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Space Jobs in the Austin Area

727 open roles at 5 space companies name a site in the Austin area, most of them in Bastrop and Austin. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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What the space companies do in the Austin area

Space companies hiring in the Austin area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX530$203k/yr
CesiumAstro92too few figures
Firefly Aerospace53not stated
Amazon Leo31$184k/yr
Blue Origin21$218k/yr

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Updated 1 Nov 2026, 05:02 UTC

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Which space companies are hiring in the Austin area?

Today, SpaceX (530 roles), CesiumAstro (92 roles), Firefly Aerospace (53 roles), Amazon Leo (31 roles), Blue Origin (21 roles). The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Austin area.

Where in the Austin area are the space jobs?

Most are in Bastrop (499), Austin (154), Cedar Park (53), Hutto (21), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space jobs in the Austin area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $184k/yr, with typical pay from $178k–$271k/yr; 10.2% of Texas's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Texas has no law requiring a pay range in job postings, so a posting there can leave pay out (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 390 aerospace engineers working in the Austin area, in any industry, earn a median $123k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do space jobs in the Austin area require US citizenship?

Of the 1,865 space postings in Texas whose text we read, 80.3% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 3.8% name a security clearance, by our research on who can apply, which compares every state. Each posting states its own rule, often citing export control under ITAR or the EAR.

How is this list made?

We read each employer's own job board every hour. A role is listed here when it is a US role and its own location line names a place in the Austin area (the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties), by the same reading as our research on where space jobs are; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.