Space Jobs for Software Engineers in the Boston Area

Today, Viasat (7 roles), L3Harris (2 roles), KBR (1 role). The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Boston area.

Most are in Marlborough, MA (6), Wilmington, MA (2), Boston, MA (1), Lexington, MA (1), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

The roles here that state pay post a median $162k/yr, with typical pay from $152k–$261k/yr. For reference, the 42,310 software developers working in the Boston area, in any industry, earn a median $166k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for software engineers here post a median $162k/yr today, 2.5% below that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

Many do: rocket, spacecraft and satellite work is often export-controlled under ITAR or the EAR, so most roles at US space employers are open only to US citizens or US persons, as each posting states. Our research on who can apply measures it employer by employer.

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 Boston area (the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Rockingham, Strafford and Suffolk 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 software engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.