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Space Jobs for Mechanical Engineers in the Washington, DC Area

24 open roles for mechanical engineers at 11 space companies name a site in the Washington, DC area, most of them in Dulles, VA and Silver Spring, MD; typical pay runs $113k–$290k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring mechanical engineers in the Washington, DC area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Northrop Grumman5$143k/yr
Rocket Lab5$98k/yr
Johns Hopkins APL3$198k/yr
KBR3$172k/yr
AST SpaceMobile2not stated
Anduril1too few figures
Elveo Mobile1not stated
HawkEye 3601too few figures
Lockheed Martin1too few figures
Quantum Space1too few figures
Trinzic1too few figures

Where the roles are

  • Dulles, VA5
  • Silver Spring, MD5
  • Greenbelt, MD4
  • Laurel, MD3
  • Chantilly, VA2
  • Herndon, VA2
  • Lanham, MD2
  • Fredericksburg, VA1
  • Rockville, MD1

Kinds of work

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Which space companies hire mechanical engineers in the Washington, DC area?

Today, Northrop Grumman (5 roles), Rocket Lab (5 roles), Johns Hopkins APL (3 roles), KBR (3 roles), AST SpaceMobile (2 roles), Anduril (1 role), and 5 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Washington, DC area.

Where in the Washington, DC area are the roles for mechanical engineers?

Most are in Dulles, VA (5), Silver Spring, MD (5), Greenbelt, MD (4), Laurel, MD (3), 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 Washington, DC area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $143k/yr, with typical pay from $113k–$290k/yr. For reference, the 5,390 mechanical engineers working in the Washington, DC area, in any industry, earn a median $127k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for mechanical engineers here post a median $143k/yr today, 12.6% 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 Washington, DC area require US citizenship?

Many do: rocket, spacecraft and satellite work is often export-controlled under ITAR or the EAR, so most roles at US space employers are open only to US citizens or US persons, as each posting states. Our research on who can apply measures it employer by employer.

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 Washington, DC area (the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Alexandria city, Arlington County, Charles County, Clarke County, Culpeper County, District of Columbia, Fairfax city, Fairfax County, Falls Church city, Fauquier County, Frederick County, Fredericksburg city, Jefferson County, Loudoun County, Manassas city, Manassas Park city, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Prince William County, Rappahannock County, Spotsylvania County, Stafford County and Warren 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.