Orbital Operations

Space Services · Launch Services
5open roles
3backers · Y Combinator, Harpoon Ventures
3cities with offices
8technologies in use

Overview

Orbital Operations develops high-thrust, cryogenic space vehicles for rapid-response defense, satellite repositioning, and dynamic in-orbit missions.

Key facts

As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 5 open roles at Orbital Operations. Orbital Operations is headquartered in Los Angeles, United States.

Headquarters
Los Angeles, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
Technologies in its job postings
8Named in its job postings

Funding and backers

Hiring now
5
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Y Combinator, Harpoon Ventures
Momentum
8/100
hiring for its size
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 2025 Went through Y Combinator Sep 2024 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

≈ $44k – $73k per year (Estimated) · In office · Internship · Bachelor's Degree · Long Beach
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≈ $69k – $124k per year (Estimated) · In office · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Long Beach
Siemens NX
GD&T
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≈ $88k – $160k per year (Estimated) · In office · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Long Beach
ANSYS
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≈ $78k – $143k per year (Estimated) · In office · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Long Beach
Python
OrCAD
Design
AutoCAD
SpaceTech
Siemens NX
MIL-STD-1553
SpaceWire
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
24/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
49 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 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
50% ▼
Early Careers
33% ▲
Operations
17% ▼

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Orbital Operations over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
61/100
Languages
Python
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Full Orbital Operations tech stack 8 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Shared investors3
54 portfolio companies: Vectra AI, Decodable, Deutscherfamilienverein and 51 more
185 portfolio companies: Robocurve, Icarus, Hop Aero and 182 more
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Long Beach
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Los Angeles United States
HQ
Long Beach United States
Long Beach HQ
5 open roles 6 posted in 90 days
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Early Careers
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings
Barstow United States
Regional office
Barstow Test Site
careers board

How to cite this page

Alion, "Orbital Operations: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/orbital-operations

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