Law, contracts and regulation
Space Jobs for Lawyers and Contracts Managers
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 141 open roles for lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals on 57 space industry employers, including Muon Space, Array Labs and Hubble Network; typical pay across them is $118k to $281k a year (median $153k), topped by $350k a year advertised at Hubble Network.
Associate General Counsel (opens the job details)
Vast · Programs & Business · Washington, District of Columbia, United States· 1d agoDetails
$237,000–$337,000/yrSenior Legal Counsel (Employment) (opens the job details)
Vast · Programs & Business · Long Beach, California, United States· 2mo agoDetails
$164,000–$232,000/yr
Measured from 80 distinct posted rates, across 35 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 44 of the 141 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory specialists to win and run government contracts, license their launches and satellites, and advise on their deals. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 21:02 UTCListed here: Vast roles. See every employer
Counsel and legal teams
2 openAdvise on commercial deals, employment, export control, investments and litigation.
Associate General Counsel (opens the job details)
Vast · Programs & Business · Washington, District of Columbia, United States· 1d agoDetails
$237,000–$337,000/yrSenior Legal Counsel (Employment) (opens the job details)
Vast · Programs & Business · Long Beach, California, United States· 2mo agoDetails
$164,000–$232,000/yr
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.
What the roles ask for
Drawn from the requirement lines of 74 out of 141 open roles for lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory 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 experience55
- Name bar admission or a law degree30
- Name a security clearance16
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)7
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition5
- Ask for a professional license4
- Ask for a certification2
Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 6 years.
Who hires lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory 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.
Lawyer, Contracts Manager or Regulatory Professional salary by employer
What each employer's own postings pay lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals, by level and by site, with every role and its posted pay.
How each employer checks you
For every employer currently hiring lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory 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
- 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 lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory 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: 6 open space internships for lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals.
What our research measures about programs & business 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 hiring2,351 open roles (14.8% of the space roles we read) at 134 employers, 948 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are4.1% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply59.4% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 31.7% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Excel (21%), SAP or another ERP (15%) and Jira (8%).
- Degrees and experience4.8% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 25.0% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency58.8% of the postings state their pay, at a median $148,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level95 open roles are for someone starting out (4.0% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel15.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 17.1% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (77.6% of them), about a security clearance (47.7% of them), your GPA (25.3% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (24.4% of them), your salary expectations (26.5% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (41.7% of them).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals earn in the space industry?
Going by the 80 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $118k–$281k/yr and the median is $153k/yr. The top posted figure is $350k/yr, at Hubble Network. 44 of the 141 open roles for lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals state no pay, so check each listing.
Do space contracts roles need a law degree?
Counsel roles ask for a law degree and bar admission; contracts manager and administrator roles usually ask for a degree and years of government or commercial contracts experience instead, often with the federal acquisition rules (FAR and DFARS). Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 74 open roles for lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory professionals whose requirements we read, 3 a master's, 29 at least a bachelor's and 42 name no degree.
What does a lawyer, contracts manager or regulatory professional do at a space company?
A legal professional at a space company works where the business meets the law: contracts managers negotiate and administer government and commercial contracts, regulatory specialists win launch, satellite and spectrum licences, and counsel advise on deals, employment, export control and disputes.
How do space companies hire lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory 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 lawyers, contracts managers and regulatory 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, Array Labs, Hubble Network 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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