Pay from True Anomaly's own postings
True Anomaly Test Engineer Salary
True Anomaly's 12 open roles for test engineers post a median $149k/yr, typically $110k–$228k/yr, from 12 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.
Against other pay
- Highest posted top
- $250k/yr
- Engineering Manager, Propulsion Development and Test
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.
True Anomaly test engineer pay by level
| Level the title names | Open roles | Median | Typical pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | 2 | Too few figures | |
| Title names no level | 10 | $146k/yr | $110k–$197k/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 True Anomaly hires test engineers
- Long Beach, CA9 roles, median $150k/yr
- Denver, CO4 roles, median $151k/yr
Open True Anomaly roles for test engineers, highest pay first
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 01:02 UTC
Engineering Manager, Propulsion Development and Test (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Propulsion · Denver, CO· 2mo agoDetails
$140,000–$250,000/yr
Engineering Manager Test and Launch Site (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Launch & Ops · Long Beach, CA· 5mo agoDetails
$150,000–$230,000/yr
Component Test Engineer (II-Senior) (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Long Beach, CA· 2mo agoDetails
$100,000–$210,000/yr
Fluids and Propulsion Test Engineer (III-Senior) (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Long Beach, CA· 6mo agoDetails
$120,000–$195,000/yr
Ground & Flight Test Engineer, Integration & Safety (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA· 5mo agoDetails
$120,000–$195,000/yr
Data and Controls Systems Test Engineer (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Long Beach, CA· 3mo agoDetails
$125,000–$175,000/yr
Hardware and Environments Test Engineer (III-Senior) (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Long Beach, CA· 3mo agoDetails
$120,000–$175,000/yr
Environmental Health and Safety Test Site Engineer (III-Senior) (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Quality · Denver, CO· 3mo agoDetails
$120,000–$170,000/yr
Avionics Test Engineer (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Long Beach, CA· 5mo agoDetails
$100,000–$120,000/yr
Mechanical Test Engineer (II-Senior) (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Long Beach, CA· 3mo agoDetails
$100,000–$120,000/yr
Test Engineer (I or II) (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Denver, CO· 9mo agoDetails
$70,000–$110,000/yr
Systems Test Engineer (opens the job details)
True Anomaly · Systems & Test · Long Beach, CA· 5mo agoDetails
$85,000–$105,000/yr
More True Anomaly salaries by profession
- Software Engineer, median $198k/yr
- Electrical Engineer, median $176k/yr
- Propulsion Engineer, median $195k/yr
- Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer, median $198k/yr
- Mechanical Engineer, median $133k/yr
Test Engineer salaries at other space companies
- Blue Origin, median $145k/yr
- SpaceX, median $133k/yr
- Amazon Leo, median $160k/yr
- Lockheed Martin, median $126k/yr
- Rocket Lab, median $113k/yr
- Northrop Grumman, median $136k/yr
- Impulse Space, median $133k/yr
- Relativity Space, median $136k/yr
- Vast, median $153k/yr
- K2 Space, median $158k/yr
- Muon Space, median $196k/yr
- Viasat, median $155k/yr
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Questions about True Anomaly pay for test engineers
How much does True Anomaly pay test engineers?
True Anomaly's open roles for test engineers post a median $149k/yr, typically $110k–$228k/yr, from 12 distinct pay figures in 12 of its 12 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 $250k/yr, for Engineering Manager, Propulsion Development and Test.
Does True Anomaly pay test engineers more than other space companies?
True Anomaly's median, $149k/yr, is 6% above the $140k/yr median of the 895 open roles for test engineers at every space company we read (True Anomaly's among them).
Do test engineers earn more than other roles at True Anomaly?
True Anomaly's roles for test engineers post a median $149k/yr, 11% below the $168k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (True Anomaly salaries compares every kind of work).
Where does True Anomaly hire test engineers?
Its open roles for test engineers are in Long Beach, CA (9) and Denver, CO (4). By place, they post a median of $150k/yr in Long Beach, CA and $151k/yr in Denver, CO.