Recruiting and HR
Space Jobs for Recruiters and HR Professionals
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 221 open roles for recruiters and HR professionals on 60 space industry employers, including Muon Space, Outpost and Astrolab; typical pay across them is $92.5k to $193k a year (median $118k), topped by $330k a year advertised at Northrop Grumman.
Learning & Development Advisor (opens the job details)
Rocket Lab · Programs & Business · Auckland, NZ· 1mo agoDetails
Measured from 127 distinct posted rates, across 36 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 93 of the 221 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire recruiters and HR professionals to find the engineers and technicians they grow on, and to look after the people they hire. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
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Learning & Development Advisor (opens the job details)
Rocket Lab · Programs & Business · Auckland, NZ· 1mo agoDetails
Before you apply
Space hardware is built, tested and flown in person, so many roles name a factory, a test site, a launch site or a control room, and each listing states its location. US roles that touch export-controlled technology (ITAR or EAR) can ask that you be a U.S. person, and some ask for a security clearance. A real employer never charges you to apply, never interviews you only by chat app and never asks you to buy equipment.
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.
| Specialty | Open roles | Typical pay | Highest rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiters and sourcers | 130 | $96.3k–$175k/yr | $289k/yr |
| Compensation and benefits | 12 | $101k–$181k/yr | $197k/yr |
| Learning and talent development | 13 | $110k–$182k/yr | $220k/yr |
| HR business partners and employee relations | 65 | $86.3k–$206k/yr | $330k/yr |
| HR professionals | 1 | Too few rates | Not stated |
What the roles ask for
Drawn from the requirement lines of 144 out of 221 open roles for recruiters and HR professionals, 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 experience118
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)19
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition16
- Ask for a certification3
- Name a security clearance2
- Ask for a professional license1
- Name an HR certification (SHRM, PHR, CIPD)1
Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 5 years.
Who hires recruiters and HR professionals in the space industry
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.
How each employer checks you
For every employer currently hiring recruiters and HR professionals: 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.
- Assessment
- Amazon's interview loop. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Thales interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- The qualification review and interview. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Credentials
- Add the documents the announcement asks for, such as academic transcripts or military documents like your DD-214. Source
Where these roles are posted
The US states with the most open roles for recruiters and HR professionals, 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.
Students and recent graduates: 9 open space internships for recruiters and HR professionals.
In the US, by state
- California86
- Texas34
- Washington23
- Colorado16
- Florida11
Space industry jobs by US state
In the US, by metro area
What our research measures about programs & business 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 hiring1,155 open roles (14.2% of the space roles we read) at 47 employers, 385 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are9.3% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply76.2% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 23.8% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Excel (21%), SAP or another ERP (13%) and SQL (12%).
- Degrees and experience7.1% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 20.5% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency53.2% of the postings state their pay, at a median $140,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level42 open roles are for someone starting out (3.6% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel28.8% of the postings ask for weekend work, 25.9% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.5% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (82.8% of them), about a security clearance (52.3% of them), your GPA (32.0% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (31.0% of them), your salary expectations (29.2% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (51.6% of them).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do recruiters and HR professionals earn in the space industry?
Going by the 127 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for recruiters and HR professionals (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $92.5k–$193k/yr and the median is $118k/yr. The top posted figure is $330k/yr, at Northrop Grumman. 93 of the 221 open roles for recruiters and HR professionals state no pay, so check each listing.
Do space recruiting roles need a technical background?
Most technical recruiter roles ask for years of recruiting, often for engineering, manufacturing or cleared roles, rather than an engineering degree; HR roles ask for HR experience and sometimes a certification such as SHRM. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 144 open roles for recruiters and HR professionals whose requirements we read, 1 a master's, 93 at least a bachelor's and 50 name no degree.
What does a recruiter or HR professional do at a space company?
A recruiter at a space company finds and hires engineers, technicians and operators, often for roles that are export-controlled or need a security clearance. HR professionals advise teams and managers, run compensation, benefits and employee relations, and train the workforce.
How do space companies hire recruiters and HR professionals?
Each employer runs its own hiring, and each listing says what it asks for: the degree or the hands-on experience, the location, and for export-controlled work in the US, often U.S. person status. Of the employers hiring recruiters and HR professionals now, US Space Force says it checks credentials such as degrees. The section on how each employer checks you quotes each guide with its source.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Muon Space, Outpost, Astrolab and Amazon Leo among them), and each employer's page here covers who they are and how they hire. A real employer never charges you to apply, never asks you to buy equipment and never interviews you only by chat app.
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