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Varda Space Industries jobs
Varda Space Industries flies what it calls the world's first orbital manufacturing and reentry platform: spacecraft that make materials and pharmaceuticals in orbit and bring them back through reentry capsules. It hires in El Segundo, California.
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 126 open jobs at Varda Space Industries; their typical pay runs $136k to $263k a year, with a median of $160k.
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Latest Varda Space Industries openings
Read 7 Nov 2026, 10:02 UTCCNC Lathe Machinist I and II, Prototype Shop (opens the job details)
Technicians · El Segundo, California, United States · todayDetails
$29–$40/hrSenior Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Controls (GNC) Engineer (opens the job details)
Flight Software · El Segundo, California, United States · 1d agoDetails
$169,067–$216,031/yrSite Reliability Internship - Summer 2027 (opens the job details)
Software & IT · El Segundo, California, United States · todayDetails
Senior CNC 5-Axis Mill Machinist, Prototype Shop (opens the job details)
Technicians · El Segundo, California, United States · todayDetails
$46.75–$63.25/hrSenior CNC Multi-Axis Lathe Machinist, Prototype Shop (opens the job details)
Technicians · El Segundo, California, United States · todayDetails
$46.75–$63.25/hrSenior Mechanical Design Engineer, Controls (opens the job details)
Mechanical · El Segundo, California, United States · todayDetails
$140,333–$179,314/yrSenior Automation & Controls Engineer (opens the job details)
Technicians · El Segundo, California, United States · todayDetails
$140,333–$179,314/yrSenior Spacecraft Build Reliability Engineer, Hardware (opens the job details)
Quality · El Segundo, California, United States · 1d agoDetails
$140,333–$179,314/yrSenior Space Mission Operations Engineer (opens the job details)
Launch & Ops · El Segundo, California, United States · 1d agoDetails
$140,333–$179,314/yrSenior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer (opens the job details)
Flight Software · El Segundo, California, United States · 1d agoDetails
$169,067–$216,031/yrSenior Spacecraft Flight Software Engineer (opens the job details)
Flight Software · El Segundo, California, United States · 1d agoDetails
$169,067–$216,031/yrSenior Spacecraft Embedded Software Engineer (opens the job details)
Flight Software · El Segundo, California, United States · 1d agoDetails
$169,067–$216,031/yr
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Varda Space Industries at a glance
Varda Space Industries flies what it calls the world's first orbital manufacturing and reentry platform: spacecraft that make materials and pharmaceuticals in orbit and bring them back through reentry capsules. It hires in El Segundo, California.
126 roles taken from its careers site on 2026-11-07A recruiter wrote to you in Varda Space Industries's name?
Varda Space Industries's own sites: varda.com.
What Varda Space Industries pays
Read from the ranges on its open jobs · 2026-11-07The median is $160k/yr over the 99 open jobs with a posted range, and single figures go from $60.3k/yr up to $317k/yr. Interns, technicians and senior engineers all sit in that figure; the table below separates the disciplines.
Measured from 99 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 27 of the 126 open jobs here state no pay.
The top-paying Varda Space Industries jobs open now
Every 126, highest pay firstPrincipal RF Components Engineer (opens the job details)
RF & Payloads · El Segundo, California, United States · 4w agoDetails
$219,161–$316,566/yrDirector of Business Development & Capture - Advanced Concepts (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · El Segundo, California +3 more · 3w agoDetails
$243,360–$310,960/yrDirector, Payload Systems Integration & Test (opens the job details)
Systems & Test · El Segundo, California, United States · 1mo agoDetails
$192,500–$278,056/yrMaterials and Process Engineer (opens the job details)
Technicians · El Segundo, California, United States · 1d agoDetails
$181,913–$262,763/yrPrincipal Space Avionics Hardware Development Engineer (opens the job details)
Avionics · El Segundo, California, United States · 1w agoDetails
$181,913–$262,763/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 Varda Space Industries looks for
The usual bar in each discipline Varda Space Industries 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.
Often no degree: a trade school, apprenticeship or military background, plus certifications such as welding or IPC.
A mechanical or aerospace engineering degree; CAD (NX, CATIA, SolidWorks) and FEA analysis for most roles.
A business, finance, law or engineering degree; program managers often hold a PMP or an engineering background.
An engineering degree; test technicians often come from the military or a technical program.
A computer science, aerospace or electrical engineering degree; C/C++ for flight code, control theory for GNC.
Usually a mechanical or aerospace engineering degree; technicians and test operators often start from a trade or the military.
Varda Space Industries's disciplines
Each discipline page covers the work itself, the usual entry bar and the pay posted for it across the industry.
Varda Space Industries pay by occupation, from its own postings: Systems engineer pay, Mechanical engineer pay, Propulsion engineer pay, Manufacturing engineer pay, HR professional pay.
For the wider picture, open the pay tables for every discipline or the space employers that pay the most.
Varda Space Industries sites with openings
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Open jobs at Varda Space Industries since Feb 2023
How many jobs Varda Space Industries's own careers board listed, month by month, counted from the copies the Internet Archive kept of that board, and the same board on 6 Nov 2026. A month with no copy has no point, and each month links to the copy it was counted from.
Jobs on its own careers board
Feb 2023: 22 · low 14 (May 2024) · Sep 2026: 89 · today 124
Every month's count
- Feb 2023: 22
- Mar 2023: 20
- Apr 2023: 17
- Sep 2023: 18
- Dec 2023: 19
- Feb 2024: 17
- Apr 2024: 17
- May 2024: 14
- Sep 2024: 28
- Oct 2024: 28
- Nov 2024: 37
- Dec 2024: 33
- Jan 2025: 32
- Feb 2025: 39
- Mar 2025: 39
- Apr 2025: 41
- May 2025: 45
- Jun 2025: 47
- Jul 2025: 45
- Aug 2025: 39
- Sep 2025: 78
- Oct 2025: 80
- Dec 2025: 77
- Apr 2026: 64
- Jun 2026: 84
- Jul 2026: 90
- Sep 2026: 89
- 6 Nov 2026: 124 (the board today)
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What does Varda Space Industries pay?
Across the 99 open Varda Space Industries jobs that give a pay range, the middle of the market is $136k–$263k/yr and the median $160k/yr. The lowest posted figure is $60.3k/yr and the highest $317k/yr. These are base salary ranges as the postings give them; equity, bonuses and relocation help come on top where offered.
Which disciplines is Varda Space Industries staffing?
Of its 126 openings, the largest groups are manufacturing & technicians (33), mechanical, structures & thermal (18) and programs & business (12).
What does Varda Space Industries ask for in space manufacturing and technician jobs?
Often no degree: a trade school, apprenticeship or military background, plus certifications such as welding or IPC. The exact bar is in each Varda Space Industries posting.
How fresh is this list of Varda Space Industries roles?
We read Varda Space Industries's public careers site every night. A role stays here as long as Varda Space Industries keeps it up, dated with our last check.
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