Today’s Top Talent Pool

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, is reportedly raising $10B at a $130B valuation led by Coatue — its first outside funding round ever.

  1. Glenn Case in Atlanta (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Propulsion Design and Development Eng @ Blue Origin (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CTO @ Hermeus ($500M+ from Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, RTX Ventures; $1B valuation), Director of Propulsion and Structures @ Generation Orbit, Co-Founder @ Responsive Launch Systems, Purdue MEng

    3. Description: Left Hermeus on 10/25

  2. Lauren Lyons in LA (Stealth)

    1. Role: Lead Systems Engineer & Program SEIT Lead @ Blue Origin (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: COO @ Firefly Aerospace (IPO'd on Nasdaq 8/25 at $8.5B), Dragon Chief Engineer @ SpaceX, Founder @ BetaDater, Princeton, Harvard Kennedy School

    3. Description: "Space. Los Angeles ↔ France."

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter

  3. Ross Doherty in LA (Co-Founder & COO @ Orbital Operations) - Venture Lead

    1. Role: Turbomachinery Manufacturing Engineer @ Blue Origin (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Lead Turbomachinery Manufacturing Engineer @ Relativity Space, Manufacturing Engineer @ Aerojet Rocketdyne

    3. Description: "High-thrust orbital vehicles for national security missions"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

    5. Funding: $9M from Initialized Capital, Harpoon Ventures, DTX Ventures, Rebel Fund, YC

  4. Garuth Acharya in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Advanced Development Programs @ Blue Origin (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Principal @ 8090 Industries, Launch Vehicle Operations @ SpaceX, Wharton MBA, Cornell MEng

    3. Description: "Building American industrial capacity"

    4. Contact: Twitter

  5. Vijay Injam in Austin (Stealth)

    1. Role: Director of Engineering @ Blue Origin (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Off Com, Founder in Residence @ Antler, Sr. Specialist Architect @ AWS

    3. Description: Stealth since 7/25

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  6. Paramdeep Singh in LA (Founder @ Enduring Systems)

    1. Role: Director of Engineering & Principal Architect @ Blue Origin (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Engineering @ MUFG Union Bank

    3. Description: “A commercial research lab for long-horizon problems.”

  7. Brandon Guo in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Student Strategy Consultant @ Blue Origin (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Strategic Projects Lead @ Mercor, Technical PM @ Apple, UC Berkeley M.E.T.

    3. Description: "Helping founders capture and license their data to frontier AI labs"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  8. Oliver Wesche in Boston (Founder @ Verno)

    1. Role: ML Engineer @ Blue Origin (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: ML Back-End Engineer @ Asurion, Full Stack AI Developer @ PeopleTec, HBS

    3. Description: "Verno is an AI platform for engineering deliverables. We help EPC firms and industrial owners produce and check their engineering work faster.”

  9. Shailesh Nagalingam in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Strategy Consultant @ Blue Origin (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder in Residency @ The Residency, Co-Founder & CEO @ Kern Volunteers United, UC Berkeley M.E.T.

    3. Description: "Intelligence products in defense, finance, and insurance verticals"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  10. Collin Mickels in LA (Founder & CEO @ Rollup)

    1. Role: Modeling & Simulation Engineering @ Blue Origin (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Spacecraft Engineer @ Varda Space Industries, Systems Engineering @ NASA JPL

    3. Description: "Web-based environment for collaborative engineering of complex hardware"

    4. Funding: Raised $5.6M seed led by a16z American Dynamism and Thiel Capital; $11M total.

  11. Morgan Khan in Brownsville (CEO @ Roundtable Aerospace)

    1. Role: Integration Engineering Technician @ Blue Origin (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Raptor Install Technician @ SpaceX, Crew Chief @ US Air Force

    3. Description: “We are building reusable rockets in Houston so rideshare and dedicated missions still fly when today’s workhorse is gone — defending the path to orbit for the United States and its allies, and for the work of making life multiplanetary.”

  12. Harry Price in Boston (Stealth)

    1. Role: Propulsion Engineer II @ Blue Origin (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Harvard MS/MBA

    3. Description: Stealth since 6/25

  13. Daniel Sinkel in Glasgow, KY (Co-Founder @ Sagittarius Logistics)

    1. Role: Aerospace Systems Engineer III @ Blue Origin (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Project Manager @ ispace, Systems Engineer @ Astrobotic, Test Engineer @ Masten Space Systems, Build Engineer @ SpaceX

    3. Description: "Orbital launch vehicles — launch when you're ready, not on someone else's schedule"

  14. Brendon Bourgea in Denver (Co-Founder @ Altaris Space)

    1. Role: HLS Cross-Vehicle Analysis Lead @ Blue Origin (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Flight Controller @ NASA

    3. Description: “Infrastructure for the next frontier”

  15. Blake Mouser in Seattle (Stealth)

    1. Role: Manufacturing Engineer, BE-7 @ Blue Origin (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Manufacturing Engineer @ Gravitics, Equipment Support Technician @ Tesla, Flight Welder @ Firefly Aerospace, Welder @ SpaceX

    3. Description: Stealth since 1/26

  16. Zac Farrell in Portland (Co-Founder @ HotData)

    1. Role: Senior SWE @ Blue Origin (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Staff SWE @ Mode Analytics, Software Architect @ Autodesk

    3. Description: “Let your agents create, fork, and query and millions databases - instantly.”

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