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Space Jobs for Electrical Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

356 open roles for electrical engineers at 30 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Long Beach and Hawthorne; typical pay runs $130k–$240k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring electrical engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX64$138k/yr
K2 Space32$159k/yr
Impulse Space29$148k/yr
Vast27$156k/yr
Relativity Space20$185k/yr
Rocket Lab20$128k/yr
True Anomaly19$185k/yr
Boeing17$178k/yr
Apex14$148k/yr
CesiumAstro13$154k/yr
Northwood Space13$144k/yr
Varda Space Industries12$172k/yr
Inversion Space11$165k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation10not stated
Astrolab10$185k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory10$141k/yr
Northrop Grumman7$143k/yr
Amazon Leo5$146k/yr
Anduril4$183k/yr
RTX3$110k/yr
Terran Orbital3$190k/yr
Blue Origin2too few figures
General Galactic2too few figures
GITAI2too few figures
Turion Space2too few figures

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Updated 30 Oct 2026, 22:03 UTC

The 100 newest of 356; each employer's page above lists all of its roles.

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What people ask about electrical engineers' work in the Los Angeles area

Which space companies hire electrical engineers in the Los Angeles area?

Today, SpaceX (64 roles), K2 Space (32 roles), Impulse Space (29 roles), Vast (27 roles), Relativity Space (20 roles), Rocket Lab (20 roles), and 24 more. The table above lists the 25 with the most roles open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the roles for electrical engineers?

Most are in Long Beach (84), Hawthorne (69), El Segundo (56), Los Angeles (51), 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 Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $154k/yr, with typical pay from $130k–$240k/yr; 88.2% 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 8,970 electrical engineers working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $140k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for electrical engineers here post a median $154k/yr today, 10.2% above that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

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

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.

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 electrical engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.