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Space Jobs for Mechanical Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

311 open roles for mechanical engineers at 30 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Long Beach and Los Angeles; typical pay runs $128k–$236k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring mechanical engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Relativity Space52$158k/yr
SpaceX37$130k/yr
K2 Space28$158k/yr
Vast26$141k/yr
Rocket Lab19$144k/yr
Varda Space Industries18$160k/yr
Northrop Grumman16$143k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation11not stated
Anduril11$172k/yr
Apex11$148k/yr
Impulse Space11$150k/yr
Inversion Space10$165k/yr
True Anomaly10$133k/yr
Boeing8$129k/yr
Astrolab7$174k/yr
GITAI6$128k/yr
General Galactic4$155k/yr
CesiumAstro3$182k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3$121k/yr
Terran Orbital3$130k/yr
Virgin Galactic3$204k/yr
Voyager Technologies3too few figures
Blue Origin2too few figures
Northwood Space2too few figures
RTX2too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 01:02 UTC

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Which space companies hire mechanical engineers in the Los Angeles area?

Today, Relativity Space (52 roles), SpaceX (37 roles), K2 Space (28 roles), Vast (26 roles), Rocket Lab (19 roles), Varda Space Industries (18 roles), and 24 more. The table above lists the 25 with the most roles open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the roles for mechanical engineers?

Most are in Long Beach (103), Los Angeles (48), El Segundo (46), Hawthorne (46), 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 Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $147k/yr, with typical pay from $128k–$236k/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 8,780 mechanical engineers working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $124k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for mechanical engineers here post a median $147k/yr today, 18.6% above that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

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

Of the 3,014 space postings in California whose text we read, 79.6% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 23.5% 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 mechanical engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.