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Communications and payloads in the Los Angeles area

Space Jobs for RF Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

135 open roles for RF and communications engineers at 22 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in El Segundo and Long Beach; typical pay runs $143k–$270k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring RF and communications engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX23$166k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation22not stated
Rocket Lab12$156k/yr
Boeing11$116k/yr
K2 Space9$158k/yr
Northwood Space9$183k/yr
CesiumAstro6$168k/yr
Impulse Space5$153k/yr
Relativity Space5$187k/yr
Apex4$156k/yr
Inversion Space4$165k/yr
MITRE4$179k/yr
True Anomaly4$233k/yr
Anduril3$195k/yr
Varda Space Industries3$207k/yr
Amazon Leo2too few figures
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)2too few figures
Lockheed Martin2too few figures
Vast2too few figures
Astrolab1too few figures
Northrop Grumman1too few figures
Terran Orbital1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 15:02 UTC

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Which space companies hire RF and communications engineers in the Los Angeles area?

Today, SpaceX (23 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (22 roles), Rocket Lab (12 roles), Boeing (11 roles), K2 Space (9 roles), Northwood Space (9 roles), and 16 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 RF and communications engineers?

Most are in El Segundo (45), Long Beach (23), Hawthorne (15), Los Angeles (13), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for RF and communications engineers in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $165k/yr, with typical pay from $143k–$270k/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 4,880 electronics engineers, except computer working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $141k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for RF and communications engineers here post a median $165k/yr today, 17.4% above that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

Do roles for RF and communications engineers 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 RF and communications engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.