AstroTalent
Talent intelligence for space

The intelligence and sourcing engine that decides who gets to orbit, on time.

In space the technology is not the differentiator. The people are, and they barely exist. This is the live map of who is building in the sector and where the specialist talent runs thinnest, read daily from public hiring. Click any company for its live hiring profile. Talk to us about your market →

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· ● N. America ● Europe
I Where the demand concentrates

The market is not short of engineers. It is short of the right ones.

Live open engineering roles across the tracked sector, grouped by discipline, and the geographic clusters where hiring concentrates. The scarcest pool is marked. Click any company on the map for its full hiring profile.

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Open roles by discipline
Reading it. The marked row is the scarcest specialism, the pool small enough to count. Volume job boards rarely reach it. That is the seat we are built to fill.
Hiring clusters
The market in numbers

Eight disciplines, very different depth of bench.

Open engineering roles across the tracked sector, and how many companies are competing for each specialism. The scarcer the pool, the less a job board can do for you.

Share of open roles by discipline
Companies hiring, by discipline
Our taxonomy

The specialist map of space engineering talent.

Our proprietary taxonomy of the North America talent market, graded by how thin the specialist bench runs. The scarcer the band, the more a hire depends on reaching people no advert reaches.

Very scarce Scarce Moderate Deeper bench
Space Systems · 5 seats▾
LunarVery scarceLaunchScarceGNC/AOCSModerateSpacecraftDeeper benchMission (inc. SatOps)Deeper bench
Software · 3 seats▾
FlightScarceEmbeddedModerate adjacentGroundModerate
Electronics · 4 seats▾
RadiationVery scarceAvionics SystemsScarceFPGA/ASIC (includes MMIC/RFIC)Moderate adjacentHardware DesignDeeper bench adjacent
RF & Comms · 5 seats▾
LasercomVery scarceSDRsScarce adjacentRF SystemsModerateAntennasModerate adjacentDSPModerate adjacent
Payload · 5 seats▾
NavigationVery scarcePayload SystemsScarceRadar/SARScarceRF SensingScarceOpticalModerate
Propulsion · 5 seats▾
In-SpaceVery scarceTurboVery scarcePropulsion SystemsScarceCombustionModerateFluidModerate
Mechanical · 1 seats▾
ThermalModerate adjacent
Production · 2 seats▾
AssuranceModerateAITDeeper bench

Scarcity bands only. Underlying pool sizing is proprietary and shared with a company's leadership on request.

Coming soon

The live space-talent intelligence platform.

Every open role, funding round, and market signal across the sector, with the talent scarcity analysis underneath it. One live view of who is hiring, who is moving, and which seats the market cannot fill. We are opening early access to a small group.

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How it works

One platform. The data that makes the rest possible.

At AstroTalent, we track hundreds of open roles, and the people who can fill them, across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. That data drives four things.

01

Workforce strategy

We turn your technical roadmap into a hiring plan: who you need, in what order, where they physically exist, and where you will struggle. On day one, not six months late.

02

Exclusion search

We start with the entire market, every person who could do the job, and rule people out until only the ones who can are left. Often 65 of the only 100 who exist.

03

First-principles assessment

We assess against the work, not a CV. By the time you meet a finalist, you know they have solved your exact problem and put something into space.

04

Leadership hires

The seats your investors are really betting on. We once placed a programme manager who, eighteen months later, was a COO running over $200m in contracts.

Why it is hard

For a single senior role, the qualified pool is small enough to count.

~56
people in the whole US who can do some of the work we do
~90
the qualified pool in Europe for a single senior discipline
30
of those ninety work at one company
Matt Thomson
II The intelligence

The map is the market. The intelligence is the edge.

The named roles, the scarcest disciplines and who is actually available sit behind the map. We share a company's live intelligence with its own leadership, and we run retained search on the seats that decide whether the date holds. Fifteen minutes covers your hardest ones.

Matt Thomson · Founder, AstroTalent
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Restricted intelligence

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The named roles, who is actually available and how to reach them sit a level deeper than this map. Tell us who you are and we will be in touch.

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