How SpaceIndustry.jobs works
One map for every job in the space industry.
The jobs are scattered across dozens of employers, each with its own careers page, roles, pay, and quirks. SpaceIndustry.jobs tracks them all, pulls their open roles live, and compiles honest pay so you can act on facts, not word of mouth.
, SpaceIndustry.jobs lists 7,630 open space industry roles from the job boards of 41 employers in one place, read every hour, and compares the pay of all 41 employers it tracks.
Each role is counted once, however many cities or countries its employer posts it for, so the count is of space industry roles a person can apply to.
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The idea
Stop guessing where the work is.
Finding a job in the space industry usually means checking dozens of careers pages one by one. SpaceIndustry.jobs replaces the guessing with a single, always-current source.
Discover every employer
We track 41 space industry employers in one directory, with stated pay reaching $600k/yr. See who fits your skills and location.
Compare what the roles pay
Real pay benchmarks across 13 kinds of work, each labeled by how we know it, from live job feeds to employer-stated figures. No inflated marketing numbers.
Get matched and apply
We pull open roles live from the job feeds of the 41 employers hiring now (7,630 open right now), rank the ones that fit you, and link you straight to apply.
Where the work is
Employers worth your time.
Every profile has pay by role and its live open roles. Ordered by what applying is worth, lifted by a referral boost for the employers that pay us a referral fee; it never changes what an employer pays you.
Muon Space
Spacecraft & stations
Designs, builds and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations.
Hubble Network
Space data & services
A satellite network that connects Bluetooth devices directly to space.
Outpost
Spacecraft & stations
Reusable infrastructure for space logistics and manufacturing.
Turion Space
Spacecraft & stations
Spacecraft for space domain awareness and in-space services.
Momentus
Spacecraft & stations
Orbital transfer vehicles and in-space infrastructure services.
Inversion Space
Spacecraft & stations
Making space a transportation layer for Earth.
Xona Space Systems
Space data & services
Navigation infrastructure: centimeter-level positioning from low Earth orbit.
Albedo
Spacecraft & stations
Very-low-Earth-orbit satellites for high-resolution imagery.
Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft & stations
The first orbital manufacturing and reentry platform.
What it pays
Know your rate before you apply.
The spread is wide: an hour of work is worth $4.16k or $600k depending on the work and your skills. Here is the shape of it, from the lowest-paying kind of work to the top of the market.
| Type of work | What it is | Typical pay |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing & Technicians | Build the hardware with your hands and run the lines that make it: assembly, integration and test technicians, machinists and CNC programmers, welders, composites and additive manufacturing, electrical and harness technicians, and the manufacturing engineers who design the process. | $62k–$170k/yr |
| Launch & Mission Operations | Get vehicles off the ground and keep them flying: launch site and pad operations, launch control and range, recovery of reusable stages, mission operations and flight control, satellite and constellation operations, and ground station operations around the clock. | $104k–$210k/yr |
| Avionics & Electrical | Build the electrical heart of a rocket or satellite: flight computers and avionics boxes, power systems and batteries, harnesses, circuit boards, FPGAs and ASICs, and the electronics that must survive launch loads, vacuum and radiation. | $120k–$260k/yr |
| Science, Imaging & Earth Data | Turn what spacecraft see into knowledge: remote sensing and Earth observation, synthetic aperture radar and optical imaging, geospatial and intelligence analysis, data science and machine learning on satellite data, and the scientists who design missions and instruments. | $151k–$220k/yr |
Why trust our numbers
Every pay figure carries its receipts.
Salary sites run on inflated averages. SpaceIndustry.jobs labels every figure by how we know it, so you can tell a live wage from a hopeful estimate at a glance. Benchmarks are compiled from public sources; live data was last refreshed 2026-10-29.
Read the full methodology for exactly how each figure is sourced and kept current.
Every pay figure is labeled one of four ways
Live from job feed read straight from an employer's own open-role feed
Platform-stated published by the employer itself
Third-party reports from employee reports and aggregators
Estimate a range where no live source exists
How we stay free
Some links on this site are referral links. If you sign up through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes what an employer pays you.
Your next launch starts with the right role. Let’s find it.
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