Skills Graph
Map tools, systems, materials, software, standards, test methods, certifications, and domain experience to mission role families.
SPACE JOBS · TECHNICIANS · ENGINEERS · MISSION OPS · BUSINESS
WORK
WHERE EARTH
ENDS.
Orbital Labor is the job marketplace for the entire space economy — not only astronauts, and not only engineers. Find the people who design, build, test, launch, operate, finance, regulate, supply, and eventually work beyond Earth.
All rolesengineering to supply chain
Direct applyfuture ATS integrations
Freshnessverified listing state
Future-readyEarth → orbit → Moon → Mars
● ORBITAL LABOR · SPACE WORKFORCE MAP
THE INDUSTRY IS BIGGER THAN “ASTRONAUT”
DESIGN + BUILDengineers · technicians · quality
SOFTWARE + DATAflight · autonomy · ground · cyber
SCIENCE + POLICYresearch · regulatory · education
OPERATE + SCALEmission ops · programs · supply
BuildHARDWARE
CodeSOFTWARE
OperateMISSIONS
ScaleBUSINESS
Current-market grounding: NASA’s careers page explicitly recruits engineers, scientists, program managers and more, while current SpaceX openings span aerodynamics, avionics, satellite systems, test, software and other disciplines. Existing specialist boards such as Space-Careers and Space Crew also show that space-specific job discovery is already a real category. Orbital Labor’s differentiation is a broader workforce map, verified job freshness, technician visibility, mission-context profiles, and employer ATS integration — not pretending the category does not already exist.
Job board
SPACE JOBS, WITHOUT THE NOISE.
Every listing here comes from an employer: a direct posting or a connected ATS / careers feed, and it expires when the source closes. The board fills as employers connect, so it stays empty rather than showing invented roles.
Career map
SPACE NEEDS MORE
THAN AEROSPACE ENGINEERS.
Choose a career lane. The product is intentionally designed to pull technicians, software professionals, researchers, operators, program managers, supply-chain teams, and business professionals into the same space-workforce graph.
Choose a lane
Space career lanes
Use role families to find transferable skills instead of forcing everyone to already know aerospace job titles.
CAREER LANE
Mission Fit
YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE SPACE-INDUSTRY SKILLS.
Aerospace recruiting often loses people because candidates do not know how their existing work translates. Mission Fit maps a background and preferred work style to the space-career lanes that are most likely to make sense.
Orbital Passport
A RESUME TELLS WHAT YOU DID.
A MISSION PROFILE TELLS WHERE YOU FIT.
The candidate profile should organize the information space employers actually search for without turning eligibility requirements into discriminatory shortcuts.
Mission Experience
Hardware built, launches supported, vehicles operated, facilities worked in, mission phases, production environments, and measurable outcomes.
Work Preferences
Location, remote/hybrid/on-site, shift work, travel, relocation, field work, cleanroom, launch-site, manufacturing, or control-room preferences.
Employer Eligibility
Employers attach the lawful work-authorization, export-control, clearance, license, or site-access requirements to each job. Candidates choose whether to answer relevant eligibility questions.
Portfolio Proof
Projects, GitHub, publications, CAD, patents, certifications, test results, technical writing, and other evidence linked directly to the profile.
For space employers
STOP LOSING GREAT PEOPLE TO GENERIC JOB TAXONOMIES.
Production Orbital Labor should connect directly to employer ATS systems rather than asking recruiting teams to manually maintain a second database.
✓ATS / careers-site ingestion
✓Automatic close / freshness checks
✓Space-specific role taxonomy
✓Technician + trade visibility
✓Salary / work-mode fields when employer supplies them
✓Direct apply to employer workflow
Employer command view
HIRING PIPELINE BY MISSION, NOT JUST REQUISITION.
Group roles around vehicles, programs, production lines, launch campaigns, mission phases, or facilities so leadership can see whether the workforce matches the mission plan.
✓Program / mission hiring plan
✓Critical-role heatmap
✓Talent-pool / transferable-skill search
✓Interview pipeline and aging
✓Offer / acceptance / start-date forecasting
Marketplace integrity
THE JOB HAS TO BE REAL.
THE APPLY BUTTON HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE REAL.
Orbital Labor should earn trust by removing stale listings and refusing the most common job-board failure modes.
01
No fake listings
Every job requires an employer source: an authorized posting or a confirmed ATS / careers-page feed. Nothing is invented to fill the board.
02
Freshness status
Jobs should automatically expire or re-verify against the source so candidates are not applying to positions closed weeks ago.
03
No pay-to-apply
Candidates should never pay Orbital Labor for the right to submit an ordinary job application.
04
Requirements belong to employers
Work authorization, export controls, clearances, degrees, licenses, physical requirements, and site access should be employer-supplied and reviewed for lawful use.
Product boundaries
THE JOB MARKETPLACE
FOR THE SPACE ECONOMY.
The board opens as employers post. Today you can use the career-lane map and Mission Fit; job listings appear once an employer posts a role or connects its ATS. No listing on the board is invented.
No. The product is intentionally broad: technicians, manufacturing, software, mission operations, science, research, policy, program management, supply chain, finance, sales, facilities, safety, and many other roles belong in the space workforce.
The preferred production model is authorized direct postings or employer/ATS integrations. Public career sources can be used for discovery only where permitted; the product should respect source terms and avoid presenting stale or unauthorized data as employer-approved listings.
Yes, but those requirements must come from the employer and should be reviewed for lawful, accurate use. Orbital Labor should not invent citizenship or clearance restrictions on behalf of employers.
Yes. Current specialist sites such as Space-Careers and Space Crew already aggregate space-sector roles. Orbital Labor differentiates through the full workforce taxonomy, technician/trades visibility, Mission Fit, Orbital Passport, employer mission-based hiring views, and strict freshness/source integrity.
The current space workforce is overwhelmingly Earth-based. The platform is designed to work today while leaving room for future orbital, lunar, and deep-space work locations if and when real employers create those jobs.
Orbital Labor
THE SPACE ECONOMY
NEEDS PEOPLE BEFORE
IT NEEDS PEOPLE IN SPACE.
Build the workforce marketplace that connects today’s factories, labs, launch sites, control rooms, and software teams to tomorrow’s orbital and lunar economy.