Skip to content

Space jobs by metro area

Space Jobs in the Boston Area

41 open roles at 8 space companies name a site in the Boston area, most of them in Marlborough, MA and Wilmington, MA; typical pay runs $117k–$256k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

Browse the rolesThe Boston area in the research on where space jobs are →Every metro area →

Space companies hiring in the Boston area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
L3Harris13too few figures
Viasat10$156k/yr
Redwire5$116k/yr
RTX5$126k/yr
KBR3$159k/yr
Anduril2too few figures
Revolution Space2too few figures
The Aerospace Corporation1not stated

Where the roles are

Kinds of work

Cleared roles in the Boston area

Professions hiring in the Boston area

Open space jobs in the Boston area, newest first

Updated 31 Oct 2026, 22:02 UTC

Weekly roles email

Space openings, sent to your inbox

The newest roles at every employer we track, with the pay each states, in one weekly email. Free, and unsubscribe anytime.

Only job openings, never promotions. Stop it from any email.

What people ask about space work in the Boston area

Which space companies are hiring in the Boston area?

Today, L3Harris (13 roles), Viasat (10 roles), Redwire (5 roles), RTX (5 roles), KBR (3 roles), Anduril (2 roles), and 2 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Boston area.

Where in the Boston area are the space jobs?

Most are in Marlborough, MA (18), Wilmington, MA (13), Boston, MA (3), Lexington, MA (3), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space jobs in the Boston area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $151k/yr, with typical pay from $117k–$256k/yr. For reference, the 960 aerospace engineers working in the Boston area, in any industry, earn a median $149k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do space jobs in the Boston area require US citizenship?

Many do: rocket, spacecraft and satellite work is often export-controlled under ITAR or the EAR, so most roles at US space employers are open only to US citizens or US persons, as each posting states. Our research on who can apply measures it employer by employer.

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 Boston area (the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Rockingham, Strafford and Suffolk 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.