Space industry work
Quality & Mission Assurance
Measured from 456 distinct posted rates, across 59 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 369 of the 839 listings open here post no pay at all.
Live quality roles
Updated 30 Oct 2026, 22:03 UTC
$85,000–$135,000/yr- $85,000–$135,000/yr
Spaceflight Safety and Mission Assurance Manager (opens the job details)
Lunar Outpost · Golden, Colorado· 4mo agoDetails
Manager, Configuration Management (opens the job details)
CesiumAstro · Austin, TX· 3w agoDetails
Manager, Configuration Management (opens the job details)
CesiumAstro · Westminster, CO, United States· 3w agoDetails
$133,000–$161000/yr
Spacecraft System Safety Manager (opens the job details)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory · JPL Campus· 4mo agoDetails
$212,264–$264,992/yr
$125,000–$170,000/yr
Manager, Quality Control (opens the job details)
AeroVironment (AV) · Simi Valley, CA, United States· 1mo agoDetails
$117,500–$179,250/yr
Compliance Manager (opens the job details)
AST SpaceMobile · Midland, Texas, United States· 1mo agoDetails
Make sure the hardware is right before it flies: quality engineering and inspection, mission and product assurance, reliability, nondestructive testing, supplier quality, and environment, health and safety on sites that handle propellants and high-energy systems.
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In short
Quality & Mission Assurance. Make sure the hardware is right before it flies: quality engineering and inspection, mission and product assurance, reliability, nondestructive testing, supplier quality, and environment, health and safety on sites that handle propellants and high-energy systems. The usual range is $93.8k–$215k/yr and the median $126k/yr, both taken from rates printed on postings that are live today. 24 employers hire for it, including Loft Federal, Skylo, Capella Space.
Who hires for quality work
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What our research measures about quality work
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-29 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring471 open roles (5.8% of the space roles we read) at 30 employers, 111 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are1.7% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply72.7% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 12.2% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Lean or Six Sigma (23%), GD&T (ASME Y14.5) (20%) and Excel (20%).
- Degrees and experience19.2% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 18.3% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 3 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency45.9% of the postings state their pay, at a median $113,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level18 open roles are for someone starting out (3.8% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel43.9% of the postings ask for weekend work, 42.6% for overtime or extended hours, and 8.1% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (90.9% of them), about a security clearance (56.2% of them), your GPA (33.0% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (32.7% of them), your salary expectations (27.7% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (55.4% of them).
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