Work off planet
Somebody is going to fix it when it breaks up there.
When this equipment launches it will need operators, technicians and fabricators. Those roles do not exist yet. This is where we will start looking when they do.
Read this before you fill anything in. Hephaestus Industry is not hiring today. We have no open positions, no start dates and no salaries to quote. What follows is a description of the roles this company will need when its equipment flies, and a list you can put your name on. Please do not leave a job over anything on this page.
Why bother, then?
Because the list is genuinely how we will hire.
A company at our stage has one real advantage in hiring: the people who found us early actually wanted to be here.
When a contract lands and we need six fabricators inside a month, we are not going to start with a job board. We are going to start with the people who put their name down when there was nothing in it for them yet. That is not a nice sentiment, it is just how small companies hire.
So: tell us who you are and what you can do. We will keep it, and we will come back to it.
Three kinds of work
All three will be needed. Two of them are on Earth.
Ground operators
Running machines on another world from a console here. Excavation, hauling and grading, executed a quarter of a million miles away with a signal delay you have to plan around.
The closest thing today is remote heavy equipment operation, drilling or ROV piloting. If you have run a machine you could not sit in, we want to know.
Pre-flight technicians
Building, assembling, testing and qualifying hardware before it ever leaves the ground. This is where most of the work is, and it is entirely terrestrial.
Fabrication, welding, machining, hydraulics, harnessing, controls, and the test discipline to prove a thing works before somebody bets a mission on it.
Orbital and surface technicians
Eventually, people who go up and repair what breaks where nobody else can reach it. The hardest job on the list and the furthest away.
It will want the deepest experience, the calmest temperament, and somebody who already knows the machine because they built it on the ground first.
What we will look for
Whenever that day comes.
- You have made something physical. Fabrication, machining, welding, mechanics, electrical. Hands on hardware beats a certificate about hardware.
- You can work without the manual. Nobody has done this before, which means the procedure will sometimes be whatever you write down afterwards.
- You check your own work. There is no second crane and no rescue truck. The habit of verifying before handing over is the whole job.
- You can explain what went wrong. Honestly, quickly, and before it becomes expensive.
- Veterans are welcome here. Both founders served in the US Army and both saw combat. We know what the training is worth.
Honest answers
About the list, and about the jobs.
Are these real jobs?
Not yet. They are the roles this company will need when its hardware flies. We will not describe them as vacancies until they are, because somebody might make a life decision on the strength of it.
When might that change?
We genuinely do not know, and anyone in our position who gives you a date is guessing. It depends on funding, on contracts and on how fast the wider industry moves. What we can promise is that the list gets contacted first.
Do I need a space background?
No. Most of what we will need is fabrication, machining, controls and heavy-equipment skill. Oilfield, mining, marine, defence and plant maintenance backgrounds all transfer well — our founder came out of the oilfields himself.
Will the technician roles actually go to space?
That is the intention, eventually, and we are not going to pretend that is around the corner. The ground roles are real work that comes a long time before anybody straps in.
What happens to my details?
We keep them so we can contact you about work. We do not sell or share them, and we will delete them the day you ask. See the privacy policy.
I am a supplier, not a candidate.
Use the contact page instead and tell us what you make. We need a lot of things we cannot make ourselves.
The reality of it
What you would actually be joining.
Not a campus. A shop in Picayune, Mississippi, with a brake, some steel and a husky supervising.
The founder still works another job as a physical scientist to keep this going. Parts get cut in house when we can and ordered when we cannot. Nothing has flown.
If that sounds like a reason not to bother, fair enough. If it sounds like the interesting end of something, put your name down.
Talent register
Put your name on the list below.
Tell us what you do and what you would want to work on. There is no application to fail here — it is a list, and we will come back to it when there is real work.
We keep what you send only to contact you about work at Hephaestus Industry. We do not sell or share it, and we will delete it on request. There are no open positions at this time.