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Quality and mission assurance in the Los Angeles area

Space Jobs for Quality Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

186 open roles for quality engineers and inspectors at 25 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Hawthorne and Long Beach; typical pay runs $108k–$225k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring quality engineers and inspectors in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX61$135k/yr
Relativity Space21$130k/yr
Vast18$160k/yr
Impulse Space9$165k/yr
Apex8$148k/yr
K2 Space8$158k/yr
Northrop Grumman8$115k/yr
Rocket Lab7$121k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation6not stated
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)6$132k/yr
L3Harris6$100k/yr
Millennium Space Systems4$150k/yr
Varda Space Industries4too few figures
Astrolab3$183k/yr
Northwood Space3$138k/yr
Blue Origin2too few figures
Quantum Space2too few figures
Teledyne2too few figures
True Anomaly2too few figures
Anduril1too few figures
Boeing1too few figures
CesiumAstro1too few figures
KBR1too few figures
Reflect Orbital1too few figures
Terran Orbital1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 14:02 UTC

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What people ask about quality engineers and inspectors' work in the Los Angeles area

Which space companies hire quality engineers and inspectors in the Los Angeles area?

Today, SpaceX (61 roles), Relativity Space (21 roles), Vast (18 roles), Impulse Space (9 roles), Apex (8 roles), K2 Space (8 roles), and 19 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 quality engineers and inspectors?

Most are in Hawthorne (65), Long Beach (50), Los Angeles (18), El Segundo (17), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for quality engineers and inspectors in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $137k/yr, with typical pay from $108k–$225k/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).

Do roles for quality engineers and inspectors in the Los Angeles area require US citizenship?

Of the 4,858 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 quality engineers and inspectors; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.