Production and process
Space Jobs for Manufacturing Engineers
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 690 open roles for manufacturing engineers on 70 space industry employers, including Muon Space, Anduril and Umbra; typical pay across them is $124k to $215k a year (median $142k), topped by $280k a year advertised at Lockheed Martin.
Production Planning Engineer (opens the job details)
Axiom Space · Technicians · Houston· 1w agoDetails
Production Test Engineering Manager (opens the job details)
Axiom Space · Technicians · Houston· 2mo agoDetails
Measured from 366 distinct posted rates, across 46 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 324 of the 690 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire manufacturing engineers to turn designs into flight hardware at rate: the processes, tooling and lines that build engines, tanks and spacecraft. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for manufacturing engineers
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Production and process
3 openRun and improve the production line: process design, tooling, work instructions and rate.
Production Planning Engineer (opens the job details)
Axiom Space · Technicians · Houston· 1w agoDetails
Production Test Engineering Manager (opens the job details)
Axiom Space · Technicians · Houston· 2mo 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.
What the roles ask for
Drawn from the requirement lines of 380 out of 690 open roles for manufacturing 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 experience323
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition51
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)41
- Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)21
- Name a security clearance13
- Ask for a professional license10
Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 5 years.
Who hires manufacturing engineers 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.
Where these roles are posted
The US states with the most open roles for manufacturing 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.
In the US, by state
- California243
- Texas121
- Washington97
- Florida68
- Colorado39
- Alabama27
- Maryland10
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).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do manufacturing engineers earn in the space industry?
Going by the 366 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for manufacturing engineers (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $124k–$215k/yr and the median is $142k/yr. The top posted figure is $280k/yr, at Lockheed Martin. 324 of the 690 open roles for manufacturing engineers state no pay, so check each listing.
What do manufacturing roles ask for?
Usually a mechanical, industrial or manufacturing engineering degree and experience with the processes the role names. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 380 open roles for manufacturing engineers whose requirements we read, 6 a master's, 350 at least a bachelor's and 24 name no degree.
What does a manufacturing engineer do at a space company?
A manufacturing engineer at a space company designs how hardware is built: the process, the tooling and fixtures, the work instructions for technicians, and the fixes when a part does not come out right, then raises the rate as production grows.
How do space companies hire manufacturing engineers?
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.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Muon Space, Anduril, Umbra and Cowboy Space 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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