- This seems like a clever way of getting talent involved during a budget squeeze, presumably with the hope that some of those they attract will still be around after this congress and the agency can stabilize once again. I guess it's also a neat kind of try-before-you-buy for both sides. NASA is prestigious and one of the very few places one could do purely science-focused aerospace engineering, but it's still a government job under all the gold leaf and atomic robots.
EDIT: Good Lord, I get the cynicism but at least someone at NASA HR is trying new things to keep the lights on.
porridgeraisin 32 minutes ago [-]
Isn't most of the actual aerospace R&D work contracted out?
tiberone 21 minutes ago [-]
> NASA Force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery.
Am I an idiot or does their leading sentence make absolutely no sense?
kokanee 2 minutes ago [-]
This website is vibe coded
RIMR 19 minutes ago [-]
I mean, I can make sense of it, but it's written like it's describing a picture or something. As a standalone sentence, it is weird.
Rooster61 7 minutes ago [-]
I can't. It is a subject without a predicate. It doesn't look like valid English to my eyes.
13 minutes ago [-]
big_toast 7 minutes ago [-]
Why does the application window last four days?
Charitably they're moving fast, but without already having people in mind for the roles or having created the hiring pipeline, how do you reach a sufficiently large audience. Is there an explanation I'm missing? Was this announced a while ago?
Makes it feel like they already know who they want for the roles/adverse selection. On a longer or recurring timescale, seems like a cool way to reach out to potential hires.
soraki_soladead 3 minutes ago [-]
[delayed]
johnhess 51 minutes ago [-]
The first sentence isn't even a sentence.
Waterluvian 46 minutes ago [-]
Sure it is. You can fit a lot of technologists inside space flight and aeronautics systems if you push hard enough.
tencentshill 1 hours ago [-]
Cool website, Big Balls. Where's our social security data?
sp4cec0wb0y 37 minutes ago [-]
LMFAO
hellojesus 27 minutes ago [-]
Why is this called Nasa Force when the linked job is for an Areospace Engineer? The usa.jobs site only shows 15 open reqs for Nasa, and they are almost all engineering roles, save a few accounting/finance ones.
Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the fancy landing page (that provides zero actual info) if that's the case? No Data Science or developer openings for tech folk that don't have Abet certified engineering degrees?
I'd love to work for Nasa, but I live in Portland, OR. Does this geo basically disqualify me from ever joining Nasa?
And the pay range for the aerospace engineer is okayish, but it's not really out-competiting more senior tech folks in any capacity.
antisthenes 13 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, there definitely needs to be more transparency about the whole initiative.
Either it's "We're hiring ~1000 IT/Engineering specialists across multiple domains" or it's "Hey, just apply on USAJobs for the open positions".
Otherwise it just feels like throwing an application into the black hole of some kafkaesque talent management system.
daviding 39 minutes ago [-]
My 5090 couldn't handle that starfield at the beginning. I got a 1202 alarm just scrolling down..
Bender 34 minutes ago [-]
Odd. My laptop seemed to do fine with a 'NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile [Discrete]' using CachyOS. It could have been a little smoother but it rendered fine. There were a couple spots where it was a little herky-jerky-laggy that maybe needs optimization.
bilekas 23 minutes ago [-]
This really screams and reads like a crypto scam or something, also why would they not use the official NASA logo ?
This is so strange.. I'm still not even clear on what it's for..
metalliqaz 7 minutes ago [-]
It reads like it received no proof-reading or editing, and it looks like it was vibe coded.
Intern project?
browningstreet 5 minutes ago [-]
I think the hint of violence was deliberate.
kami23 22 minutes ago [-]
I would love to work for NASA so much even at a significant pay cut, but almost everything I've read in the past was they still do drug screenings for a lot of positions I was interested in. Maybe someday they will pull their heads out of the dark ages.
jesse_dot_id 19 minutes ago [-]
Normally I would agree but I get it with regards to NASA. They do life and death stuff that has like zero margin of error. They probably shouldn't be in the business of hiring people who's edible might be lasting longer than they expected.
nozzlegear 7 minutes ago [-]
Frankly, drug screenings for employees can only benefit NASA given the kind of work they do.
Avicebron 27 minutes ago [-]
Did anyone scroll down far enough to see the "automate air traffic controllers"? I guess technically it's aeronautics but I didn't know that was part of NASA
yieldcrv 21 minutes ago [-]
its an air administration
the space part gets the most attention
maciejzj 47 minutes ago [-]
Is this gig-workification of the space industry?
cshimmin 34 minutes ago [-]
It kinda sounds like a post-doc, in that it provides an on-ramp to working in the industry/institution. But without having to waste your time getting a PhD.
bilekas 18 minutes ago [-]
> But without having to waste your time getting a PhD
Ah yes, that 'waste of times' having to learn things in aeronautics and physics..
drstewart 36 minutes ago [-]
No, it isn't. Other questions?
rafram 47 minutes ago [-]
Another barely usable website from the "National Design Studio." I wish they'd take a cue from gov.uk (or even the US Digital Service and 18F, which they gutted) and build clean, functional, and accessible sites... but the crew of web developers who are willing to work for this administration seem way too obsessed with this defense-tech startup landing page aesthetic to care about usability.
The developer of this scroll-smoothing JS library [1] has a lot to answer for.
you can tell this was generated with Gemini, the way it loves to do those "enter on scroll" sentences
beej71 45 minutes ago [-]
Wonder what the job security is like.
xpe 48 minutes ago [-]
These job postings opened today on April 17 and close in four days (on April 21). This is highly compressed and highly unusual.
Being no fan of the current administration and its hangers-on, my brain quickly jumps to less flattering reasons for these short time windows. A four day application window favors people they want to select. They may well have told certain people in advance to be ready. I don't have direct "proof" of this, and I'm open to learning more, but the current administration has beyond exhausted any presumption of fair dealing.
I encourage anyone and everyone interested to apply and report back. NASA has a good mission and its needs people with a moral backbone and intrinsic pro-science drive.
btrettel 48 seconds ago [-]
> These job postings opened today on April 17 and close in four days (on April 21). This is highly compressed and highly unusual.
Even stranger, there's a countdown at the top that seems to be a day off.
> APPLICATIONS END IN T-02:19:37:14
JumpCrisscross 20 minutes ago [-]
I initially thought this was a call for technologists to commit to volunteering on a deep technical project for four days. That’s not enough time to design a component. But it might e.g. let some minor work on a protocol advance.
sybercecurity 28 minutes ago [-]
That has been the assumption in most of these cases. The agency must already have a list of people they want, so a short window keeps the risk of someone else jumping to the front of the queue.
secretsatan 26 minutes ago [-]
I’m sure it’s based on merit
xpe 28 minutes ago [-]
> More opportunities will be posted here in the coming months. Click here to sign up for updates to stay informed when new roles open.
Would anyone like to do some citizen journalism and see if the Constant Contact data handling is done above-board. I've done some Claude research -- enough to make me suspicious -- but I Am Not A Lawyer.
ghostpepper 56 minutes ago [-]
How do they have budget for this but not for decent production values on the Artemis 2 livestream?
pcj-github 26 minutes ago [-]
This is so cringe. Who are the people behind this god awful "national design studio", and how are they related to MAGA / Trump? Assuredly yet another insider cronyism deal that degrades trust in the US government.
Claude:
The National Design Studio (NDS) is a new White House agency that Trump created by executive order on August 21, 2025, as part of an initiative called "America by Design." It lives inside the White House Office of the Executive Office of the President.
The setup
The executive order established the NDS along with a new position: Chief Design Officer of the United States
Trump appointed Joe Gebbia (Airbnb co-founder) as the first Chief Design Officer
Gebbia previously worked at DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) alongside Elon Musk on modernizing federal retirement paperwork
The stated goal: overhaul roughly 26,000 federal websites and physical government interfaces to be "both usable and beautiful" — Gebbia has compared the target experience to "the Apple Store"
Initial results are required by July 4, 2026 (the US 250th anniversary), and the temporary organization within NDS is scheduled to sunset after three years
righthand 20 minutes ago [-]
It’s the brain dead rebranding of what Trump thought USDS was doing.
doener 47 minutes ago [-]
As long as Trump is still President every sane human being should stay away from any federal agency.
xpe 42 minutes ago [-]
I understand the spirit of this comment (and I get it), but we want the opposite to be true. Let's find ways to support good people who step up.
Rooster61 1 minutes ago [-]
I think part of the point of OP was that this isn't a good way to support people to step up. It's frankly bizarre and has dubious future prospects like any other federal program under the current administration.
RIMR 15 minutes ago [-]
Given what we're facing, I am actually skeptical of people who step up to work for the government at this moment in time. There's a lot of nationalist language on this site. Even if your motivations are for science, do we really want to give any assistance to the goals of this administration?
hellojesus 10 minutes ago [-]
I think it's a bit of, "Be the change you want to see". It may not be a bad thing to get tech folk with sense into these roles. They probably tend to have enough of a cushion to be able to refuse unethical work without worrying about the immediate consequences.
nozzlegear 2 minutes ago [-]
NASA has always been a nationalist organization, but I don't think anyone's ever accused it of being partisan. I don't believe many Americans associate NASA with any particular president, except maybe JFK, and I don't believe they'd conflate working for NASA with working for Trump.
whatshisface 54 minutes ago [-]
"We fired all of our employees. Now we're hiring temporary consultants."
fhdkweig 36 minutes ago [-]
They used to be called scabs.
drstewart 34 minutes ago [-]
Can you point me to the ongoing strike by NASA employees?
drstewart 38 minutes ago [-]
Where did you see these were consultants?
The positions look term limited, just like 18F was under Obama
InvisibleUp 17 minutes ago [-]
Isn’t the Office of Personnel Management still under the control of DOGE? I’m wondering if this is an actual internship program or a way to sneak Elon Musk’s SpaceX buddies into NASA.
givinguflac 56 minutes ago [-]
This is so weird and vague; I am not interested for fear of all of it being for space defense. Nope for me.
dmazin 44 minutes ago [-]
Agreed.
That said if this bothers you I highly recommend not looking up how many Space Shuttle missions are classified.
35 minutes ago [-]
kube-system 18 minutes ago [-]
Technology and defense technology have been inextricably linked since the wheel and fire were new technologies.
Rendered at 17:24:05 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
- I like the rolling Moon animation very much.
- This seems like a clever way of getting talent involved during a budget squeeze, presumably with the hope that some of those they attract will still be around after this congress and the agency can stabilize once again. I guess it's also a neat kind of try-before-you-buy for both sides. NASA is prestigious and one of the very few places one could do purely science-focused aerospace engineering, but it's still a government job under all the gold leaf and atomic robots.
EDIT: Good Lord, I get the cynicism but at least someone at NASA HR is trying new things to keep the lights on.
Am I an idiot or does their leading sentence make absolutely no sense?
Charitably they're moving fast, but without already having people in mind for the roles or having created the hiring pipeline, how do you reach a sufficiently large audience. Is there an explanation I'm missing? Was this announced a while ago?
Makes it feel like they already know who they want for the roles/adverse selection. On a longer or recurring timescale, seems like a cool way to reach out to potential hires.
Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the fancy landing page (that provides zero actual info) if that's the case? No Data Science or developer openings for tech folk that don't have Abet certified engineering degrees?
I'd love to work for Nasa, but I live in Portland, OR. Does this geo basically disqualify me from ever joining Nasa?
And the pay range for the aerospace engineer is okayish, but it's not really out-competiting more senior tech folks in any capacity.
Either it's "We're hiring ~1000 IT/Engineering specialists across multiple domains" or it's "Hey, just apply on USAJobs for the open positions".
Otherwise it just feels like throwing an application into the black hole of some kafkaesque talent management system.
This is so strange.. I'm still not even clear on what it's for..
Intern project?
the space part gets the most attention
Ah yes, that 'waste of times' having to learn things in aeronautics and physics..
The developer of this scroll-smoothing JS library [1] has a lot to answer for.
[1]: https://www.lenis.dev/
Being no fan of the current administration and its hangers-on, my brain quickly jumps to less flattering reasons for these short time windows. A four day application window favors people they want to select. They may well have told certain people in advance to be ready. I don't have direct "proof" of this, and I'm open to learning more, but the current administration has beyond exhausted any presumption of fair dealing.
I encourage anyone and everyone interested to apply and report back. NASA has a good mission and its needs people with a moral backbone and intrinsic pro-science drive.
Even stranger, there's a countdown at the top that seems to be a day off.
> APPLICATIONS END IN T-02:19:37:14
Which links to: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/sKWkWfp
Would anyone like to do some citizen journalism and see if the Constant Contact data handling is done above-board. I've done some Claude research -- enough to make me suspicious -- but I Am Not A Lawyer.
Claude:
The National Design Studio (NDS) is a new White House agency that Trump created by executive order on August 21, 2025, as part of an initiative called "America by Design." It lives inside the White House Office of the Executive Office of the President.
The setup
The executive order established the NDS along with a new position: Chief Design Officer of the United States
Trump appointed Joe Gebbia (Airbnb co-founder) as the first Chief Design Officer
Gebbia previously worked at DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) alongside Elon Musk on modernizing federal retirement paperwork
The stated goal: overhaul roughly 26,000 federal websites and physical government interfaces to be "both usable and beautiful" — Gebbia has compared the target experience to "the Apple Store"
Initial results are required by July 4, 2026 (the US 250th anniversary), and the temporary organization within NDS is scheduled to sunset after three years
The positions look term limited, just like 18F was under Obama
That said if this bothers you I highly recommend not looking up how many Space Shuttle missions are classified.