Monthly ranking · October 2026

Fastest-Hiring Space Companies

Ranked by net open roles added between a company’s first and last job-board snapshot inside October 2026. Hiring is the least-gameable public signal a private space company emits: job counts move before press releases do. Site-wide, 11,161 roles were open at month end.

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Coverage change inside this month

Anduril's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Rocket Lab's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−4 postings). Vast's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). K2 Space's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−16 postings). Voyager Technologies now counts space-segment roles only (−132 postings of non-space work). Voyager Technologies's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). True Anomaly's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Ursa Major's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Spire Global's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−4 postings). HawkEye 360's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Outpost Space's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). GITAI's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Hubble Network's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Loft Orbital's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−3 postings). Array Labs's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). SpaceX no longer counts its xAI and X roles (−50 postings of AI data-center, AI-compute and X platform work). ICEYE's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−2 postings). Northwood Space's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Apex's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Lunar Outpost's talent pools and general applications are no longer counted as openings (−1 postings). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring.

Coverage change inside this month

25 employers joined the tracker (+667 postings: Fortastra, Constellr, Arinna, Constellation Space, NewOrbit, Helogen, Nebex, Foundational and 17 more). Leonardo's Telespazio roles are now counted under Telespazio (−19 postings for Leonardo). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring.

Coverage change inside this month

3 employers joined the tracker (+51 postings: GHGSat, NorthStar Earth & Space, ClearSpace). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring.

Coverage change inside this month

Slingshot Aerospace joined the tracker (+11 postings). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring.

Fastest-hiring space companies in October 2026
#	Company	Net added	Growth	Open roles	vs last month
Rank 1	SpaceX2026-10-05 → 2026-10-31	+175	+7%	2,820	Up 1 since the previous edition
Rank 2	Blue Origin2026-10-01 → 2026-10-30	+74	+4%	1,847	Unchanged from the previous edition
Rank 3	Relativity Space2026-10-01 → 2026-10-31	+69	+20%	410

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. Companies adding the same number of net roles share a rank, shown as =3; within a tie, rows are listed by percentage growth, then 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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