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Space Jobs for Software Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

378 open roles for software engineers at 35 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Hawthorne and Long Beach; typical pay runs $149k–$271k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring software engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX124$160k/yr
True Anomaly41$198k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation22not stated
Relativity Space19$192k/yr
K2 Space17$180k/yr
Impulse Space16$184k/yr
Anduril14$204k/yr
Inversion Space14$170k/yr
Vast12$197k/yr
Boeing10$154k/yr
Northrop Grumman10$143k/yr
Apex9$169k/yr
Rocket Lab9$165k/yr
Northwood Space8$161k/yr
Amazon Leo6$183k/yr
RTX6$110k/yr
Varda Space Industries6$193k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory4$164k/yr
KBR4$143k/yr
CesiumAstro3$154k/yr
Reflect Orbital3$60.3k/yr
Voyager Technologies3$175k/yr
Blue Origin2too few figures
General Galactic2too few figures
Quantum Space2too few figures

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Updated 30 Oct 2026, 20:04 UTC

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What people ask about software engineers' work in the Los Angeles area

Which space companies hire software engineers in the Los Angeles area?

Today, SpaceX (124 roles), True Anomaly (41 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (22 roles), Relativity Space (19 roles), K2 Space (17 roles), Impulse Space (16 roles), and 29 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 software engineers?

Most are in Hawthorne (129), Long Beach (81), El Segundo (54), Los Angeles (31), 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 Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $170k/yr, with typical pay from $149k–$271k/yr; 88.2% 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 55,540 software developers working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $161k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

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

Of the 3,014 space postings in California whose text we read, 79.6% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 23.5% 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 software engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.