Space Jobs for Data Scientists

Showing the 36 roles that name a security clearance, every country. See every role

Pay by specialty

Every specialty gets its typical band from its own open roles, computed by the same method as the rest of the site (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). A specialty is listed once three or more distinct rates have been posted.

What the roles ask for

Drawn from the requirement lines of 155 out of 234 open roles for data scientists and machine learning engineers, the same lines each role's pop-up quotes from its posting. Each role is counted once, at the lowest degree it will accept.

• Name years of experience123
• Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)41
• Name a security clearance36
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)16
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition9
• Ask for a certification2
• Ask for a professional license1

Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 5 years.

Who hires data scientists and machine learning engineers in the space industry

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
Muon Space	5	$171k–$261k/yr
Array Labs	1	$150k–$300k/yr
Hubble Network	1	$150k–$235k/yr
Umbra	2	$155k–$210k/yr
Amazon Leo	12	$132k–$262k/yr
E-Space	1	$150k–$225k/yr
Inversion Space	1	Not stated
K2 Space	2	$140k–$200k/yr
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems	3	$97k–$201k/yr
Loft Orbital	4	$90k–$210k/yr
Viasat	6	$121k–$285k/yr
Skylo	1	$170k–$185k/yr
Impulse Space	2	$62.4k–$180k/yr
Planet	7	$100k–$226k/yr
BlackSky	4	$74.9k–$165k/yr
Slingshot Aerospace	1	$150k–$250k/yr
Vast	1	$160k–$268k/yr
CesiumAstro	1	Not stated
Voyager Technologies	4	$120k–$275k/yr
Relativity Space	2	$115k–$196k/yr
Blue Origin	15	$99.2k–$189k/yr
Northwood Space	1	$70.7k/yr
True Anomaly	11	$120k–$310k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation	19	Not stated
Axiom Space	4	Not stated
European Space Agency (ESA)	4	Not stated
Astroscale	2	Not stated
ICEYE	2	Not stated
Constellr	1	Not stated
Eutelsat	1	Not stated
Foundational	1	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	1	Not stated
OHB	1	Not stated
Spaceium	1	Not stated
Intuitive Machines	2	Not stated
SES	1	Not stated
SpaceX	66	$80k–$350k/yr
AST SpaceMobile	4	Not stated
Vantor	22	$81k–$220k/yr
Rocket Lab	5	$132k–$204k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	9	$83.8k–$228k/yr

Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.

Where these roles are posted

The US states with the most open roles for data scientists and machine learning engineers, and the roles posted for a single country. A place name leads to its own page, and a country's count lists the matching roles.

What our research measures about science & data 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 hiring119 open roles (1.5% of the space roles we read) at 23 employers, 41 of them posted in the last 30 days.
• Where the jobs are16.0% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
• Who can apply68.1% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 37.2% name a security clearance.
• Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Python (71%), C or C++ (27%) and SQL (18%).
• Degrees and experience1.8% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 64.6% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 3 years of experience at the least.
• Pay transparency64.7% of the postings state their pay, at a median $153,000 a year.
• Internships and entry level8 open roles are for someone starting out (6.7% of its open roles).
• Shifts, weekends and travel4.4% of the postings ask for weekend work, 4.4% for overtime or extended hours.
• What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (85.0% of them), about a security clearance (40.0% of them), your GPA (8.3% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (8.3% of them), your salary expectations (36.7% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (38.3% of them).