Space Jobs for Aerospace Engineers in California

Today, The Aerospace Corporation (4 roles), Inversion Space (4 roles), Varda Space Industries (3 roles), Virgin Galactic (2 roles), Voyager Technologies (2 roles), Amazon Leo (1 role), and 2 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in California.

Most are in El Segundo (7), Playa Vista (4), Long Beach (3), Folsom (2), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

The roles here that state pay post a median $165k/yr, with typical pay from $160k–$224k/yr; 88.2% of California's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. For reference, the 9,600 aerospace engineers working in California, in any industry, earn a median $158k/yr (BLS, May 2025, as our research sets beside the open roles).

Of the 3,014 space postings in California whose text we read, 79.6% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 23.5% name a security clearance, by our research on who can apply, which compares every state. Each posting states its own rule, often citing export control under ITAR or the EAR.

We read each employer's own job board every hour. A role is listed here when it is a US role and its own location line names a place in California, by the same reading as our research on where space jobs are, and its title names the profession by the same rule as the page for aerospace engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.