General Astronautics
Robotics AI · Space Services
4open roles
$170kmedian advertised pay
1backers · Y Combinator
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
General Astronautics is a space robotics company building autonomous dexterous robots for orbital manufacturing, research, repair and assembly in microgravity. It hires engineering interns and founding mechanical engineers for its robotic systems. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
55/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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 26%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$60k – $170k
Open positions
5
3
Jobs
Intern
66.7%
Architect
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 2 | $60k | $60k |
| Architect | 1 | $170k | $170k |
Highest paying role
Head of Government Business Development
$170k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at General Astronautics
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
29/100
Slowing
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
20 days
faster than 59% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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
56% ▲
Early Careers
22% ▼
Robotics
11% ▲
Sales
11% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at General Astronautics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
20
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
68/100
Languages
MATLAB
C++
Python
Frameworks & libraries
MuJoCo
ROS
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News
Planet Ventures Backs Y Combinator Space Robotics Start-Up General Astronautics
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Report
Planet Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in General Astronautics - Accelerating the Future of Space Robotics and Microgravity Innovation
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2026) - Planet Ventures Inc. (CSE: PXI) (OTC Pink: PNXPF) (FSE: P6U) ("Planet" or the "Company") is thrilled to announce a strategic investment of USD $100,000 at a USD$40,000,000 post-money valuati
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
El Segundo
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Headquarters
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
4 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
El Segundo
United States
Plant / site
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 50-200 est. staff $126k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Robotics, Sales