Space employers
The companies and agencies behind the roles.
Each role on SpaceJobs.Now is read from the careers site of the company below that posted it, so every card shows that company's own pay ranges, sites and current openings. Set their pay side by side, go straight to the best-paying space employers, or start from the discipline you work in.
Launch & propulsion
Rocket and engine builders: the launch vehicle makers, their propulsion test sites and the factories behind both. Most openings are for engineers and shop-floor technicians, with launch crews at the pad and range.
Building Nova, a fully and rapidly reusable rocket.
Washington and Florida
Rockets and rocket engines, built in Alameda, California.
Builds the New Shepard and New Glenn rockets and the Blue Moon lunar lander.
Getting accepted
Starliner, the SLS core stage, the X-37B and the Space Station, inside an aerospace prime.
Launches, lands and operates space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond.
Texas and California
Prime contractor of the Ariane 6 rocket, with its defense work on the same board.
Les Mureaux, Vernon and Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, France; Lampoldshausen and Bremen, Germany; Kourou, French Guiana
Sells and runs launches on Europe's Ariane 6 rocket.
Évry-Courcouronnes and Les Mureaux, France
Develops reusable spaceplanes and refuellable satellite propulsion.
Christchurch, New Zealand; Delft, Netherlands; Toulouse, France
Books rides to orbit for small satellites and builds the deployers that release them.
Berlin, Germany
Reusable suborbital rockets that fly research payloads.
Small rockets driven by hybrid motors that burn paraffin.
Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany; Glasgow, United Kingdom
Hybrid rocket engines for small launch vehicles.
Le Haillan, France
11 more in launch & propulsion, grouped by US state
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Spacecraft & stations
Satellite manufacturers, crew vehicle and station builders, lunar lander teams and the subsystem suppliers that feed them, staffing design, integration and environmental test.
Designs, builds and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations.
California, Virginia and Colorado
Anduril
Space surveillance, satellites and space ground systems (the space business of a defense technology company)
Anduril's space business: spacecraft, orbital and ground systems engineers in Costa Mesa, Colorado Springs and northern Virginia.
Reusable infrastructure for space logistics and manufacturing.
Satellites and rockets for solar-powered computing in low Earth orbit.
Washington and California
Supernova, a spacecraft that changes orbit on solar thermal propulsion.
Spacecraft and software for space security.
Johns Hopkins APL
A university research lab that builds and flies NASA and national security spacecraft
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's Space Exploration Sector, which built New Horizons, Parker Solar Probe and DART, hiring in Laurel, Maryland.
Maryland, California and Colorado
Spacecraft for space domain awareness and in-space services.
Rovers that carry cargo and crews on the Moon and Mars.
Making space a transportation layer for Earth.
Spacecraft, instruments and mission systems from the former Ball Aerospace, now inside BAE Systems.
Orbital transfer vehicles and in-space infrastructure services.
57 more in spacecraft & stations, grouped by US state
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Space data & services
Operators of what is already in orbit and sellers of what comes down from it: ground networks, Earth imagery and analytics, satellite communications, mission software and in-orbit servicing.
Radar satellites and the 3D images of Earth built from them.
A satellite network that connects Bluetooth devices directly to space.
California and Washington
Radar satellites and the imagery they collect, plus satellite systems built to order.
Santa Barbara, CA; Arlington and Reston, VA; remote in the United States
Amazon's satellite internet constellation, formerly Project Kuiper: satellites, launches, ground stations and the terminals customers use.
Getting accepted
MITRE
A not-for-profit research organization running federally funded centers, including space systems engineering for the Space Force
MITRE's space work: systems engineering for the Space Force and space programs at its Colorado Springs and El Segundo sites.
A low-orbit satellite platform that links large numbers of small devices.
California and Texas
Radar network and data for tracking objects in low Earth orbit.
California, Colorado and Virginia
KBR's government engineering business, supporting NASA human spaceflight and space security missions.
Navigation infrastructure: centimeter-level positioning from low Earth orbit.
Flat, electronically steered antennas that link vehicles and remote sites to satellites.
Space infrastructure that lets any organization fly a mission.
Colorado and California
Software for operating satellites and space missions.
46 more in space data & services, grouped by US state
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AI training programs
Remote contract programs that pay engineers and scientists to check and improve model answers in their own field, worked beside a regular job rather than instead of one. Weighing several of them? Our team also runs AITraining.jobs, which ranks AI training platforms by what they typically pay and how often they accept people.
Sovrano AI
Expert AI evaluation (Europe)
A Barcelona company paying professionals to evaluate AI models in their own field, invoiced monthly in euros.
Remote
Anyone AI
Expert AI-trainer contracts
STEM, software and finance experts build training and evaluation data for AI labs on rated contracts.
Remote
Fleet AI
RL-environment fellowship
Contract engineers and experts write tasks and grading criteria for AI agents that learn enterprise software.
Remote
Turing
Expert contracts for frontier AI labs
Coding, reasoning and domain-expert contracts producing human data for frontier AI labs, paid monthly.
Remote
Hashlist
Paid AI evaluation tasks for engineers
Engineers build agent tasks, sandboxed environments and verifier tests for AI labs on Hashlist's data platform.
Remote
SuperAnnotate (SME)
Managed expert network
SME Careers matches vetted subject-matter experts to managed AI-training projects, paid weekly.
Remote
Terac
Verified-expert studies
Paid studies and AI-training tasks for verified experts, each showing its pay before you accept.
Remote
RemoExperts
Credentialed contributors
Degreed scientists, engineers and other professionals train and evaluate AI models, paid by the hour.
Remote
RealTrainAI
Credential-matched network
A free screening service that matches credentialed applicants to third-party AI training and evaluation projects.
Remote
Outlier
AI-training contributor platform
Scale AI's platform of remote AI-training projects for experts, each stating its top hourly rate.
Remote
AfterQuery
Expert reasoning capture
Specialists write worked examples, reasoning traces and grading rubrics for frontier AI labs, paid weekly.
Remote
micro1
AI-vetted expert marketplace
Hourly AI-training contracts for engineers, scientists and developers, matched after an AI interview.
Remote
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Other ways in
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Picking a company first is one route. You can also start from the engineering or operations work you do, line up pay across the industry, or set two employers against each other.
Start from your discipline
Propulsion, avionics, GNC and flight software, test, manufacturing, mission operations and the business side, each with its openings, who is staffing it and the ranges posted.
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The yearly ranges space employers put on their postings, split by discipline and by company, plus a calculator that turns a range into take-home figures.
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Matchups of space companies that compete for the same people: their posted ranges, openings by discipline and the sites each one staffs.
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