Space Jobs for Mission Operations Engineers in Virginia

Today, Rocket Lab (5 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (3 roles), Booz Allen Hamilton (3 roles), Northrop Grumman (2 roles), Elveo Mobile (1 role), Iridium (1 role), and 1 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in Virginia.

Most are in Chantilly (5), Wallops Island (5), Arlington (2), McLean (2), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

The roles here that state pay post a median $128k/yr, with typical pay from $119k–$198k/yr; 81.2% of Virginia's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Virginia's law has required every employer to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Jul 2026 (each state's law beside its postings).

Of the 157 space postings in Virginia whose text we read, 82.2% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 57.3% 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.

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 Virginia, 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 mission and launch operations engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.