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Space Jobs for Software Engineers in the Denver Area

236 open roles for software engineers at 26 space companies name a site in the Denver area, most of them in Denver and Littleton; typical pay runs $136k–$276k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring software engineers in the Denver area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Lockheed Martin48$158k/yr
True Anomaly41$198k/yr
Blue Origin22$198k/yr
United Launch Alliance15$144k/yr
CesiumAstro14$147k/yr
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems10$159k/yr
Northrop Grumman10$130k/yr
Loft Orbital9$173k/yr
Rocket Lab8$139k/yr
Vantor8$149k/yr
Lunar Outpost6too few figures
Quindar6$150k/yr
Sierra Space6$168k/yr
RTX5$156k/yr
Katalyst Space Technologies4$131k/yr
Loft Federal4$146k/yr
ispace3too few figures
Muon Space3$203k/yr
Rendezvous Robotics3too few figures
Viasat3$181k/yr
Parsons2too few figures
Redwire2too few figures
Booz Allen Hamilton1too few figures
LeoLabs1too few figures
Moog1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 01:02 UTC

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What people ask about software engineers' work in the Denver area

Which space companies hire software engineers in the Denver area?

Today, Lockheed Martin (48 roles), True Anomaly (41 roles), Blue Origin (22 roles), United Launch Alliance (15 roles), CesiumAstro (14 roles), BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems (10 roles), and 20 more. The table above lists the 25 with the most roles open in the Denver area.

Where in the Denver area are the roles for software engineers?

Most are in Denver (76), Littleton (54), Westminster (30), Centennial (21), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for software engineers in the Denver area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $158k/yr, with typical pay from $136k–$276k/yr; 93.2% of Colorado's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Colorado's law has required every employer with at least one employee in Colorado to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Jan 2021 (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 27,010 software developers working in the Denver area, in any industry, earn a median $138k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for software engineers here post a median $158k/yr today, 14.8% above that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

Do roles for software engineers in the Denver area require US citizenship?

Of the 533 space postings in Colorado whose text we read, 74.7% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 59.7% 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 Denver area (the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson and Park 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.