Commercial space station modules and lunar exploration hardware for NASA and private missions
Axiom Space designs and manufactures hardware for low-Earth orbit platforms and lunar surface operations. The engineering-heavy hiring mix (92 of 105 open roles) skews senior and principal-level, reflecting the capital-intensive, safety-critical nature of human spaceflight systems. Active projects span life support, eva suits, lunar terrain vehicles, and radio communications—indicating a vertically integrated approach to both ISS-compatible modules and NASA lunar contracts. Pain points cluster around flight certification, cost-schedule trade-offs, and configuration control, which is typical of government-contracted hardware programs with tight safety requirements.
Notable leadership hires: Avionics Technical Lead, Chief Engineer, Human Systems Integration Lead
Axiom Space, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, develops commercial space station modules and exploration hardware. The company operates across two main fronts: supporting continued utilization of the International Space Station while building the first commercial successor station designed to host government astronauts, private industry, and individual explorers. Its secondary focus includes lunar surface systems and spaceflight-enabling technologies developed under NASA contracts. With 501–1,000 employees, the company combines decades of human spaceflight operations experience with in-house design, manufacturing, and systems engineering to deliver low-cost access to low-Earth orbit and support advanced research, in-space manufacturing, and future deep-space exploration.
Primary projects include portable life support systems, next-generation eva spacesuits, lunar terrain vehicles (under NASA contract), radio communication systems for commercial modules, and avionics control systems. The company is also designing mockups and support hardware for NASA's lunar terrain vehicle program.
Core tools include MATLAB and Python for modeling, C/C++ for embedded systems, SolidWorks and Altium for CAD/design, PTC Windchill for configuration management, Thermal Desktop for thermal analysis, FPGAs for flight electronics, and Workday for enterprise operations.
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