Plan competencies before you start recruiting.
A DLGX report on competencies and staffing challenges in the Polish space sector. Based on in-depth interviews with founders, technical and quality leaders, engineers, HR teams, educators and people starting their careers.
- Why some specialists are so hard to find: a real shortage, or too many requirements packed into one role?
- How engineers from automotive, aviation, defence or pharma can bring their experience into space
- How long a new hire needs to work independently, and what juniors need from senior engineers
- What changes when a company moves from prototype to product, and what is lost when a key engineer leaves
Inside the report
Ten chapters built around real cases. Written for owners, CTOs, project managers, engineering leads and HR teams who build teams in the space sector.
Plan competencies before you recruit
FPGA: the real scope hidden behind a job title
Systems engineering and growing responsibility in a project
Product Assurance needs a team of competencies
Transfer from other industries works through similar responsibility
Juniors need planned access to knowledge
A student project counts when it shows personal contribution
From prototype to product: who owns the customer, quality and delivery?
Losing an employee and losing competencies are problems of different scale
Eight decisions for the next 12–24 months
Also useful for engineers changing jobs, students and universities, industry organisations and investors.
Built on conversations, not scraped job ads.
This is a qualitative study. Kenneth and Anthony Długosz interviewed founders, technical and quality leaders, specialists, HR teams, educators, students and young engineers connected to the Polish space sector.
The report shows mechanisms and decisions behind hiring problems. It is not a statistical survey of the whole sector, and it says so where the evidence is limited.
Get the reportadmin@dlgx:~$ ./build_report --year=2026 [OK] In-depth interviews: 25 (26 people) [OK] Fieldwork: 07.07 – 22.09.2026 [OK] Surveys: employers n=7, talent n=8 [OK] Cross-checked with ECSS and ISO [OK] Benchmark: 1 space company abroad # topics: hiring, transfer, onboarding, education, # retention, scaling from demo to product admin@dlgx:~$ export --format=pdf Status: Report ready for download.
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Competencies and staffing challenges in the Polish space sector
Ten chapters, case studies and eight decisions for the next 12–24 months. In Polish.
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