Industrial and personnel security
Space Jobs for Security Professionals
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 113 open roles for security professionals on 39 space industry employers, including Muon Space, Umbra and True Anomaly; typical pay across them is $92.5k to $215k a year (median $116k), topped by $245k a year advertised at Relativity Space.
Site Security Manager (opens the job details)
Thales Alenia Space · Supply Chain · Torino, Italy· 6d agoDetails
Measured from 71 distinct posted rates, across 27 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 40 of the 113 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies working on government programs hire security professionals to run the security of their cleared facilities, classified programs and launch sites. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for security professionals
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 14:02 UTCShowing the 1 roles posted for Italy. See every role
Physical and site security
1 openProtect the factories, test sites and launch sites: access, guards and security systems.
Site Security Manager (opens the job details)
Thales Alenia Space · Supply Chain · Torino, Italy· 6d agoDetails
Before you apply
Space hardware is built, tested and flown in person, so many roles name a factory, a test site, a launch site or a control room, and each listing states its location. US roles that touch export-controlled technology (ITAR or EAR) can ask that you be a U.S. person, and some ask for a security clearance. A real employer never charges you to apply, never interviews you only by chat app and never asks you to buy equipment.
Pay by specialty
Every specialty gets its typical band from its own open roles, computed by the same method as the rest of the site (the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top). A specialty is listed once three or more distinct rates have been posted.
What the roles ask for
Drawn from the requirement lines of 65 out of 113 open roles for security professionals, the same lines each role's pop-up quotes from its posting. Each role is counted once, at the lowest degree it will accept.
- Name years of experience42
- Name a security clearance33
- Ask for a certification16
- Name a security credential (ISP, SPeD, CPP, PSP)3
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)2
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition1
Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 5 years.
Who hires security professionals in the space industry
Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
Security Professional salary by employer
What each employer's own postings pay security professionals, by level and by site, with every role and its posted pay.
How each employer checks you
For every employer currently hiring security professionals: its process as its own hiring guide describes it, each line with its source. The complete steps sit on that employer's page. Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Thales interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
Where these roles are posted
The US states with the most open roles for security professionals, and the roles posted for a single country. A place name leads to its own page, and a country's count lists the matching roles.
In the US, by state
- California33
- Colorado20
- Texas13
- Virginia11
Space industry jobs by US state
In the US, by metro area
What our research measures about programs & business work
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring2,351 open roles (14.8% of the space roles we read) at 134 employers, 948 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are4.1% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply59.4% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 31.7% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Excel (21%), SAP or another ERP (15%) and Jira (8%).
- Degrees and experience4.8% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 25.0% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency58.8% of the postings state their pay, at a median $148,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level95 open roles are for someone starting out (4.0% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel15.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 17.1% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (77.6% of them), about a security clearance (47.7% of them), your GPA (25.3% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (24.4% of them), your salary expectations (26.5% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (41.7% of them).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do security professionals earn in the space industry?
Going by the 71 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for security professionals (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $92.5k–$215k/yr and the median is $116k/yr. The top posted figure is $245k/yr, at Relativity Space. 40 of the 113 open roles for security professionals state no pay, so check each listing.
Do security roles at space companies need a clearance?
Most facility and program security roles ask for an active clearance, often Top Secret, and experience under the government's security rules for contractors (32 CFR Part 117, NISPOM); some ask for a security credential. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 65 open roles for security professionals whose requirements we read, 28 at least a bachelor's and 37 name no degree.
What does a security professional do at a space company?
A security professional at a space company keeps classified work and the sites it happens at secure: facility and program security officers run clearances, visits and inspections under the government's rules for contractors, industrial and personnel security staff process the clearances themselves, and physical security protects the factories and launch sites.
How do space companies hire security professionals?
Each employer runs its own hiring, and each listing says what it asks for: the degree or the hands-on experience, the location, and for export-controlled work in the US, often U.S. person status. Of the employers hiring security professionals now, none publishes a recorded interview or an ID check in the guides we hold. The section on how each employer checks you quotes each guide with its source.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Muon Space, Umbra, True Anomaly and E-Space among them), and each employer's page here covers who they are and how they hire. A real employer never charges you to apply, never asks you to buy equipment and never interviews you only by chat app.
Which space companies pay security professionals the most?
Of the 2 employers whose postings for security professionals state enough pay for a figure, the highest medians are Northrop Grumman ($116k/yr) and SpaceX ($101k/yr). A median is of what each employer's open roles post today, by the same formula for every employer.
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