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Space Jobs in the Los Angeles Area

3,637 open roles at 45 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Long Beach and Hawthorne; typical pay runs $115k–$246k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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What the space companies do in the Los Angeles area

Space companies hiring in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX721$135k/yr
Relativity Space319$148k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation277not stated
Rocket Lab237$130k/yr
K2 Space199$158k/yr
Impulse Space193$150k/yr
Vast176$143k/yr
True Anomaly170$173k/yr
Northrop Grumman168$143k/yr
Apex121$155k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)118$124k/yr
Varda Space Industries115$160k/yr
Inversion Space82$165k/yr
Boeing71$159k/yr
Anduril62$195k/yr
Northwood Space57$143k/yr
KBR49$153k/yr
Millennium Space Systems45$146k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton44$142k/yr
CesiumAstro44$154k/yr
Astrolab43$174k/yr
Amazon Leo36$152k/yr
L3Harris32$109k/yr
Blue Origin26$145k/yr
Terran Orbital26$135k/yr

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Updated 1 Nov 2026, 00:02 UTC

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What people ask about space work in the Los Angeles area

Which space companies are hiring in the Los Angeles area?

Today, SpaceX (721 roles), Relativity Space (319 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (277 roles), Rocket Lab (237 roles), K2 Space (199 roles), Impulse Space (193 roles), and 39 more. The table above lists the 25 with the most roles open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the space jobs?

Most are in Long Beach (899), Hawthorne (777), El Segundo (690), Los Angeles (383), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space jobs in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $146k/yr, with typical pay from $115k–$246k/yr; 91.9% of California's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. California's law has required employers with 15 or more employees to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Jan 2023 (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 5,200 aerospace engineers working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $163k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do space jobs in the Los Angeles area require US citizenship?

Of the 5,108 space postings in California whose text we read, 76.1% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 36.4% 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 Los Angeles area (the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Los Angeles and Orange 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.