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Space Jobs in the Dayton Area

29 open roles at 7 space companies name a site in the Dayton area, most of them in Beavercreek Township and Beavercreek. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring in the Dayton area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
KBR17$125k/yr
Leidos4$122k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton3$142k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation2not stated
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems1too few figures
Northrop Grumman1too few figures
US Space Force1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 04:02 UTC

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What people ask about space work in the Dayton area

Which space companies are hiring in the Dayton area?

Today, KBR (17 roles), Leidos (4 roles), Booz Allen Hamilton (3 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (2 roles), BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems (1 role), Northrop Grumman (1 role), and 1 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Dayton area.

Where in the Dayton area are the space jobs?

Most are in Beavercreek Township (12), Beavercreek (8), Dayton (5), Wright-Patterson AFB (3), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space jobs in the Dayton area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $124k/yr, with typical pay from $119k–$218k/yr; 51.3% of Ohio's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Ohio 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 1,400 aerospace engineers working in the Dayton area, in any industry, earn a median $129k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do space jobs in the Dayton area require US citizenship?

Of the 39 space postings in Ohio whose text we read, 20.5% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 74.4% 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 Dayton area (the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Greene, Miami and Montgomery 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.