Aerospace startups hiring now

Shield AI

San Diego, US · Series G

Shield AI is a defense technology company that develops AI pilots for aircraft, drones, ships, and satellites. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.

513 open roles5% remote

CesiumAstro

Austin, US · Series C

CesiumAstro provides full-stack infrastructure for agile space communications. The company designs, manufactures, and tests communication systems and satellites in U.S. facilities. Its products enable connectivity between satellites, drones, planes, cars, and other mobile devices. CesiumAstro delivers next-generation systems that connect, detect, and defend across commercial, government, and national security missions.

270 open roles0% remote

Relativity Space

Long Beach, US · YC W16

Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets.

231 open roles6% remote

The Aerospace Corporation

Chantilly, US

The Aerospace Corporation provides aerospace engineering, research, and technical services to government and defense organizations.

210 open roles2% remote

NewSpace Research and Technologies

NewSpace Research and Technologies is an aerospace and defence R&D company that aims to create unmanned aerospace systems from India. It develops programs in next-generation missions and technologies for military and civilian use by Indian government bodies. Its products include the BELUGA hybrid multi-rotor long-endurance UAV, the NIMBUS multi-purpose electric UAV and the MACKEREL loitering munition. It specialises in drone technology.

122 open roles0% remote

Maxar

westminster, US · Private Equity

Maxar provides advanced space technology solutions, including geospatial intelligence and manufacturing space systems. The company delivers high-resolution satellite imagery, digital basemaps, and 3D datasets through its Vivid and Precision3D platforms.

107 open roles34% remote

Apex Technology, Inc.

Los Angeles, US · Series C

Apex manufactures commercial-off-the-shelf satellite buses at scale using software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing. Its productized bus platforms increase reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate mission timelines.

105 open roles0% remote

Axiom Space

Houston, US · Series D

Axiom Space is the leading provider of human spaceflight services and developer of human-rated space infrastructure.

78 open roles10% remote

Divergent Technologies

Torrance, US · Series E

Divergent has created the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS), an end-to-end software-hardware production system for industrial digital manufacturing. DAPS uses in-house developed AI-driven generative design software to computationally engineer structures, additive manufacturing to materialize them, and automated fixtureless assembly to create large multi-part assemblies. The company supplies the automotive, aerospace, and defense industries as a certified Tier 1 supplier.

71 open roles1% remote

Re:Build Manufacturing

framingham, US

Re:Build Manufacturing integrates design, engineering, and manufacturing to deliver complex, multi-technology products from concept through full-rate production. Its primary markets are aerospace and defense, energy and electrification, medical, and robotics and automation.

64 open roles10% remote

Hermeus

El Segundo, US · Series C

Hermeus is a defense aviation company that designs, builds, and tests high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft. Its current Quarterhorse program is actively unlocking unmanned high-speed flight.

64 open roles0% remote

Northwood Space

Los Angeles, US · Series B

Northwood builds a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions. Its core product is a production-ready, fully digital phased array antenna system named Portal.

60 open roles0% remote

Loft Orbital

San Francisco, US · Series C

Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit. The company integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, and national security missions.

60 open roles5% remote

Isar Aerospace

Ottobrunn, DE · Series D

Isar Aerospace develops and builds launch vehicles for transporting small and medium-sized satellites and satellite constellations into Earth's orbit. The company is developing Spectrum, a two-stage, liquid-fueled rocket designed to launch 1,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit.

54 open roles0% remote

Stratolaunch

Mojave, US · Private Equity

Stratolaunch is a leading pure-play hypersonics company focused on the design, manufacture and operation of advanced aerospace systems for national security. The company enables faster, more affordable and more realistic hypersonic development through an autonomous, reusable, air-launched flight test platform and a growing portfolio of hypersonic target and mission-system offerings.

52 open roles4% remote

Reliable Robotics Corporation

Mountain View, US · Series D

The system is designed to work on any aircraft and in any airspace to enable fully automated aircraft operation.

51 open roles53% remote

Ursa Major

Berthoud, US

Ursa Major delivers flight-proven systems for hypersonics, solid rocket motors, and space mobility. The company builds high-performance systems for all domains: land, sea, air, and space.

50 open roles44% remote

Xona Space Systems

Burlingame, US · Series B

Xona is developing Pulsar, a commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite navigation service designed as a high-precision, resilient alternative to GPS. The PULSAR service will be delivered through a constellation of commercial LEO satellites, offering a new standard in accuracy and security.

39 open roles0% remote

Sift

El Segundo, US · Series B

Sift is a unified observability platform for mission-critical hardware that ingests, stores, and analyzes telemetry at scale. Sift automatically transforms raw sensor data into structured, queryable data that both engineers and AI systems can work with.

35 open roles0% remote

Fuse

San Leandro, US

Fuse delivers pulsed-power systems to accelerate the world's transition to fusion. Customers span defense, energy, and aerospace. Fuse is also developing a fusion generator able to deliver clean energy.

35 open roles0% remote

AeroVect

San Francisco, US · Seed

AeroVect develops autonomous systems for airport ground support equipment. The company provides the AeroVect Driver, a platform that enables tractors and other vehicles used in cargo and baggage handling to operate without a human driver.

35 open roles68% remote

Nominal

Los Angeles, US · Series B

Nominal provides a connected test and operations platform for hardware engineering teams. Its products, Nominal Core and Nominal Connect, help teams manage, monitor, analyze, and automate test data and operations.

32 open roles0% remote

EnduroSat

Sofia, BG · Series B

EnduroSat designs, builds, and operates CubeSats and nanosatellites for commercial, governmental, and scientific missions. The company streamlines space missions in LEO and beyond, handling every step from mission design to launch and operations.

32 open roles56% remote

Swarm Aero

Oxnard, US · Series A

Swarm Aero builds large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms for defense and missions. The company develops the first UAV designed from the ground up for swarming and the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets.

31 open roles36% remote

Array Labs

Redwood City, US · Series A

Array Labs designs and operates space-based radar systems and delivers 3D Earth imagery and geospatial data services. The company is developing a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create high-resolution 3D data products of the Earth at unprecedented scale, speed, and reliability.

30 open roles0% remote

Aalyria

Livermore, US · Series B

Aalyria develops network orchestration software and optical communication technologies for space and terrestrial connectivity. It offers Spacetime, a managed PaaS for developers to orchestrate networks in motion, and Tightbeam, a laser-based communication technology for high-bandwidth data transmission.

30 open roles70% remote

Amca

El Segundo, US · Series B

Amca rapidly develops and manufactures critical aerospace and defense components. The company combines engineering, qualification testing, technical data development, and certified manufacturing capacity into a single integrated platform.

29 open roles0% remote

Venturi Astrolab

Hawthorne, US

Venturi Astrolab (Astrolab) designs, builds, and operates a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers.

28 open roles18% remote

Air Space Intelligence

Boston, US · Series B

Air Space Intelligence (ASI) is a dual-use software company that deploys predictive AI to complex operating environments. Its first product, Flyways AI, is an AI-powered air operations platform for airspace surveillance, flight monitoring and optimization.

27 open roles14% remote

Cambridge Aerospace

Cambridge, GB · Series C

Cambridge Aerospace develops low-cost interceptor systems for drones, cruise missiles, and other aerial threats. Its products include Skyhammer, a modular interceptor designed for drones and cruise missiles, and Starhammer, a high-speed interceptor for higher-value missile threats.

26 open roles4% remote