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Overview Energy jobs
Overview Energy is developing space-based solar power: satellites that gather sunlight and beam the energy to solar farms already on the ground. It hires at its headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, and lists a couple of openings, among them electrical and optics roles.
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 4 open jobs at Overview Energy; their typical pay runs $136k to $170k a year, with a median of $141k.
Typical pay, live
Latest Overview Energy openings
Read 7 Nov 2026, 10:02 UTCSpacecraft Thermal Engineer (opens the job details)
Mechanical · Ashburn HQ · 3d agoDetails
$120,000–$170,000/yrStructural Dynamics Lead (opens the job details)
Mechanical · Ashburn HQ · 3d agoDetails
$120,000–$170,000/yr- $110,000–$150,000/yr
Optics Lab Manager (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · Ashburn HQ · 3w agoDetails
$110,000–$165,000/yr
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Overview Energy at a glance
Overview Energy is developing space-based solar power: satellites that gather sunlight and beam the energy to solar farms already on the ground. It hires at its headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, and lists a couple of openings, among them electrical and optics roles.
4 roles taken from its careers site on 2026-11-07A recruiter wrote to you in Overview Energy's name?
Overview Energy's own sites: overviewenergy.com · jobs.ashbyhq.com/overviewenergy.
What Overview Energy pays
Read from the ranges on its open jobs · 2026-11-07The median is $141k/yr over the 4 open jobs with a posted range, and single figures go from $110k/yr up to $170k/yr. Interns, technicians and senior engineers all sit in that figure; the table below separates the disciplines.
Measured from 4 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours).
The top-paying Overview Energy jobs open now
Every 4, highest pay firstSpacecraft Thermal Engineer (opens the job details)
Mechanical · Ashburn HQ · 3d agoDetails
$120,000–$170,000/yrStructural Dynamics Lead (opens the job details)
Mechanical · Ashburn HQ · 3d agoDetails
$120,000–$170,000/yrOptics Lab Manager (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · Ashburn HQ · 3w agoDetails
$110,000–$165,000/yr- $110,000–$150,000/yr
The middle half is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top, measured the same way for every list on the site. A posting's range is base salary only: stock, sign-on money and bonuses are extra where a company offers them. The methodology explains how each pay figure is measured and graded.
What Overview Energy looks for
The usual bar in each discipline Overview Energy is staffing right now. A posting can ask for more or less (a clearance, a degree, years on hardware), so check the role itself before applying.
A mechanical or aerospace engineering degree; CAD (NX, CATIA, SolidWorks) and FEA analysis for most roles.
An electrical or computer engineering degree; harness and board technicians often hold IPC certifications.
An engineering degree; test technicians often come from the military or a technical program.
Overview Energy's disciplines
Each discipline page covers the work itself, the usual entry bar and the pay posted for it across the industry.
For the wider picture, open the pay tables for every discipline or the space employers that pay the most.
Questions about Overview Energy
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What does Overview Energy pay?
Across the 4 open Overview Energy jobs that give a pay range, the middle of the market is $136k–$170k/yr and the median $141k/yr. The lowest posted figure is $110k/yr and the highest $170k/yr. These are base salary ranges as the postings give them; equity, bonuses and relocation help come on top where offered.
Which disciplines is Overview Energy staffing?
Of its 4 openings, the largest groups are mechanical, structures & thermal (2), avionics & electrical (1) and systems, integration & test (1).
What does Overview Energy ask for in mechanical, structures and thermal engineering jobs in space?
A mechanical or aerospace engineering degree; CAD (NX, CATIA, SolidWorks) and FEA analysis for most roles. The exact bar is in each Overview Energy posting.
How fresh is this list of Overview Energy roles?
We read Overview Energy's public careers site every night. A role stays here as long as Overview Energy keeps it up, dated with our last check.
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