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Space Jobs for Mechanical Engineers in the Brownsville Area

24 open roles for mechanical engineers at 1 space company name a site in the Brownsville area, most of them in Starbase. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring mechanical engineers in the Brownsville area

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 07:01 UTC

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Which space companies hire mechanical engineers in the Brownsville area?

Today, SpaceX (24 roles). The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Brownsville area.

Where in the Brownsville area are the roles for mechanical engineers?

Most are in Starbase (24), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for mechanical engineers in the Brownsville area pay?

Too few of the roles here state their pay to give a median: 9.6% of Texas's postings state pay, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Texas has no law requiring a pay range in job postings, so a posting there can leave pay out (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 230 mechanical engineers working in the Brownsville area, in any industry, earn a median $102k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do roles for mechanical engineers in the Brownsville area require US citizenship?

Of the 1,687 space postings in Texas whose text we read, 78.7% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 3.4% 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 Brownsville area (the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Cameron County), 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 mechanical engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.