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Space Jobs in the Baltimore Area

117 open roles at 9 space companies name a site in the Baltimore area, most of them in Middle River and Linthicum; typical pay runs $87.3k–$257k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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What the space companies do in the Baltimore area

  • Middle River is Rocket Lab's Space Structures Complex, 113,000 square feet in Lockheed Martin's former plant, where it makes carbon composite spacecraft buses, panels, dispensers and heat shields and parts of its Neutron rocket. (Source: Rocket Lab) Every space job in Middle River →

Space companies hiring in the Baltimore area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Northrop Grumman48$150k/yr
Rocket Lab38$83.2k/yr
Intuitive Machines10$84k/yr
Lockheed Martin9$207k/yr
SpaceX5$60.8k/yr
Viasat4$155k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton1too few figures
KBR1too few figures
RTX1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 22:02 UTC

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Which space companies are hiring in the Baltimore area?

Today, Northrop Grumman (48 roles), Rocket Lab (38 roles), Intuitive Machines (10 roles), Lockheed Martin (9 roles), SpaceX (5 roles), Viasat (4 roles), and 3 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Baltimore area.

Where in the Baltimore area are the space jobs?

Most are in Middle River (38), Linthicum (32), Baltimore (10), Glen Burnie (10), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space jobs in the Baltimore area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $129k/yr, with typical pay from $87.3k–$257k/yr; 79.4% of Maryland's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Maryland's law has required every employer, for work done at least partly in Maryland to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Oct 2024 (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 1,220 aerospace engineers working in the Baltimore area, in any industry, earn a median $167k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do space jobs in the Baltimore area require US citizenship?

Of the 245 space postings in Maryland whose text we read, 56.7% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 44.1% 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 Baltimore area (the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Anne Arundel County, Baltimore city, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Harford County, Howard County and Queen Anne's County), by the same reading as our research on where space jobs are; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.