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Mars Mining optimizes you for your career before you even apply.

Mars is the goal, but getting there will take everything we have here on Earth. We need the best, the brightest and the most dedicated. If you think you have what it takes, you're right where you need to be. We mine the frontier for openings: dig out the roles, the skills they ask for and the way in. Learn the work. Prove it. Get hired. We track 1600 live roles at 56 companies, lay out step-by-step roadmaps, and run free courses that end in a certificate you can show an employer.

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Jezero Crater, Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Your dream career won't come from emails sent into the void

Firing off résumés and hoping someone writes back isn't a plan. Mars Mining trains you for exactly what employers in your field look for: the skills, the job expectations and the interview. You'll apply with a polished dossier and proof of real coursework, and that gives your application a real edge over the stack.

Pick a department. Eleven crews, from Drilling to Command. Start where your skills already are.
Train and rank up. Pass module quizzes and interview drills, earn the department certificate and sleeve badge.
Land the job. Take what you learned to 1600 live openings, filtered to your department.

Earth jobs that lead to space

Each Mars Mining department is a crew you could join today: drillers, line techs, robot mechanics, network crews, nurses. Find the work you already do, or want to, and see where it leads on the frontier. Find your department.

Div 01

Surface Ops

Earth jobs that feed it

Construction site supervisors · Mine and quarry operators · Military logistics and field engineers · Launch and test-site technicians

The job on the frontier

Run the yard at a battery gigafactory, a launch site or a fusion build: heavy equipment, staging, logistics and crews that finish on schedule.

Surface Ops department →

Div 02

Drilling

Earth jobs that feed it

Drillers and toolpushers · Geothermal and water-well crews · Machinists · Mechanical technicians

The job on the frontier

Drill for heat, not oil: geothermal wells, automated mining rigs and deep boreholes, where oilfield hands are already the ones getting hired.

Drilling department →

Div 03

Processing

Earth jobs that feed it

Mineral processing and metallurgy · Chemical plant operators · Refinery engineers · Materials lab techs

The job on the frontier

Work the line at a battery recycler or a critical-minerals refinery, turning raw feed into lithium, nickel and copper someone can build with.

Processing department →

Div 04

Life Support

Earth jobs that feed it

HVAC technicians and engineers · Water and wastewater operators · Navy nuclear and submarine techs · Aircraft environmental systems mechanics

The job on the frontier

Keep air, water and power in spec at data centers, clean rooms and new reactor sites, and be the one who fixes the chiller at 3 a.m.

Life Support department →

Div 05

Oxygen

Earth jobs that feed it

Industrial gas plant operators · Welders and pipefitters on high-pressure systems · Propulsion test techs · Chemists

The job on the frontier

Build and run electrolyzers, hydrogen plants and industrial gas systems: pipefitting, pressure work and chemistry, shift after shift.

Oxygen department →

Div 06

Rover Ops

Earth jobs that feed it

Drone pilots · Heavy equipment operators · Industrial automation techs · Self-driving test operators

The job on the frontier

Keep autonomous trucks, warehouse robots, drones and driverless cars working: field repairs, remote ops and controls you can trust.

Rover Ops department →

Div 07

Survey

Earth jobs that feed it

Geologists and mine geologists · Land surveyors · GIS analysts · Drone mapping pilots

The job on the frontier

Find the ground worth digging: geophysics and data for lithium, copper and geothermal exploration, plus drone and satellite mapping.

Survey department →

Div 08

Medical

Earth jobs that feed it

Nurses and paramedics · Military medics · Remote-site and offshore medics · Physical therapists

The job on the frontier

Bring care where hospitals aren't: remote mine-site and offshore medicine, telehealth, and the clinicians who build medical devices.

Medical department →

Div 09

Security

Earth jobs that feed it

Police and corrections officers · Military police and security forces · Security officers and loss prevention · Emergency dispatchers

The job on the frontier

Every plant, mine, launch site and data center needs people on the gate, on patrol and on call when something goes wrong at 3 a.m.

Security department →

Div 10

Comms

Earth jobs that feed it

Ham radio operators · Telecom and cable technicians · Network engineers · Military signals and avionics techs

The job on the frontier

Build the links: satellite-to-phone networks, fiber, 5G and the IoT radios on every truck, sensor and rig in the field.

Comms department →

Div 11

Command

Earth jobs that feed it

Small-business owners and shop managers · Salespeople and account managers · Bookkeepers and accountants · Paralegals and contract admins

The job on the frontier

Run the business side of a frontier company: win the contract, price the job, hire the crew, keep the books straight and ship a product people pay for.

Command department →

Prove it

Turn what you know into proof

Join the crew to get matched to open roles, then take an Academy course and earn a certificate with its own public page. It gives a hiring manager something to check.

Join the crew →

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Open opportunities

Pulled daily from public company job boards. 308 internships · 147 entry-level · 197 remote

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Thermal Engineer I

Relativity Space · Long Beach, California, United States

entrySpaceLife Support

Posted 1d ago · Details · Apply on Relativity Space's site ↗

Procurement Intern (Winter 2027)

Astranis · San Francisco

internshipSpaceCommand

Posted 1d ago · Details · Apply on Astranis's site ↗

Software Engineer, Platform (Early Career)

Northwood Space · Torrance, CA

entrySpaceComms

Posted 1d ago · Details · Apply on Northwood Space's site ↗

LATAM Public Policy Associate

OpenAI · São Paulo

entryAI

Posted 1d ago · Details · Apply on OpenAI's site ↗

2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Weather Perception

Waymo · San Francisco, CA, USA

internshipAIRoboticsRover Ops

Posted 1d ago · Details · Apply on Waymo's site ↗

Associate Social Media Content Creator

Skyryse · El Segundo, CA

entryAerospaceCommand

Posted 1d ago · Details · Apply on Skyryse's site ↗

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Deadlines to watch

Nov 6, 2026

Matthew Isakowitz Commercial Space Scholarship

Graduate students. Winners considered for a D.C.-area summer internship at a host company.

Mar 1, 2027

NASA OSTEM internships, Summer 2027

Paid, 10 weeks. U.S. citizens 18+, 3.0 GPA. STEM and non-STEM majors.

Early Oct, yearly

Brooke Owens and Patti Grace Smith fellowships

2027 classes closed. Start essays in August for the next round.

Full internship and fellowship guide →

Break in: the guides

How to get hired in AI, robotics, aerospace and space. Real programs, real deadlines, and the projects that get interviews. Read them in order →

Artist's concept of SpaceX's Starship Human Landing System on the lunar surface

Start here

How to break into aerospace without an aerospace degree

Most of the jobs on a rocket company's board aren't titled 'aerospace engineer.' Which degrees and backgrounds map onto them, and how to prove it.

NASA VIPER test rover in the SLOPE Lab at NASA Glenn Research Center

Space internships and fellowships for 2027: real programs, real deadlines

NASA OSTEM and Pathways, SpaceX and Blue Origin, the Brooke Owens and Patti Grace Smith fellowships, and the Isakowitz scholarship. What's open, what closed, and who qualifies.

Concept illustration of mining equipment on a planetary surface

Portfolio projects that get interviews: rockets, ROS robots and CubeSats

Three project types that hardware recruiters recognize, how to scope each so you actually finish, and what to write up afterward.

Engineers lower the MOXIE instrument into Perseverance

Free courses and certifications that are actually worth your time

A short list, checked against what the jobs ask for: MIT OpenCourseWare, the official ROS 2 tutorials, NAR rocketry certification and the FAA mechanic route.

Robotics career paths: from ROS tutorials to humanoids, drones and rovers

The four kinds of robotics jobs that are actually hiring, the free material that teaches the core stack, and how a planetary rover career usually starts on Earth.

AI jobs at space companies: fewer than you'd think, and almost all senior

We counted every open posting at 11 space companies. About 2.6 percent had AI or machine learning in the title. Where they are and how to get one.

Know the industry you're joining

Reading paths on the science, money and law of space resources. Interviewers notice when you understand the business.

Engineers lower the MOXIE instrument into the chassis of NASA's Perseverance rover

Start here

Space resources 101

The physics and chemistry first. What is actually up there, how you get it out, and what has already been demonstrated.

Part 1: ISRU basics: why living off the land is the whole business →

6 reads

Start here

The money

Who pays, for what, and whether the numbers close. Launch costs, helium-3, asteroid metals and the companies placing bets.

Part 1: Starship payload math for people who want to mine the Moon →

5 reads

The Moon photographed from the Orion spacecraft during Artemis II

Start here

Rules of the road

Who is allowed to own what you dig up. The 1967 treaty, the 2015 U.S. law and the Artemis Accords, read from the documents.

Part 1: Who owns what you mine in space? The law, in three documents →

3 reads

Cratered limb of the Moon photographed against black space

Start here

The race to the south pole

Moon Base, prospecting rovers, Chinese landers and the payloads that will finally measure the ice. Our running coverage.

Part 1: Building a Moon base is a procurement story. Watch NASA's Oct. 23 briefing →

7 reads

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Latest videos

Space mining news in under a minute, from our YouTube channel.

Short Oct 29, 2026

Latest analysis

Perseverance rover view of Neretva Vallis in Jezero Crater: dusty reddish ground scattered with dark rocks under a pale sky

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Work the frontier.Train for it here.

Your dream career won't come from emails sent into the void

Earth jobs that lead to space

Turn what you know into proof

Open opportunities

Deadlines to watch

Break in: the guides

The Weekly Briefing

Know the industry you're joining

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Work the frontier.
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