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2,395 articles$20B Army Contract Spawns 200 Weekly Hires at $194K Median Pay
Anduril Industries' $20 billion Army contract marks a major shift in defense procurement, with rapid hiring and AI-driven autonomous systems challenging traditional defense primes.
Thales Alenia Space Hires 2,001 in 2025 for ESA's €862M Lunar Lander
Thales Alenia Space is hiring 2,001 roles in 2025 to staff ESA's €862 million Argonaut lunar lander. The company seeks engineers for propulsion, software, and mission-critical systems.
Hired 218 in 7 Days: What Thales Alenia Space Wants
Thales Alenia Space ramped up hiring in 2025, adding 218 roles in a week as part of major contracts. The company is seeking engineers for satellite programs across the US and Europe, emphasizing technical depth and systems thinking.
Thales Alenia Space Hires 2,000 as Space Economy Surpasses $570 Billion
Thales Alenia Space, a 67/33 joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, leads Europe's space initiatives in satellite manufacturing, navigation, and exploration. The company is hiring 2,000+ roles as demand for space technology grows.
Rappi Hires 15 in Brazil as Colombia fines it $1.09M over consumer violations
Rappi secures $25M Series F funding from Amazon to expand AI logistics, acquires Fountain9, partners with OpenAI, and plans Brazil expansion with R$1.4B investment.
Thales Alenia's 221 Weekly Adds Shrink to 66 for One Cause
Thales Alenia Space's live job board shows 66 open roles despite 221 added in a week. Analysis reveals focused, function-specific hiring in sales, engineering, and bid management, not mass surge. Strict ATS screening filters most applicants before human review, favoring space-systems domain skills.
No University Teaches This. Thales Alenia Space Posts 218 Roles in a Week for 2026 Servicing Demo
Thales Alenia Space leads the EROSS SC mission, Europe's first end-to-end demonstration of automated rendezvous and robotic satellite servicing. The €12M project validates capture, refuelling, and payload exchange, with a 2030 debris removal goal. A cross-disciplinary consortium and French hiring su
Thales Alenia rejects applicants missing one residency paper trail
Thales Alenia Space added about 220 roles in a week, focused on US engineering and sales. Candidates face strict UK security clearance and a subsidiary-specific hiring screen separate from Thales Group.
Airbus Plugs Into 5 Million Drone Sorties a Year — First Western Prime Inside Ukraine's Combat Loop
Airbus Defence and Space signs a strategic MoU with Ukraine's Brave1 battlefield innovation hub, becoming the first Western defence prime to integrate directly into the frontline co-testing loop. The partnership establishes joint task forces for loitering munitions beyond 40 km, electronic warfare,
Orbio's 6-Person Team Turns 20 TB/Day Into a $15B Methane Liability Feed
Orbio Earth, a Y Combinator S23 graduate, is hiring a founding product engineer to own and scale its methane monitoring platform. The remote-first role involves end-to-end responsibility for satellite data ingestion, ML detection, quantification APIs, and infrastructure. Orbio processes 10–20 TB of
Three Flights in 15 Months. Hiring for 12 a Year. Zero Reused Engines.
Blue Origin is hiring aggressively at two sites: Merritt Island for New Glenn avionics production and Kent for BE-4/BE-7 propulsion supporting both New Glenn and the Blue Moon lunar lander. The split reveals a dual-vehicle workforce strategy with distinct clocks — commercial launch cadence vs. NASA
Vulcan Boosters Tuesday, Sentinel Stages Thursday — Same Crew, Same Line
Northrop Grumman's Sentinel ICBM program restructuring and Congressional funding lock in multi-year demand. The company is investing over $1 billion to expand solid rocket motor capacity across four sites, targeting 25,000+ annual motor deliveries by 2029 for Sentinel, NGI, and GMD programs.
PE Owns 574 Autism Centers. Alpaca Launches 47 BCBA Owner Practices.
Alpaca Health is hiring 47 BCBAs to launch clinician-owned autism therapy practices via its 'Practice-In-A-Box' model, providing back-office support and guaranteed payouts while countering private equity consolidation that has acquired 574 centers since 2015.
Blue Origin Builds $600M Factory to Turn 3 Flights Into 60 a Year
Blue Origin announces a $600 million upper-stage factory (Project Horizon) at Cape Canaveral to produce 60 New Glenn upper stages annually by 2028, addressing a critical production bottleneck to meet Kuiper and NSSL launch contracts.
New Glenn Blast Grounds Orbital Reef's Only Launch Path
Sierra Space and NASA restructured their CRS-2 contract, reducing Dream Chaser ISS cargo flights to a single 2026 demo. The company appointed a new CFO and government relations chief, signaling a strategic pivot from spaceplane development to Orbital Reef commercial station operations and defense wo
Palantir Jumps 9% as Karp Labels Outsourced AI 'Effing Insane
Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns that frontier AI labs are overselling models while extracting enterprises' proprietary data. Palantir's Ontology platform and NVIDIA partnership offer a sovereign AI architecture that keeps data and model weights on-premise, driving 85% revenue growth and major defense c
1990s Hulls, 2030s AI Jamming: The Horizon Frigate Paradox
Thales and Elettronica formed the SIGEN consortium to modernize electronic warfare suites on four Horizon-class frigates, requiring a shared cross-border workforce and a shift to software-defined radio architecture.
89 Days to EU AI Act Enforcement — Mistral Hires First Regulatory-Grade Safety Deputy
Mistral AI is hiring a Deputy Director of Safety to build compliance infrastructure for the EU AI Act's phased deadlines (2025–2027), covering GPAI documentation, high-risk system conformity, systemic-risk duties, and physical security under NIS2 and ISO standards.
SpaceX Staffs First Mass-Production Rocket Factory: 288 Roles in Bastrop, Texas
SpaceX is aggressively hiring at Starbase and Bastrop to build Starship's first mass-production workforce, adding construction, test, supply chain, and automation roles across Texas facilities.
Paris ML Talent Builds Voice AI for Roofers Who Can't Answer.
Bravi, a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup building voice-AI agents for home-services SMBs, is hiring a Founding Engineer in Paris. The article examines why Paris attracts voice-AI talent, details Bravi's tech stack for handling calls on job sites, and highlights a growing YC batch trend toward vertica
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