Space Jobs for Machinists

Showing the 95 roles that name years of experience, every country. See every role

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 107 out of 207 open roles for machinists, 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 experience95
• Ask for a certification28
• Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)24
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)15
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition11
• Ask for a professional license1

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

Who hires machinists in the space industry

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
Astrolab	2	$125k–$208k/yr
Amazon Leo	5	$77k–$170k/yr
True Anomaly	1	$55.1k–$74.9k/yr
Inversion Space	2	$62.4k–$125k/yr
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems	5	$57.3k–$122k/yr
K2 Space	1	$58.2k–$79k/yr
Stoke Space	1	$66.8k–$100k/yr
Varda Space Industries	1	$97.2k–$132k/yr
Apex	1	$66.6k–$95.7k/yr
Astra	2	$93.6k–$114k/yr
Impulse Space	6	$72.8k–$185k/yr
Blue Origin	30	$66.9k–$158k/yr
CesiumAstro	1	Not stated
Relativity Space	20	$56k–$212k/yr
Northwood Space	1	$104k–$218k/yr
Vast	4	$47.8k–$150k/yr
Sierra Space	2	$73.5k–$142k/yr
Firefly Aerospace	3	Not stated
ArianeGroup	3	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	3	Not stated
OHB	3	Not stated
Thales Alenia Space	3	Not stated
The Exploration Company	2	Not stated
Axiom Space	1	Not stated
Dawn Aerospace	1	Not stated
Hemeria	1	Not stated
HyImpulse	1	Not stated
Rocket Factory Augsburg	1	Not stated
Sidus Space	1	Not stated
Spaceium	1	Not stated
Venus Aerospace	1	Not stated
Intuitive Machines	1	Not stated
SpaceX	64	$45.8k–$215k/yr
AST SpaceMobile	6	$93.6k–$114k/yr
L3Harris	5	$66.2k–$178k/yr
Terran Orbital	1	$85k–$125k/yr
Northrop Grumman	4	$52.7k–$144k/yr
United Launch Alliance	2	Not stated
Rocket Lab	6	$72.8k–$114k/yr
Amentum	2	Not stated
Ursa Major	2	$49.9k–$74.9k/yr
Teledyne	1	$39k–$52k/yr
Moog	1	$45.8k–$93.6k/yr
AstroForge	2	$45.8k–$95.7k/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.

How each employer checks you

For every employer currently hiring machinists: 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 Leo5 open

Assessment

Amazon's interview loop. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Blue Origin30 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Thales Alenia Space3 open

Assessment

Thales interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Northrop Grumman4 open

Assessment

The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Where these roles are posted

The US states with the most open roles for machinists, 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 technicians 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 hiring1,439 open roles (17.7% of the space roles we read) at 37 employers, 327 of them posted in the last 30 days.
• Where the jobs are2.9% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
• Who can apply78.2% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 7.1% name a security clearance.
• Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: GD&T (ASME Y14.5) (23%), Lean or Six Sigma (19%) and SAP or another ERP (13%).
• Degrees and experience38.4% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 9.4% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 2 years of experience at the least.
• Pay transparency41.3% of the postings state their pay, at a median $85,000 a year.
• Internships and entry level85 open roles are for someone starting out (5.9% of its open roles).
• Shifts, weekends and travel42.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 48.4% for overtime or extended hours, and 15.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
• What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (87.0% of them), about a security clearance (58.7% of them), your GPA (20.2% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (19.5% of them), your salary expectations (29.3% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (55.1% of them).