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Space Jobs in the Houston Area

358 open roles at 15 space companies name a site in the Houston area, most of them in Houston and Webster. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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What the space companies do in the Houston area

Space companies hiring in the Houston area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Axiom Space120not stated
Amentum73$83.7k/yr
Intuitive Machines70not stated
Venus Aerospace23not stated
CACI17$116k/yr
KBR16too few figures
The Aerospace Corporation10not stated
Gravitics7$155k/yr
Leidos5$103k/yr
Lockheed Martin5$158k/yr
NASA4$173k/yr
The Exploration Company4not stated
Voyager Technologies2too few figures
Booz Allen Hamilton1too few figures
Trinzic1not stated

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 01:02 UTC

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Which space companies are hiring in the Houston area?

Today, Axiom Space (120 roles), Amentum (73 roles), Intuitive Machines (70 roles), Venus Aerospace (23 roles), CACI (17 roles), KBR (16 roles), and 9 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Houston area.

Where in the Houston area are the space jobs?

Most are in Houston (342), Webster (13), Johnson Space Center (3), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space jobs in the Houston area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $116k/yr, with typical pay from $83.7k–$198k/yr; 9.6% 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 1,890 aerospace engineers working in the Houston area, in any industry, earn a median $134k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do space jobs in the Houston area require US citizenship?

Of the 1,255 space postings in Texas whose text we read, 87.7% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 1.3% 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 Houston area (the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto and Waller 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.