Today’s Talent Pool

  1. Thomas J. Ronacher in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Senior Propulsion Analyst & TPS Engineer @ SpaceX (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & President @ Freeform ($126M from Founders Fund, NVIDIA, Two Sigma, Boeing, Threshold), VP Hardware Engineering @ Hyperloop One, Thermal System Lead @ Virgin Galactic, UC Berkeley BS, UCLA MS ME

    3. Description: Left Freeform on 6/25

  2. Matt Zipfel in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Early Team & Director @ SpaceX (14 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Early Team & VP Mechanical Engineering @ Anduril, Engineer @ Boeing, Cornell MEng ME

    3. Description: Left Anduril on 1/25

  3. John Howard in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr. Manager Avionics HW @ SpaceX (8 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & VP Engineering @ Parallel Systems ($100M from Anthos Capital, Collaborative Fund, Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures), Materials Engineer @ Lockheed Martin, Stanford MS Materials Science

    3. Description: Left Parallel Systems on 11/24

  4. Andrea Gomirato in Arlington (Stealth)

    1. Role: Engineering Manager @ SpaceX (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-CTO @ Shift5 ($185M raised from Hedosophia, Insight, 645 Ventures)

    3. Description: Stealth since 12/25

  5. Omar Abdelrahman in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Structures Engineer Starship @ SpaceX (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Product Design Engineer @ Meta Reality Labs, 5th FTE & Founding ME @ Lightship ($57M from Obvious Ventures)

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26

  6. Benjamin Odell in LA (CEO & Co-Founder @ Throng Industries)

    1. Role: Lead Production Development Engineer @ SpaceX (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Manufacturing Engineering @ Cover Technologies, Sr Build Engineer @ Anduril Industries, Lead Mechanical Engineer @ Relativity Space

    3. Description: "Containerized drone swarm systems for the DoW and our allies"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  7. Margarita Nalivayko in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Dragon Vehicle Lead & Lead Propulsion Engineer @ SpaceX (8.5 yrs)

    2. Description: Travel career break just concluded on 4/26

  8. Kyle C Grant-Talbot in UK (Stealth)

    1. Role: Environmental Control and Life Support Systems Engineer @ SpaceX (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: CEO & Founder @ Oxwash ($10M raised —> acquired by Elis), System Engineer @ NASA, Oxford DPhil Synthetic Biology, King's College London MS Biophysics

    3. Description: "Building civilisational truth infrastructure"

  9. Eva Tuecke in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ SpaceX (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Researcher @ IBM Watson AI Lab, SWE @ Clay, Researcher @ Fermilab, Harvard BA CS

    3. Description: "Building the future of AI for the physical world"

  10. Kailin Rutherford in SF (Co-Founder @ Stealth)

    1. Role: Internal Eng @ SpaceX (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Engineering Management & Product @ Flashbots, Eng @ AWS, EF Founder in Residence, ODF25 Fellow

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/25

  11. Nick Khormaei in SF (Co-Founder & COO @ Neuramill)

    1. Role: Manufacturing Engineer @ SpaceX (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Propulsion Engineer @ Boeing, Manufacturing Engineer @ Tesla

    3. Description: “Building the manufacturing intelligence layer”

  12. Anuj T. in Raleigh (Stealth)

    1. Role: ME @ SpaceX (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Engineer @ Zipline, Head of Solar Engineering @ Aptera Motors, Duke BS ME

    3. Description: Stealth since 10/25

  13. Tyler Carnevale in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Engineer @ SpaceX (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Engineer @ X

    3. Description: Stealth since 2026

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  14. Derek Stephens in Austin (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Supply Chain @ K2 Space Corporation (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Lead Production Engineer @ The Boring Company, Research Intern @ Sutter Hill Ventures

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  15. Charlie Nitschelm in Boston (Co-Founder @ Uplift Microhome)

    1. Role: Lead Starlink Engineer @ SpaceX (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Propulsion Manufacturing Engineering Intern @ Rocket Lab

    3. Description: "Transitional housing product that ships like freight, moved by forklift, and instantly online without infrastructure"

  16. Nicolas B. in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sensors Development Engineer @ SpaceX (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Assistant Chief Engineer @ Supernal, Controls Engineer @ Kitty Hawk, Research Assistant @ LIGO Lab MIT (Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016), MIT BS Physics

    3. Description: Left Supernal on 11/25

  17. Casey Klebba in Seattle (Founder @ Ugly Corporation)

    1. Role: Lead Designer & Sr SWE @ SpaceX (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Engineering Manager & Sr SWE @ Netflix, Director of Engineering & Head of Design @ Reliable Robotics

    3. Description: "Scalable Commercial Autonomy"

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

  18. Corey Hass in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Senior Manufacturing Engineer & Sr. Manager @ SpaceX (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: First 10 MEs & Sr. Manager Concept Design @ Anduril,

    3. Description: Left Anduril on 2/25

  19. Ashrith Balakumar in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Lead Avionics Engineer & Mission Director @ SpaceX (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Product Engineering @ K2 Space, Carnegie Mellon MS & BS ME

    3. Description: Left K2 Space on 3/26

  20. Akash C. in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Starship Launch Engineering @ SpaceX (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: 3rd Engineer @ Vivodyne ($80M from Khosla), Contrary VP, Intern @ Anduril, Boring Company, UPenn MSE Robotics & BE ME

    3. Description: Left Vivodyne on 12/25

  21. Richard Walker in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Mission Ops Engineer & Power Electronics Engineer @ SpaceX (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director Mission Ops @ Capella Space, Sr. Ops Engineer @ Astranis, Ops Engineer @ Zipline, Team Lead @ Planet Labs, Systems Engineer @ Google

    3. Description: Left Capella Space on 8/25

  22. Vinai Rachakonda in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Flight SWE Intern @ SpaceX (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Sr. SWE @ Ramp, Managing Partner @ Dorm Room Fund, Intern @ CTRL-labs, UPenn BSE CS, Wharton BS Econ

    3. Description: SPC Member since 5/25

  23. Sarah Schulberg in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr. Manager Propulsion Engineering @ SpaceX (17 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: USC MS & BS Astronautical Engineering

    3. Description: "Taking Some Time Off” - left SpaceX on 2/26

  24. Samuel Throne in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr. Structures Engineer @ SpaceX (8 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr. Director Structures @ Vast

    3. Description: Left Vast on 3/26

  25. Arvin Shahid in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE & Business Engineer Intern @ SpaceX

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ Stealth (8-figure ARR), Data + AI EM @ Microsoft, TPM Intern @ NVIDIA, PM Intern @ GitHub, UC Berkeley CS

    3. Description: Current Research Fellow @ OpenAI

  26. Chris C. in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr. Starlink Engineer @ SpaceX (9 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Design Engineering Intern @ Caterpillar, Manufacturing Engineering Co-Op @ Northrop Grumman, Quality Engineering Intern @ John Deere, UIUC BS ME

    3. Description: Left SpaceX on 5/25

  27. Jason Hunter in El Segundo (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ SpaceX (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Deployment @ Sift, Platoon Commander @ US Marine Corps, UVA BS CS/Finance/Econ

    3. Description: Left Sift on 2/26

  28. Michael Rooks in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Principal Thermal Engineer @ SpaceX (18.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Cornell MEng & BS ME

    3. Description: Left SpaceX on 2/26

  29. John Sousa, PE in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Manager Dragon Life Support Engineering @ SpaceX (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Marine Engineer @ Glosten, Gonzaga BS ME

    3. Description: "Taking some time off to travel and learn about new industries.”

  30. Brian Check in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Graduate Engineer @ SpaceX (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder @ HyperWatch Technologies, Structures Intern @ Vast, DIU Fellow, CMU BS ME, Stanford MS Aero

    3. Description: Stanford MS student class of ‘26

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