle Between Cell Towers and Satellites Without You Noticing. The Engineers Who Can Build That Link Are Earning Premiums from San Jose to Singapore.
Skylo has built the world's largest commercial standards-based direct-to-device satellite network, enabling over a billion standard smartphones and IoT devices to connect via satellite without specialized hardware. Backed by $183M in funding and partnerships with Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, Qualcomm,
NASA Just Opened JPL's $30 Billion Management Contract to Competition for the First Time in 90 Years — and the Lab's 44 Open Roles Already Reveal Where It's Heading
NASA announced it will compete the management contract for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ending a sole-source relationship with Caltech dating back to 1958. The move is part of a broader agency realignment aimed at efficiency and faster execution. Caltech says it is prepared to compete. The article
Hermeus Hit Mach 1.21 in Under Three Months. The 5 Jobs It Just Posted Reveal What Comes Next.
Hermeus's Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 hit Mach 1.21 on its third test flight, becoming the world's first privately developed unmanned supersonic jet. The milestone triggered a shift from prototyping to manufacturing, with new production and airworthiness roles opening across Los Angeles, Atlanta, Jacksonvil
Sierra AI Has 115 Open Roles Across 10 Countries. The Ones That Matter Most Require Fluency in Arabic, Cantonese, or Thai — and Customer-Service Domain Knowledge.
Sierra AI's $15.8B valuation after a $950M Series E signals a massive hiring surge. The company is creating new roles like 'Agent Engineer' and 'Agent Operator' as it scales to serve over 40% of the Fortune 50.
China Controls 90% of Rare Earth Refining. The U.S. Just Posted 1,000 Jobs to Catch Up.
The U.S. government is shifting from restricting foreign mineral sourcing to actively building domestic and allied supply chains. This policy pivot is creating a surge in defense jobs focused on critical minerals, from geologists to smelter operators, as new legislation and executive orders reshape
The Aerospace Corporation Pays Up to $278,260 for RF Payload Analysts — and Competes Directly with SpaceX and Anduril for the Same Engineers
The Aerospace Corporation, the federally funded research and development center devoted to the U.S. space enterprise, is now competing directly with SpaceX, Anduril, and Boeing for RF payload analysts and other specialized engineers. As demand for space and defense talent surges, the FFRDC's expansi
Rocket Lab Is Building Solar Cells for Satellites in Albuquerque — and the Workers Who Make Them Need Skills From Two Separate Trades
Rocket Lab's Albuquerque facility produces radiation-hardened solar cells for spacecraft including the James Webb Space Telescope and Mars missions. With $23.9M in CHIPS Act funding and $25.5M in state incentives, the company is expanding compound semiconductor production by 50%, creating 100+ jobs
SpaceX Pays Up to $230,000 for Avionics Engineers in Hawthorne. Blue Origin's Huntsville Ceiling Is $194,783 — and the Work Is Entirely Different
Blue Origin is investing $71.4 million in Huntsville, Alabama, to build a large-scale thruster production facility, adding 105 specialized manufacturing and engineering jobs. The expansion supports BE-4 engine production for New Glenn and Vulcan Centaur, and positions Huntsville as Blue Origin's pro
SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60 Billion. The Three New Job Postings in Hawthorne Reveal What Musk Actually Plans to Do With It.
SpaceX's $60B acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor marks the opening act of a vertically integrated AI-factory strategy, not a simple tool purchase. The deal gives SpaceX distribution to millions of expert engineers, proprietary codebase integration, and a product retrainable on aerospace data. C
Psychiatrists Earn $375,000 at Talkiatry. ML Engineers Earn $165,000. The Company That Merged Both Roles Hasn't Named It Yet.
Talkiatry closed a $210M Series D in February 2026, bringing total capital past $400M. The company directly employs over 800 full-time psychiatrists and 300 therapists, betting that workforce, not just technology, is the product. With 87% of anxiety patients reporting symptom improvement and cost-of
The U.S. Gave Anduril $363 Million for Border Towers It Didn't Announce for Six Months. Anduril Already Delivered 40. The Supply-Chain Hiring Surge That Made It Possible Is Still Accelerating.
Anduril Industries is investing $1 billion in a 1.18 million-square-foot campus in Long Beach and Lakewood, California, set to open mid-2027 with 5,500 direct employees. The article also reveals a quiet supply-chain hiring surge at its Costa Mesa headquarters, where roles like Director of Supply Cha
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