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Space Jobs for Propulsion Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

192 open roles for propulsion engineers at 21 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Long Beach and Hawthorne; typical pay runs $130k–$245k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring propulsion engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX33$130k/yr
Relativity Space30$152k/yr
Rocket Lab27$144k/yr
Impulse Space17$160k/yr
Varda Space Industries13$160k/yr
Apex12$177k/yr
Vast12$160k/yr
K2 Space9$125k/yr
True Anomaly9$205k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation7not stated
CesiumAstro5$130k/yr
General Galactic5$160k/yr
Inversion Space3$165k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)2too few figures
Northrop Grumman2too few figures
Anduril1too few figures
GITAI1too few figures
Millennium Space Systems1too few figures
Quantum Space1too few figures
Turion Space1too few figures
Voyager Technologies1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 08:02 UTC

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

Today, SpaceX (33 roles), Relativity Space (30 roles), Rocket Lab (27 roles), Impulse Space (17 roles), Varda Space Industries (13 roles), Apex (12 roles), and 15 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Los Angeles area.

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

Most are in Long Beach (76), Hawthorne (37), El Segundo (31), Los Angeles (22), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for propulsion engineers in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $152k/yr, with typical pay from $130k–$245k/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 5,200 aerospace engineers working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $163k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for propulsion engineers here post a median $152k/yr today, 6.9% below that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

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

Of the 4,856 space postings in California whose text we read, 76.4% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 35.6% 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 propulsion engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.