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Space Jobs for Data Scientists in the Los Angeles Area

70 open roles for data scientists and machine learning engineers at 17 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in El Segundo and Long Beach; typical pay runs $141k–$270k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring data scientists and machine learning engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
The Aerospace Corporation15not stated
SpaceX13$160k/yr
True Anomaly11$198k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)9$129k/yr
Rocket Lab3$179k/yr
Voyager Technologies3$185k/yr
Anduril2too few figures
Booz Allen Hamilton2too few figures
Impulse Space2too few figures
K2 Space2too few figures
Relativity Space2too few figures
Amentum1not stated
Inversion Space1not stated
KBR1not stated
Northrop Grumman1too few figures
Northwood Space1too few figures
Vast1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 09:02 UTC

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Which space companies hire data scientists and machine learning engineers in the Los Angeles area?

Today, The Aerospace Corporation (15 roles), SpaceX (13 roles), True Anomaly (11 roles), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (9 roles), Rocket Lab (3 roles), Voyager Technologies (3 roles), and 11 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the roles for data scientists and machine learning engineers?

Most are in El Segundo (20), Long Beach (18), Hawthorne (13), Pasadena (9), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for data scientists and machine learning engineers in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $165k/yr, with typical pay from $141k–$270k/yr; 91.8% of California's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. California's law has required employers with 15 or more employees to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Jan 2023 (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 9,850 data scientists working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $130k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for data scientists and machine learning engineers here post a median $165k/yr today, 27.2% above that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

Do roles for data scientists and machine learning engineers in the Los Angeles area require US citizenship?

Of the 4,856 space postings in California whose text we read, 76.4% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 35.6% 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.

How is this list made?

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 the Los Angeles area (the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Los Angeles and Orange counties), 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 data scientists and machine learning engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.