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Space Jobs for Machinists in the Los Angeles Area

80 open roles for machinists at 17 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Hawthorne and Long Beach; typical pay runs $81.4k–$182k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring machinists in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX28$87.4k/yr
Relativity Space19$98.5k/yr
Impulse Space5$109k/yr
L3Harris5$126k/yr
Northrop Grumman4$102k/yr
Vast4$116k/yr
Rocket Lab3$88.4k/yr
Astrolab2too few figures
Inversion Space2too few figures
Amazon Leo1too few figures
Apex1too few figures
Blue Origin1too few figures
K2 Space1too few figures
Northwood Space1too few figures
Teledyne1too few figures
True Anomaly1too few figures
Varda Space Industries1too few figures

Where the roles are

  • Hawthorne31
  • Long Beach26
  • Redondo Beach7
  • Canoga Park5
  • Los Angeles3
  • Commerce2
  • Playa Vista2
  • Torrance2
  • El Segundo1
  • Northridge1

Kinds of work

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 14:02 UTC

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What people ask about machinists' work in the Los Angeles area

Which space companies hire machinists in the Los Angeles area?

Today, SpaceX (28 roles), Relativity Space (19 roles), Impulse Space (5 roles), L3Harris (5 roles), Northrop Grumman (4 roles), Vast (4 roles), and 11 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the roles for machinists?

Most are in Hawthorne (31), Long Beach (26), Redondo Beach (7), Canoga Park (5), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for machinists in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $100k/yr, with typical pay from $81.4k–$182k/yr; 91.8% 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 7,850 machinists working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $55.7k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for machinists here post a median $100k/yr today, 79.7% above that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

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

Of the 4,858 space postings in California whose text we read, 76.4% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 35.6% 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 machinists; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.