Group photo from February 2015 marking the departure of a Dragon capsule from SpaceX headquarters.

With a busy launch manifest and big backlog, SpaceX is the fastest growing provider of launch services and one the hardest places to land a job. Here are three things you should know if you’re bold enough to throw your name into the ring.

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Brian Berger is editor in chief of SpaceNews.com and the SpaceNews magazine. He joined SpaceNews.com in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until being named...