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Space Jobs for Electrical Engineers in the Austin Area

91 open roles for electrical engineers at 5 space companies name a site in the Austin area, most of them in Bastrop and Austin. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring electrical engineers in the Austin area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX58not stated
CesiumAstro17not stated
Firefly Aerospace9not stated
Blue Origin4too few figures
Amazon Leo3$184k/yr

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC

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Which space companies hire electrical engineers in the Austin area?

Today, SpaceX (58 roles), CesiumAstro (17 roles), Firefly Aerospace (9 roles), Blue Origin (4 roles), Amazon Leo (3 roles). The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Austin area.

Where in the Austin area are the roles for electrical engineers?

Most are in Bastrop (52), Austin (26), Cedar Park (9), Hutto (4), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for electrical engineers in the Austin area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $217k/yr, with typical pay from $184k–$350k/yr; 9.6% of Texas's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Texas has no law requiring a pay range in job postings, so a posting there can leave pay out (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 4,070 electrical engineers working in the Austin area, in any industry, earn a median $145k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do roles for electrical engineers in the Austin area require US citizenship?

Of the 1,687 space postings in Texas whose text we read, 78.7% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 3.4% 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 Austin area (the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson 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 electrical engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.