The Future of Space Depends on Today’s Junior Talent, and Hiring Managers Will Decide It
Space companies are hiring hand to mouth: filling this year's seats with people who already know the work. In the space industry, the talent pool...
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The Senior Space Engineer You Need Doesn’t Have the Title Yet
The primes have a promotion problem, and it's about to become your hiring advantage. In space, experience is hard to come by, but ability is...
How Space Startups Should Hire at Every Stage: From Seed to IPO
If you want to grow a successful space startup, you need to hire like you mean it. Who you hire, and how, will determine your...
What Is Asteroid Mining and Who Could Work in It?
Most people picture launch pads and mission control when they hear "careers in space exploration." But a new corner of the sector is hiring, and...
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Stop Counteroffering and Start Retaining Aerospace Engineers
A counteroffer can't undo the eighteen months that led to a resignation, but it can make an inevitable departure more...
Your First Sales Hire at Series A Isn’t What You’d Expect
At the Seed stage, your pitch deck was your product, and your passion was your sales strategy. You wore every...
Orbital Data Centers Are Creating a New Category of Space Jobs – Here’s Who’s Hiring in 2026
A five-month-old company with six employees just filed with the FCC to launch 100,000 satellites. Not communication satellites, not Earth observation...
The Impossible Space Hire: Is This What’s Holding You Back?
Is it really a talent shortage? Looking for specialized engineering talent? The impossible space hire might be what's holding founders back...
AST SpaceMobile Just Proved That Setbacks Don’t Define a Space Company
Yesterday at 2:39 AM, three AST SpaceMobile satellites launched successfully from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. BlueBirds...
What the Largest IPO Means for the Space Talent Market: Space X
On 12 June, SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, in the largest IPO in history. It...
Why Space Engineers Leave the Primes for Fast-Growth Companies
There's a move we're seeing a lot of right now: experienced engineers leaving the primes - the large, established players...
Why Space Companies Lose Their Best Candidates at the Offer Stage
A hiring process can do everything right and still lose. The role gets scoped well, the search runs clean, the...
The Hidden Space Talent Pool NASA’s Budget Fight Left Behind
For most of 2025, the question hanging over NASA was how deep the cuts would go. The administration's budget request...