Space Jobs for Electrical Engineers

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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 263 out of 1,428 open roles for electrical 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 experience218
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)42
• Name a security clearance25
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition22
• Ask for a professional license9
• Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)9
• Name iPC or NASA workmanship certification2

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

Who hires electrical engineers in the space industry

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
Muon Space	12	$83.2k–$237k/yr
Array Labs	11	$120k–$270k/yr
Anduril	5	$132k–$243k/yr
Hubble Network	1	$107k–$240k/yr
Outpost	1	$130k–$170k/yr
Cowboy Space	6	$100k–$300k/yr
Astrolab	10	$100k–$240k/yr
Amazon Leo	83	$81.1k–$288k/yr
Portal Space Systems	2	$145k–$235k/yr
Johns Hopkins APL	6	$47k–$290k/yr
True Anomaly	20	$75k–$310k/yr
Turion Space	2	$100k–$175k/yr
Momentus	2	$140k–$195k/yr
E-Space	25	$80k–$250k/yr
LeoLabs	1	$120k–$139k/yr
Stoke Space	3	$105k–$328k/yr
Inversion Space	11	$106k–$221k/yr
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems	15	$64.9k–$226k/yr
K2 Space	40	$62.4k–$285k/yr
Apex	14	$88k–$215k/yr
General Galactic	2	$140k–$240k/yr
Xona Space Systems	7	$100k–$200k/yr
Loft Federal	1	$132k–$178k/yr
Varda Space Industries	12	$109k–$263k/yr
Viasat	16	$85k–$246k/yr
Impulse Space	29	$62.4k–$240k/yr
Capella Space	4	$127k–$220k/yr
KBR	2	Not stated
Blue Origin	186	$46.8k–$377k/yr
Planet	4	$114k–$181k/yr
HawkEye 360	3	$130k–$200k/yr
BlackSky	3	Not stated
Gravitics	2	$110k–$170k/yr
Sophia Space	1	$128k–$157k/yr
CesiumAstro	58	$78.4k–$236k/yr
Relativity Space	27	$90k–$263k/yr
Voyager Technologies	12	$56.2k–$262k/yr
Reflect Orbital	1	$100k–$200k/yr
Spire Global	1	Not stated
Northwood Space	13	$84k–$255k/yr
GITAI	2	$125k–$200k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton	1	$62k–$141k/yr
Parsons	1	$74.8k–$131k/yr
Sierra Space	8	$77.2k–$226k/yr
Vast	27	$72.8k–$265k/yr
Firefly Aerospace	10	Not stated
Thales Alenia Space	25	Not stated
ICEYE	17	Not stated
The Aerospace Corporation	12	Not stated
Airbus Defence and Space	11	Not stated
Axiom Space	11	Not stated
OHB	10	Not stated
Star Catcher	7	Not stated
The Exploration Company	6	Not stated
ArianeGroup	5	Not stated
Elveo Mobile	5	Not stated
Reflex Aerospace	5	Not stated
Eutelsat	4	Not stated
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL)	4	Not stated
Astroscale	3	Not stated
ClearSpace	3	Not stated
Exotrail	3	Not stated
HyImpulse	3	Not stated
Dawn Aerospace	2	Not stated
Hemeria	2	Not stated
Redwire Space Europe	2	Not stated
Rocket Factory Augsburg	2	Not stated
Sidus Space	2	Not stated
Foundational	1	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	1	Not stated
Kepler Communications	1	Not stated
MaiaSpace	1	Not stated
Open Cosmos	1	Not stated
Satellogic	1	Not stated
Spaceium	1	Not stated
Telespazio	1	Not stated
Venus Aerospace	1	Not stated
Starfish Space	1	$100k–$180k/yr
Katalyst Space Technologies	4	$105k–$180k/yr
Boeing	19	$76.1k–$268k/yr
SES	3	Not stated
Intuitive Machines	5	Not stated
RTX	6	$62.9k–$182k/yr
SpaceX	199	$68.6k–$290k/yr
Overview Energy	1	$110k–$150k/yr
ispace	3	$101k–$152k/yr
Rendezvous Robotics	3	$80k–$110k/yr
Lockheed Martin	114	$41.9k–$310k/yr
AST SpaceMobile	10	Not stated
L3Harris	13	$111k–$206k/yr
SEAKR Engineering	4	$90k–$185k/yr
Mission Control Space Services	1	Not stated
General Dynamics Mission Systems	1	$127k/yr
Terran Orbital	3	$120k–$230k/yr
Redwire	1	$114k–$198k/yr
Virgin Galactic	2	$130k–$218k/yr
AeroVironment (AV)	9	$91k–$224k/yr
United Launch Alliance	6	$48k–$113k/yr
Northrop Grumman	58	$44.7k–$289k/yr
Leidos	4	$87.1k–$195k/yr
Rocket Lab	35	$58.2k–$253k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	10	$97.7k–$183k/yr
CACI	8	$45.9k–$180k/yr
Amentum	9	$57k–$130k/yr
Ursa Major	3	$110k–$147k/yr
Lunar Outpost	3	$49.9k/yr
Teledyne	3	$90.8k–$151k/yr
Peraton	1	$66k–$106k/yr
Moog	7	$75k–$200k/yr
Astranis	21	$60.3k–$250k/yr
AstroForge	1	$62.4k/yr
Benchmark Space Systems	1	$47.8k–$54.1k/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.

Electrical Engineer salary by employer

What each employer's own postings pay electrical engineers, by level and by site, with every role and its posted pay.

• SpaceX Electrical Engineer salarymedian $140k/yr, 199 open roles
• Blue Origin Electrical Engineer salarymedian $173k/yr, 186 open roles
• Lockheed Martin Electrical Engineer salarymedian $155k/yr, 114 open roles
• Amazon Leo Electrical Engineer salarymedian $162k/yr, 83 open roles
• CesiumAstro Electrical Engineer salarymedian $174k/yr, 58 open roles
• Northrop Grumman Electrical Engineer salarymedian $126k/yr, 58 open roles
• K2 Space Electrical Engineer salarymedian $171k/yr, 40 open roles
• Rocket Lab Electrical Engineer salarymedian $124k/yr, 35 open roles
• Impulse Space Electrical Engineer salarymedian $148k/yr, 29 open roles
• Relativity Space Electrical Engineer salarymedian $185k/yr, 27 open roles
• Vast Electrical Engineer salarymedian $156k/yr, 27 open roles
• E-Space Electrical Engineer salarymedian $175k/yr, 25 open roles
• Astranis Electrical Engineer salarymedian $185k/yr, 21 open roles
• True Anomaly Electrical Engineer salarymedian $176k/yr, 20 open roles
• Boeing Electrical Engineer salarymedian $178k/yr, 19 open roles
• Viasat Electrical Engineer salarymedian $163k/yr, 16 open roles
• BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Electrical Engineer salarymedian $159k/yr, 15 open roles
• Apex Electrical Engineer salarymedian $148k/yr, 14 open roles
• Northwood Space Electrical Engineer salarymedian $144k/yr, 13 open roles
• Muon Space Electrical Engineer salarymedian $196k/yr, 12 open roles
• Varda Space Industries Electrical Engineer salarymedian $172k/yr, 12 open roles
• Array Labs Electrical Engineer salarymedian $180k/yr, 11 open roles
• Inversion Space Electrical Engineer salarymedian $165k/yr, 11 open roles
• Astrolab Electrical Engineer salarymedian $185k/yr, 10 open roles
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Electrical Engineer salarymedian $141k/yr, 10 open roles

How each employer checks you

For every employer currently hiring electrical engineers: its process as its own hiring guide describes it, each line with its source. The complete steps sit on that employer's page. 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.

Amazon Leo83 open

Assessment

Amazon's interview loop. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Blue Origin186 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Booz Allen Hamilton1 open

Assessment

Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Thales Alenia Space25 open

Assessment

Thales interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Airbus Defence and Space11 open

Assessment

Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Lockheed Martin114 open

Assessment

Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Northrop Grumman58 open

Assessment

The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory10 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Where these roles are posted

The US states with the most open roles for electrical 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 avionics work

Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.

• Who is hiring1,195 open roles (7.5% of the space roles we read) at 112 employers, 396 of them posted in the last 30 days.
• Where the jobs are0.7% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
• Who can apply85.9% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 12.4% name a security clearance.
• Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Python (42%), C or C++ (21%) and MATLAB (15%).
• Degrees and experience1.1% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 35.1% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
• Pay transparency67.3% of the postings state their pay, at a median $160,000 a year.
• Internships and entry level91 open roles are for someone starting out (7.6% of its open roles).
• Shifts, weekends and travel28.3% of the postings ask for weekend work, 25.0% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.2% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
• What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (85.9% of them), about a security clearance (50.3% of them), your GPA (26.3% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (25.3% of them), your salary expectations (23.6% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (35.6% of them).