About
Mars Mining Co. is for people trying to get hired on the frontier: space, AI, robotics, new energy and the skilled trades that build them. We track live openings at dozens of companies, publish a step-by-step career roadmap, keep a list of internships and fellowships with real deadlines, and write break-in guides sourced from the programs and regulations themselves.
Mars is a metaphor here, not a destination. Few people want to move there, and most of the work that supports space happens on Earth anyway. The mining is the real part: we dig through company job boards, course catalogs and filings to pull out the openings and the skills worth having. A lot of that work is familiar: drilling, radio and networks, robotics, plant operations and hands-on technical trades. Our short version is learn the work, prove it, get hired. Crew members get matched to open roles, and the Mars Mining Academy gives free courses that end in a test and a certificate of completion with its own public page. Our certificates show online course completion, not a trade license or an apprenticeship.
How we find our route
We start with one of five Classes: Construction Corps, Manufacturing & Processing, Power & Facilities, Fleet & Robotics, or Systems. Inside each, we choose a Department with its own badge, ranks and Academy coursework. Medical, Security and Command are shared specialties, not extra Classes.
Then we check our Personnel File inventory, do the coursework and apply on the employer's site. Our roadmap connects those steps. We can study tracks such as Construction Safety and Trade Foundations, Rover Operations and Spacecraft Links and Flight Software, then record learning alongside practical experience. Project submissions, team-lead work and the capstone are coming soon.
Behind that sits straight analysis of the industry, with a focus on space resources: who's looking for lunar ice, who's paying for it, and what the hardware can actually do. Knowing the business is part of getting hired into it. The company in the name is made up, a retro mining outfit "established 2049." We don't dig rock.
The site is edited by Alec Weinstein, who is working on breaking into these fields himself.
Posts are written by the Mars Mining Desk and edited by Alec Weinstein. Each one starts from primary sources such as agency releases, papers and company filings, and links them where the claim is made. We say what we think and what would change our mind. When we get something wrong we fix it and note the correction.
The jobs board pulls listings daily from employers' public job boards (Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby) across AI, robotics, aerospace and space, and links straight to the original posting. We don't screen candidates, and a listing isn't an endorsement.
We don't run display ads today. Our resource pages may use affiliate links; when they do, the page says so at the top. Details are on the disclosure page.
Contact
Corrections, tips or a broken listing: [email protected].