Build What Orbits
Not employees. Builders. You will design, test, and fly on-orbit data center storage and IoT constellations. Our cadence: 4-sat demonstrator, learn for 60 days, deploy 6 more. Then repeat, faster.
Our Cadence
Container orchestration, thermal margins, latency, power budget
Patch + OTA updates, reliability drills, customer pilots
Coverage density, multi-node scheduling, first revenue SLAs
Rapid iteration, fleet expansion, orbital supremacy
Container orchestration, thermal margins, latency, power budget
Patch + OTA updates, reliability drills, customer pilots
Coverage density, multi-node scheduling, first revenue SLAs
Rapid iteration, fleet expansion, orbital supremacy
Open Founding Roles
Four seats. Four missions. Each role owns a critical system from day one.
Propulsion Lead
Design, build, and hot-fire a reusable methalox engine for vertical landing.
Freeze cycle + materials; order long-lead parts; commission test stand; first ignition.
Avionics Lead
Design and integrate flight computers, sensors, and control systems for launch and orbital operations.
Select avionics architecture; integrate sensors and actuators; validate flight control algorithms.
AI/DevOps Engineer
Build orbital AI infrastructure with secure deployment pipelines and automated operations.
Design container orchestration for space; implement CI/CD for flight software; deploy observability stack.
Advisors We Seek
These are the caliber of advisors we're looking for. If you have similar experience scaling propulsion, orbital systems, or vertical integration from prototype to fleet operations, we want to hear from you.
Tom Mueller
Propulsion, Reuse & Startup-to-Scale
Tom Mueller co-founded SpaceX and designed the Merlin and Raptor engines—pioneering reusable propulsion at scale. His experience in building test infrastructure, closing hot-fire loops, and scaling from prototype to fleet ops is exactly what we need as we develop our methalox engine and landing systems.
Seeking advisors with comparable expertise in this domain.
Dr. Peter Beck
Vertical Integration & Small-Lift + Orbital Stack
Dr. Peter Beck founded Rocket Lab and demonstrated that vertical integration—from propulsion to launch to orbital systems—can win in the small-lift market. His strategic approach to manufacturing, operations tempo, and building satellite buses in-house aligns with our mission to own the full stack from launch to orbital compute.
Seeking advisors with comparable expertise in this domain.
Culture & Process
Our Culture
- •Build fast, test often, instrument everything
- •Automate what hurts, iterate what works
- •Radical candor, elegant engineering
- •Mission first, ego last
Interview Loop
- 1.Portfolio deep-dive with technical review
- 2.Whiteboard design session
- 3.Hands-on build test or code review
- 4.Culture/pace interview with founders
What We Offer
Founder-level equity, mission ownership, relocation support (Cape Town core), comp indexed to market + milestones. You'll own critical systems from day one.
Ready to Build?
Send your portfolio, resume, and a note about what you want to build to our team.