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Funding and backers

Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
103
+28 posted in 30 days
Grants
$821k
3 grants · CORDIS
Backers
5
Earlybird, Bayern Kapital
Momentum
36/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Sep 7 Launched Isar Aerospace launches rocket carrying satellites, in European first · Silicon Republic Sep 6 On the Hacker News front page Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight · 618 points Aug 14 First role in Canada Managing Director, Canada (m/f/d) Jul 14 First sales or marketing role Bid Manager (m/f/d) Jul 1 Won a grant $52k · CORDIS Jan 7 First executive search Managing Director, Isar Aerospace Sweden AB (m/f/d) Dec 16, 2025 First role in Norway Launch Operations Technician (m/f/d) Mar 30, 2025 Launched Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight · nasaspaceflight.com Jan 1, 2023 Won a grant $161k · CORDIS Aug 1, 2022 Won a grant $608k · CORDIS 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.31%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
6
best: 618 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant Jul 2026 $52k — CORDIS
Grant Jan 2023 $161k — CORDIS
Grant Aug 2022 $608k — CORDIS
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Isar Aerospace SE its site
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How Isar Aerospace hires

Truth index
A 90/100
Median time to fill
57 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
41%
Reposted roles
0%

Isar Aerospace scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 80 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 41% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 57 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

Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company headquartered in Ottobrunn, near Munich, and was founded in 2018. The company develops and builds the Spectrum launch vehicle, a two-stage rocket designed to transport small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into orbit. It operates production facilities in Germany and utilizes launch sites such as the Andoya Spaceport in Norway to provide flexible and cost-effective access to space for global commercial and government customers.

News

News Via Satellite 29 days ago
SEOPS Buys Five Launches from Isar Aerospace
After achieving success on its second launch, Isar Aerospace signed a five-launch contract with rideshare provider SEOPS during World Space Business Week.
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News Yahoo News 1 month ago
Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on second Spectrum rocket launch
The Munich-based startup says rockets 3 through 7 are already in production as it targets up to 40 launches per year
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News The Currency analytics 1 month ago
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum Rocket Hits Orbit With a €10 Billion Claim Behind It
Spectrum flew. And it actually worked this time. On September 5, Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket lifted off from Andoya Spaceport in northern Norway and
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News Blockonomi 1 month ago
Europe's Space Race Heats Up as Isar Aerospace Successfully Reaches Orbit
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket became the first privately-built rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, launching from Norway with five satellites.
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News Silicon Republic 1 month ago
Isar Aerospace launches rocket carrying satellites, in European first
Isar Aerospace has, in a first for a private European start-up, launched the Spectrum rocket with a satellite payload.
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News Crypto Briefing 1 month ago
Isar Aerospace becomes first commercial entity to launch rocket into orbit from continental Europe
Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Norway on Sept 5, 2026, becoming the first commercial company to reach orbit from Europe.
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News Isar Aerospace 1 month ago
History for European spaceflight: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity's progress and our planet's sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
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News Isar Aerospace 1 month ago
Mission Updates
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity's progress and our planet's sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Isar Aerospace over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
99
Postings analysed
50
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Python66%
MATLAB42%
C++18%
C#16%
Frameworks & libraries
Flink4%
Avalonia2%
Cypress2%
MAUI2%
Databases
Apache Iceberg4%
Delta Lake4%
Snowflake4%
ClickHouse2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux14%
.NET10%
Azure6%
Apache Kafka6%
AI & ML
ChatGPT2%
LLM2%
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Full Isar Aerospace tech stack 99 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
105
23 opened / 15 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 25% 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
28% ▲
Early Careers
15% ▼
Operations
10% ▼
Field & Service
8% ▼
Hardware
7%
HR
6%
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+12 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Parsdorf Oct 2026
Added Ubuntu to stack Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Oct 2026
Added Service Desk to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Entra ID to stack Oct 2026
Added ITSM to stack Oct 2026
Added Active Directory to stack Oct 2026
Added Inertial Navigation to stack Oct 2026
Added Tkinter to stack Oct 2026
Added Streamlit to stack Oct 2026
Added PyQt to stack Oct 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
3
Busiest office
Ottobrunn
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Ottobrunn Germany
HQ
Ottobrunn, Germany
25 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Backend
seen since Aug 2023 careers board, job postings
Parsdorf Germany
Plant / site
Parsdorf, Germany
66 open roles 49 posted in 90 days 12% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, HR
seen since Aug 2023 job postings
Kiruna Sweden
Plant / site
Kiruna, Sweden
9 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Operations
seen since Jun 2024 careers board, job postings
Andenes Norway
Plant / site
Andøya, Norway
5 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Operations
seen since Dec 2025 careers board, job postings

Jobs

≈ $62k – $151k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Parsdorf
Python
Bash
Terraform
Ansible
Red Hat
VMWare
Debian
Azure
HAProxy
AWS
Nginx
Configuration Management
Proxmox VE
KVM
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
DHCP
VLAN
BGP
OSPF
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
Apply
In office • 4+ years exp • Parsdorf
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
RTOS
CI/CD
Apply
≈ $81k – $148k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • PhD • Parsdorf
Python
C++
MATLAB
Git
Robotics
Inertial Navigation
Apply
≈ $53k – $125k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Parsdorf
Python
PowerShell
ISO 27001
CIS Benchmarks
Least Privilege
Apply
≈ $73k – $187k per year (Estimated) • In office • Parsdorf
Apply
≈ $57k – $114k per year (Estimated) • In office • Parsdorf
Apply
≈ $80k – $146k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ottobrunn
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
LTspice
Design
SolidWorks
Apply
≈ $66k – $130k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Ottobrunn
Python
C++
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Linux
Apply
≈ $71k – $124k per year (Estimated) • In office • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ottobrunn
Python
Java
Rust
C#
Snowflake
Druid
Databricks
ClickHouse
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
InfluxDB
Apache Kafka
Microsoft Fabric
AI/ML
Flink
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
CI/CD
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Azure Data Factory
Apply
In office • Part-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Ottobrunn
JavaScript
SQL
C#
Node JS
.NET
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Apply
≈ $79k – $148k per year (Estimated) • In office • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Parsdorf
Python
PowerShell
DNS
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
CIS Benchmarks
Threat Modeling
PKI
SIEM
IoT
OPC UA
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≈ $62k – $119k per year (Estimated) • In office • Ottobrunn
C#
.NET
Avalonia
Mobile
MVVM
MAUI
DevOps
Rest API
Git
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$821k
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2026 $52k Details
Grant 2023 $161k Details
Grant 2022 $608k Details