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CesiumAstro
About CesiumAstro
CesiumAstro builds communications systems and satellite hardware: software-defined radios, phased-array payloads and satcom terminals for space, airborne and defense customers. It hires mainly in Westminster, Colorado, Austin, Texas, El Segundo, California and Melbourne, Florida, with smaller teams in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Typical pay, live
, the SpaceJobs.Now board shows 301 open CesiumAstro roles; typical pay across them is $125k to $232k a year (median $147k).
Live CesiumAstro roles
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 22:02 UTC- $133,000–$161000/yr
Associate Manager, Software Engineering (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Austin, TX· 2mo agoDetails
Summer 2027 - Mechanical Engineering Internship (opens the job details)
Mechanical · Austin, TX· 1mo agoDetails
Vice President, Global Facilities (opens the job details)
Supply Chain · Austin, TX· 2w agoDetails
Summer 2027 - Electrical Engineering Internship, RF (opens the job details)
RF & Payloads · Westminster, CO, United States· 1mo agoDetails
Program Manager I (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Westminster, CO, United States· 2w agoDetails
$113,000–$136000/yrAssociate Manager, Software Engineering (opens the job details)
Software & IT · Westminster, CO, United States· 2mo agoDetails
$136,000–$167000/yr- $139,500–$192000/yr
Director, Program Management (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Huntsville, AL· 1w agoDetails
Program Manager (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Westminster, CO, United States· 6mo agoDetails
$113,000–$136000/yrCorporate Controller (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Austin, TX· 1w agoDetails
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About CesiumAstro
Software-defined radios, phased-array payloads and satcom terminals for space and defense. It pays $125k–$232k/yr typically (median $147k/yr).
Hiring now, with pay we measure from its own live feed301 open roles on CesiumAstro, independently checked 31 Oct 2026.
Paid as an employee on CesiumAstro's own payroll (salaried or hourly, as each posting states).
Westminster, CO; Austin, TX; El Segundo, CA; Melbourne, FL; Munich, Germany; Cambridge and Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
What CesiumAstro pays
From current postings · as of 31 Oct 2026Median $147k/yr, taken across 160 postings with a stated rate. Posted rates go as low as $12.1k/yr and as high as $371k/yr.
Measured from 155 distinct posted rates, at this employer, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 141 of the 301 listings open here post no pay at all.
Best-paid CesiumAstro openings today
All 301 by payVice President of Business Development (Commercial) (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · El Segundo, CA· 4w agoDetails
$303,466–$370903/yrVice President of Business Development (Commercial) (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Westminster, CO, United States· 4w agoDetails
$289,672–$354044/yrDirector of Business Development, National Security & Intelligence (opens the job details)
Programs & Business · Washington D.C., United States· 1y+ agoDetails
$225,000–$290000/yrRF Communication System Architect (opens the job details)
RF & Payloads · El Segundo, CA· 1mo agoDetails
$228,000–$279000/yrRF Systems Architect (opens the job details)
RF & Payloads · El Segundo, CA· 5mo agoDetails
$228,000–$279000/yr
“Typical” here means 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; every role list on this site uses that one definition. Our methods page explains where each pay number comes from and how sure we are of it.
The work CesiumAstro hires for
Open any of them for the day-to-day tasks, the other employers hiring for it, and the market rate.
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What our research measures about CesiumAstro
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring282 open roles, 1.8% of all the space roles we read, across 11 kinds of work; 93 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Who can apply93.6% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 6.0% name a security clearance.
- Degrees and experience11.7% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 32.3% name a master's or PhD.
- Degrees and experience5 of its open postings count military experience toward what they ask.
- Pay transparency55.0% of the postings state their pay, at a median $147,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level14 open roles are for someone starting out (5.0% of its open roles), 9 of them internships or co-ops.
- Shifts, weekends and travel0.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 0.0% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- Who can applyIt had 1 H-1B visa application and no green card (PERM) certification from 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Jun 2026, by the Department of Labor's public data (which space companies sponsor H-1B visas and green cards).
- What applications askIts application forms ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (93.6% of them), about a security clearance (90.4% of them) and your GPA (3.2% of them).
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Frequently asked questions
What does CesiumAstro do?
Software-defined radios, phased-array payloads and satcom terminals for space and defense.
How much does CesiumAstro pay?
Openings at CesiumAstro pay $125k–$232k/yr in the usual case, and the midpoint sits at $147k/yr. We take both from the 160 current postings with a stated rate. The lowest posted rate is $12.1k/yr; the highest is $371k/yr.
What is it like to work at CesiumAstro?
CesiumAstro pays $125k–$232k/yr typically (median $147k/yr).
Which locations does CesiumAstro hire in?
Westminster, CO; Austin, TX; El Segundo, CA; Melbourne, FL; Munich, Germany; Cambridge and Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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