Cowboy Space
cowboyspace.com
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AI Compute & Inference
Space Services
Satellite Manufacturing
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$305M
1 round on record
Latest round
$305M
Venture round · Apr 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
76
+12 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
36/100
hiring for its size, a new city, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2026 | $305M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Cowboy Space Corp | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Baiju BhattExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Andreessen Horowitz 
Index Ventures 
IVP 
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How Cowboy Space hires
Truth index
C 67/100
Median time to fill
35 days
Ghost roles
22%
Stale roles
67%
Reposted roles
22%
Cowboy Space scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 22% look like ghost listings, 67% have gone stale and 22% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 35 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Cowboy Space is an American aerospace company developing an integrated system of satellites and launch vehicles to place high-performance computing in low Earth orbit and send its data to the ground over optical links, with the aim of supplying power and compute for artificial intelligence workloads from space. It hires satellite mechanisms, controls, embedded software and space datacenter networking engineers at sites in San Carlos, California and Kent, Washington. The company is headquartered in San Carlos, California, United States.
News
CowboySpace申请部署2万颗卫星星座 计划提供太空数据中心服务
Cowboy Space牛仔太空公司在完成了2.75亿美元B轮融资后随即提交了部署2万颗卫星星座的申请计划提供太空数据中心服务 该公司在向美国联邦通信委员会FCC提交的备案文件中阐述了其Stampede卫星星座计划该星...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cowboy Space over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
48
Postings analysed
107
Stack modernity
69/100AI adopter
Languages
Python36%
C++19%
MATLAB16%
Rust8%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA2%
NumPy1%
Ray1%
F Prime1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux7%
RTOS5%
CUDA Toolkit3%
FreeRTOS2%
AI & ML
BERT1%
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48 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$52k – $340k
Open positions
67
66
Jobs
Junior
4.5%
Middle
21.2%
Senior
51.5%
Staff
13.6%
Principal
3%
Architect
6.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 3 | $150k | $150k – $171k |
| Middle | 14 | $189k | $114k – $300k |
| Senior | 34 | $200k | $91k – $250k |
| Staff | 9 | $200k | $190k – $276k |
| Principal | 2 | $248k | $245k – $250k |
| Architect | 4 | $238k | $205k – $340k |
Highest paying role
Space Datacenter Architect
$340k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Cowboy Space
By role, level and city, against the market · 67 jobs with pay
People
Baiju Bhatt
Executive Officer, Director
Daniel Gallagher
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
78
9 opened / 27 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 35% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
70% ▲
Hardware
9% ▼
Operations
4% ▲
Backend
3% ▼
DevOps
2% ▼
Early Careers
2% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added YouTube to stack
Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Oct 2026
Added Sensor Fusion to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Kent
Oct 2026
Added VHDL to stack
Sep 2026
Added F Prime to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack
Sep 2026
Added Kanban to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Carlos
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San Carlos
United States
HQ
31 open roles 28 posted in 90 days 45% engineering 200-500 est. staff $207k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Backend
Kent
United States
Plant / site
42 open roles 56 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 200-500 est. staff $191k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Operations
Seattle
United States
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 50-200 est. staff $188k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware, Communications
Jobs
$145k – $171k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
Python
TPU
DevOps
Linux
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$170k – $202k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Kent
TPU
Apply
≈ $179k – $328k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Carlos
Python
MATLAB
TPU
DevOps
Linux
Apply
$170k – $192k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Carlos
Python
Rust
C++
MATLAB
Simulink
AI/ML
TPU
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
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$150k – $200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Carlos
Python
C++
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
TPU
Apply
$197k – $236k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Carlos
Python
InfiniBand
DevOps
HPC
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≈ $137k – $266k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
Python
Rust
C++
TPU
Human-in-the-Loop
DevOps
RTOS
IoT
FreeRTOS
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$150k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Carlos
Python
BERT
TPU
NVLink
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≈ $119k – $346k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • San Carlos
Python
Verilog
C++
VHDL
TPU
DevOps
RTOS
CI/CD
SpaceTech
F Prime
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$240k – $340k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • San Carlos
HPC
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$130k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Kent
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
AI/ML
NumPy
TPU
Apply
$200k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Kent
Rust
C++
TPU
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$305M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $305M | Details |