Fastest-Hiring Space Companies

Ranked by net open roles added between a company’s first and last job-board snapshot inside September 2026. Hiring is the least-gameable public signal a private space company emits: job counts move before press releases do. Site-wide, 9,905 roles were open at month end.

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Coverage change inside this month

Blue Origin’s Workday board joined the tracker (+≈1,590 postings). Totals jump on this date reflects expanded coverage, not market hiring.

Coverage change inside this month

35 employers joined the tracker (+1,834 postings: Inversion Space, Isar Aerospace, Spire Global, Katalyst Space, AST SpaceMobile, LeoLabs, BlackSky, HawkEye 360 and 27 more). Anduril now counts space-segment roles only (−2,252 postings of non-space work). Hermeus now counts space-segment roles only (−85 postings of non-space work). Hadrian now counts space-segment roles only (−143 postings of non-space work). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring.

Coverage change inside this month

11 employers joined the tracker (+1,192 postings: Leonardo, Leidos, Boeing, KBR, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Northrop Grumman, Axiom Space, Sierra Space and 3 more). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring.

Fastest-hiring space companies in September 2026
#	Company	Net added	Growth	Open roles	vs last month
1	Blue Origin2026-09-01 → 2026-09-30	+1,759	+35180%	1,764	New entry
2	SpaceX2026-09-01 → 2026-09-30	+365	+16%	2,610	Down 1 since the previous edition
3	AST SpaceMobile2026-09-01 → 2026-09-30	+234	+23400%	235	New entry
4	Impulse Space

Methodology

Built from SpaceNexus’s daily snapshot of live job postings across tracked space-company applicant-tracking systems. Every company’s open-role count is recorded once a day.
A company’s monthly figure is the change between its FIRST and LAST snapshot inside the calendar month: net roles added, not gross postings, so a company that opened and filled ten roles in the month does not appear to have grown.
Only companies holding at least five open roles at the end of the month are ranked, and only companies with at least two snapshots inside the month: below that, a two-role swing is noise rather than a hiring signal, and a single snapshot has no change to measure.
Ranking is by net roles added, descending. Ties break on percentage growth, then on company name (A–Z). Each edition publishes the qualifying gainers carried by that month’s Hiring Index (up to eight).
Coverage changes are flagged, not hidden: when a company’s board newly joins the tracker inside a month, its first snapshot is the day we started watching it, so its apparent growth is coverage rather than hiring. Any coverage change falling inside the month is named on the page.

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Every figure here is arithmetic over our own rows (counts, sums, deltas and rankings), and the page and its export are built by the same code, so they cannot disagree. How this edition is computed

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