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Loft Orbital Software Engineer Salary

Loft Orbital's 25 open roles for software engineers post a median $173k/yr, typically $168k–$240k/yr, from 11 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.

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Against other pay

Every Loft Orbital role
median $165k/yr
Loft Orbital's software engineers: 5% above it
Software engineers at every space company
median $169k/yr
Loft Orbital: 2% above it
All US software developers, May 2025
median $136k/yr
Loft Orbital's postings: 27% above it
Highest posted top
$275k/yr
Director of Embedded Software & FPGA Engineering

Typical pay 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. Pay is compared as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours (40 a week for 52 weeks), a weekly one at 52 weeks, a monthly one at 12 months. A posting that names only a ceiling ("up to $X") is left out of the figures.

Loft Orbital software engineer pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Senior1Too few figures
Director, head or vice president1Too few figures
Title names no level23$173k/yr$165k–$228k/yr

A level is read from the title, the first that applies from an internship to a director (the reading of our research on career levels and pay). A figure needs three distinct posted rates.

Where Loft Orbital hires software engineers

  • Golden, CO10 roles, median $174k/yr
  • France8 roles
  • San Francisco, CA8 roles, median $173k/yr
  • United Arab Emirates1 role

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 18:02 UTC

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Questions about Loft Orbital pay for software engineers

How much does Loft Orbital pay software engineers?

Loft Orbital's open roles for software engineers post a median $173k/yr, typically $168k–$240k/yr, from 11 distinct pay figures in 16 of its 25 postings. Typical pay here 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. The highest posted top is $275k/yr, for Director of Embedded Software & FPGA Engineering.

Does Loft Orbital pay software engineers more than other space companies?

Loft Orbital's median, $173k/yr, is 2% above the $169k/yr median of the 1,992 open roles for software engineers at every space company we read (Loft Orbital's among them).

Do software engineers earn more than other roles at Loft Orbital?

Loft Orbital's roles for software engineers post a median $173k/yr, 5% above the $165k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (Loft Orbital salaries compares every kind of work).

How does Loft Orbital's pay for software engineers compare with the national wage?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the national median wage of software developers at $136k/yr (May 2025); Loft Orbital's posted median, $173k/yr, is 27% above it. A posting states what a new hire is offered, the national figure what everyone in the occupation earns, so the two measure different people. Source: BLS wage estimates by state (OEWS, May 2025), read through O*NET OnLine, CC BY 4.0.

Where does Loft Orbital hire software engineers?

Its open roles for software engineers are in Golden, CO (10), France (8), San Francisco, CA (8) and United Arab Emirates (1). By place, they post a median of $174k/yr in Golden, CO and $173k/yr in San Francisco, CA.