Good morning,
Drones (and counter drones) are the name of the game this week!
Europe on the board! Cambridge Aerospace raised $300M Series C at a $3.4B post-money this week, led by DFJ Growth with Lux, Accel, Lakestar, and Elad Gil participating. The British startup builds low-cost interceptors for drones and cruise missiles — the whole pitch being that $500 drones shouldn’t have to be met with $2M missiles. Nearly 50 open roles available.
Similar thesis, smaller check: Aurelius Systems took a $40M Series A co-led by Draper Associates and KAS to scale Archimedes, its autonomous laser c-UAS platform. Aurelius is currently just 19 people but has 16 roles open and a stated plan to double headcount by year-end.
Atlas Motion came out of stealth with $11.5M from Greycroft, building motors and actuators for drones and defense platforms. Hiring still TBD.
And we can’t close out the lede without mentioning manufacturing rockstar Hadrian, which closed $1.37B at a $7.87B valuation on Thursday, its second raise in 13 months. Wunderkind Chris Power has 132 open roles for the factory-curious.
This week’s board skews heavily toward manufacturing and production engineering. If you have been on the fence about a factory-floor role at a venture-backed company, this is the week to look.
Now, onto the jobs…
Featured Job: if you are an experienced Forward-Deployed Engineer who has hacked it at the highest levels and is now looking to be employee #1 in a career-defining role with a heroic founder in the Special Operations, reach out with your resume. Must be technical. Don’t kid yourself!
📈 Growth Family Jobs (BD, Sales, Contracting)
CesiumAstro (phased arrays) - Director of Business Development - Austin, TX
Muon Space (LEO satellites) - Director, Business Development - Washington, DC / Virginia
NODA AI (autonomy orchestration) - Business Development Manager, Special Operations / Senior Integrated Marketing Manager - Austin, TX
Rainmaker (cloud seeding) - Director of Business Development - Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
Sierra Space (space infrastructure) - Director, Business Development (Clearance Required) - Louisville, CO
Swift Navigation (precise positioning) - Senior Manager Business Development New Markets - San Francisco, CA
Veilant (signature management) - Solutions Engineer - Tysons, VA
📋 Strategy & Ops Family Jobs (Biz Ops, People, CoS, Finance)
Anduril (autonomy) - Associate Director, International Project Logistics - Costa Mesa, CA / Ashville, OH
Blue Origin (space launch) - Sr. Manager, National Security Space Policy - Arlington, VA
Chaos Industries (sensing systems) - Contracts & Legal Operations Specialist - El Segundo, CA
Defense Unicorns (secure software delivery) - Director Of Space Operations - Remote
Muon Space (LEO satellites) - Mission Execution Chief of Staff - San Jose, CA
NODA AI (autonomy orchestration) - Contracts Manager - Austin, TX
Saronic (autonomous surface vessels) - Senior Security Operations Analyst - Austin, TX / San Diego, CA
Zoox (autonomous vehicles) - Manager, City Operations - Miami, FL
🏗️ Product Family Jobs (Product, Program, Success)
Anduril (autonomy) - Senior Program Manager, Launched Effects - Atlanta, GA
Apptronik (advanced robotics) - Senior Product Manager, Hardware Platform - Austin, TX
Genlogs (freight intelligence) - Scaled Customer Success Manager - Richmond, VA / Washington, DC / Atlanta, GA
Infleqtion (quantum technology) - Director, Manufacturing and Program Development Operations - Louisville, CO
Overland AI (ground autonomy) - Senior Program Manager - Seattle, WA
Scale AI (AI data platform) - Senior AI Product Manager, Cybersecurity - New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
Sierra Space (space infrastructure) - Sr Director, Production Operations - Satellite and Spacecrafts - Louisville, CO
🔨 Engineering - Hardware
Castelion (low-cost strike weapons) - Lead Manufacturing Engineer - Avionics - Torrance, CA
CesiumAstro (phased arrays) - Senior RF Test Engineer II - Westminster, CO
Epirus (directed energy) - Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering - Torrance, CA
Formlabs (3D printing) - Senior Mechanical Engineer - Boston, MA / Somerville, MA
Hgen (clean hydrogen) - Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
K2 Space (large satellites) - Senior Fluids Manufacturing Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
Radiant (microreactors) - Senior Mechanical Engineer (Structures) - El Segundo, CA
🧑💻 Engineering - Software
Applied Intuition (autonomy) - Lead Software Engineer, Physical AI (Defense) - Arlington, VA
Chaos Industries (sensing systems) - Staff Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA
Forterra (ground autonomy) - Director of DevOps and Tooling - Clarksburg, MD
Hadrian (manufacturing automation) - Data Platform Engineer / ML Platform Engineer - Los Angeles, CA
NODA AI (autonomy orchestration) - Senior Full Stack Engineer - Austin, TX
Overland AI (ground autonomy) - Director of Software Engineering, Behaviors and Planning - Seattle, WA
Varda Space Industries (in-space manufacturing) - Senior Flight Software Engineer, C++ - El Segundo, CA
📝 Internships
Varda and SpaceX both dropped big 2027 classes this week. Some highlights:
Varda Space Industries (in-space manufacturing) - all in El Segundo, CA:
SpaceX (space launch) - Spring 2027 classes:
Business Operations Internship/Co-op - Brownsville, TX / Cape Canaveral, FL / Hawthorne, CA
Civil/Structural Engineering Internship - Hawthorne, CA / Cape Canaveral, FL / Starbase, TX
Engineering Internship/Co-op - Brownsville, TX
Everyone else:
E-Space (space IoT) - Engineering / Characterization Lab Intern - Arlington, TX
Formlabs (3D printing) - Social Media Engineering Intern (Fall) - Somerville, MA
Impulse Space (in-space mobility) - Avionics Manufacturing Engineering Intern (Fall) - Redondo Beach, CA
Rainmaker (cloud seeding) - Mechanical Engineering Intern (Fall) - El Segundo, CA
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