What Separates a Strong Early Space Engineering Hire
Get your first few engineers wrong, and reaching your next funding round gets a lot harder. But the difference between a strong engineer and the...
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The #1 Reason Space Startups Lose Top Talent (It’s Not the Search)
Finding skilled talent is as much about what happens after the final interview as it is about finding the talent. When a hire takes longer...
Is Your Space Startup’s Hiring Function Built for Series B?
Most Series A space founders treat their hiring plan as a later problem. Something to sort out once there's enough headcount to justify it. It's...
What to Consider Before Relocating for a Space Role
Whether you're looking at Long Beach or Hawthorne, relocating for a space role can be career-defining. But this is different from your typical career move:...
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What Space Sector Candidates Ask About Before They’ll Even Take a Call
Something has shifted in how engineers in the US space sector evaluate opportunities, and it's happening before the first conversation...
The Space Force Just Added $4.4 Billion to Its Space Surveillance Program. Here’s What That Means for Hiring.
The Space Force just raised the contract ceiling for its Andromeda program from $1.8 billion to $6.2 billion. That's an...
How to Build a Cleared Engineering Team From Scratch in the Space Sector
When a commercial space company wins its first classified contract, the excitement doesn't last long. Pretty quickly, someone asks the...
$31 Billion in 30 Days: What Space and Defense Funding Tells Us About Who’s Hiring Next
In March 2026, the space and defense sector saw a concentration of capital that would have been unthinkable five years...
Starship V3 Launches Next Week. Here’s What It Means Beyond the Spectacle
SpaceX is aiming for May 19 for the first flight of Starship Version 3 - a bigger, more powerful version...
Hybrid, Remote, or On-Site: What Space Companies Are Actually Offering in 2026
There's a common assumption in the space sector: because the work involves hardware, everything is onsite. Candidates assume it. Companies...
The US Just Created a Licensing Path for Satellite Servicing, Debris Removal, and In-Space Manufacturing. Here’s What That Means for Hiring.
The Department of Commerce just released a draft licensing framework for commercial space activities that have never had a clear...
The Broadband Space Race Just Got a Second Lane – and It Needs Thousands of Engineers
Last week, an Ariane 6 rocket launched 32 Amazon Leo satellites into low Earth orbit from French Guiana. It was...
Golden Dome’s $3.2B Talent Bet: What Happens If Space-Based Interceptors Don’t Move Forward?
In the space of a few weeks, Golden Dome sent two very different messages. First, the Space Force handed $3.2 billion...