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Manufacturing & Technicians

$62k–$170k/yrtypical paylive median $85.5k/yr hire for it

Measured from 596 distinct posted rates, across 26 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 838 of the 1,434 listings open here post no pay at all.

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Updated 29 Oct 2026, 21:01 UTC
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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. Many of these roles are hourly and open to people without a degree.

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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. The usual range is $62k–$170k/yr and the median $85.5k/yr, both taken from rates printed on postings that are live today. hire for it, including Muon Space, Outpost, Inversion Space.

Who hires for technicians work

EmployerOpen nowPay for this work
Muon Space logoMuon Space5$139k–$257k/yr
Outpost logoOutpost3$78k–$279k/yr
Inversion Space logoInversion Space13$75.9k–$136k/yr
Albedo logoAlbedo1Stated per posting
Varda Space Industries logoVarda Space Industries26$146k–$263k/yr
K2 Space logoK2 Space38$88.4k–$193k/yr
Apex logoApex16$85.5k–$195k/yr
Stoke Space logoStoke Space12$83.5k–$187k/yr
BlackSky logoBlackSky1Stated per posting
Northwood Space logoNorthwood Space5$105k–$202k/yr
True Anomaly logoTrue Anomaly18$65k–$108k/yr
Firefly Aerospace logoFirefly Aerospace33Stated per posting
Blue Origin logoBlue Origin293Stated per posting
Boeing logoBoeing13Stated per posting
Dawn Aerospace logoDawn Aerospace6Stated per posting
ICEYE logoICEYE22Stated per posting
Isar Aerospace logoIsar Aerospace24Stated per posting
Kepler Communications logoKepler Communications1Stated per posting
Northrop Grumman logoNorthrop Grumman4Stated per posting
SpaceX logoSpaceX486$61.4k–$160k/yr
AST SpaceMobile logoAST SpaceMobile79$59.8k–$114k/yr
Ursa Major logoUrsa Major19$63.4k–$149k/yr
Relativity Space logoRelativity Space111$58.9k–$124k/yr
Terran Orbital logoTerran Orbital6$61.9k–$138k/yr
Vast logoVast29$47.8k–$114k/yr
Rocket Lab logoRocket Lab88$52k–$114k/yr
Astranis logoAstranis14$60.8k–$138k/yr

Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). Employers with a referral agreement get a boost in this order, which has no effect on the salary they offer.

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