Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products and drugs in space for terrestrial applications.
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Open Positions at Varda Space (86 Jobs)
86 open · 205 filled
Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products and drugs in space for terrestrial applications.
86 open · 205 filled
Varda Space Industries completed its sixth successful reentry with the W-6 mission, landing a capsule at Koonibba Test Range in South Australia. The mission carried payloads from Rhea Space Activity, Sandia National Laboratory, and NASA Ames, funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Prometheus
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Varda Space Industries closed a $187 million Series C round on July 10, 2025, bringing total capital raised to $329 million. The El Segundo-based startup plans to use the funds to increase launch cadence toward monthly missions and expand its new 10,000-square-foot biologics lab for crystallizing ph
Varda Space Industries raised $187M in Series C funding, bringing total capital to $329M, to scale orbital pharmaceutical manufacturing. With an FAA reentry license, a collaboration with United Therapeutics, and a production hub in El Segundo, Varda is moving from demonstration missions to repeatabl
The space sector is creating thousands of new roles—orbital servicing technicians, in-space manufacturing specialists, lunar logistics planners—yet still recruits from the same narrow talent pools. Judith Delany's SpaceWatchGL opinion piece argues the industry's conservative hiring practices are bli