Space Jobs for Systems Engineers

Going by the 163 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for systems engineers (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $122k–$229k/yr and the median is $142k/yr. The top posted figure is $393k/yr, at Stoke Space. 186 of the 350 open roles for systems engineers state no pay, so check each listing.

Usually an engineering degree and years in a hardware discipline before systems work, with experience in requirements, verification or model-based tools for some roles. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 129 open roles for systems engineers whose requirements we read, 2 a master's, 110 at least a bachelor's and 17 name no degree.

A systems engineer at a space company owns how the parts of a vehicle or mission fit: the architecture and interfaces, the mass, power and data budgets, the requirements and their verification, and the trades between subsystems, working across every engineering team.

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.

Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Muon Space, Hubble Network, Momentus and Inversion 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.