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Space Jobs for Electrical Engineers in the Seattle Area

254 open roles for electrical engineers at 11 space companies name a site in the Seattle area, most of them in Redmond and Seattle; typical pay runs $139k–$245k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring electrical engineers in the Seattle area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Blue Origin121$157k/yr
Amazon Leo64$162k/yr
SpaceX41$140k/yr
K2 Space13$210k/yr
Cowboy Space4$192k/yr
BlackSky3not stated
Gravitics2too few figures
Portal Space Systems2too few figures
Stoke Space2too few figures
Hubble Network1too few figures
Starfish Space1too few figures

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Open space roles for electrical engineers in the Seattle area, newest first

Updated 31 Oct 2026, 16:02 UTC

The 100 newest of 254; each employer's page above lists all of its roles.

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What people ask about electrical engineers' work in the Seattle area

Which space companies hire electrical engineers in the Seattle area?

Today, Blue Origin (121 roles), Amazon Leo (64 roles), SpaceX (41 roles), K2 Space (13 roles), Cowboy Space (4 roles), BlackSky (3 roles), and 5 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Seattle area.

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

Most are in Redmond (93), Seattle (14), Bellevue (8), Kent (6), 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 Seattle area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $160k/yr, with typical pay from $139k–$245k/yr; 88.9% of Washington's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Washington'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 4,930 electrical engineers working in the Seattle area, in any industry, earn a median $140k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for electrical engineers here post a median $160k/yr today, 14.1% 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 Seattle area require US citizenship?

Of the 1,790 space postings in Washington whose text we read, 96.8% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 3.5% 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 Seattle area (the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: King, Pierce and Snohomish 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.