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Space Jobs for Technicians in the Los Angeles Area

201 open roles for technicians at 23 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Long Beach and Hawthorne; typical pay runs $63.4k–$111k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring technicians in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX56$63.4k/yr
Relativity Space39$73.5k/yr
Impulse Space17$83.2k/yr
K2 Space14$85.8k/yr
Rocket Lab10$64k/yr
Vast10$83.2k/yr
Millennium Space Systems8$79.6k/yr
Northrop Grumman6$81.5k/yr
True Anomaly6$72.5k/yr
Apex5$83.2k/yr
Inversion Space5$82.2k/yr
Blue Origin4too few figures
Varda Space Industries4$67.3k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)3$103k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation2not stated
Outpost2too few figures
Teledyne2too few figures
Terran Orbital2too few figures
Virgin Galactic2too few figures
Amazon Leo1too few figures
Astrolab1too few figures
L3Harris1too few figures
Northwood Space1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 08:02 UTC

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Which space companies hire technicians in the Los Angeles area?

Today, SpaceX (56 roles), Relativity Space (39 roles), Impulse Space (17 roles), K2 Space (14 roles), Rocket Lab (10 roles), Vast (10 roles), and 17 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 technicians?

Most are in Long Beach (65), Hawthorne (58), Los Angeles (24), Redondo Beach (21), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space roles for technicians in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $74.5k/yr, with typical pay from $63.4k–$111k/yr; 91.8% 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 690 aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians working in the Los Angeles area, in any industry, earn a median $98.9k/yr (BLS, May 2025). The space roles for technicians here post a median $74.5k/yr today, 24.7% below that; our research on levels and pay sets every profession and area side by side, once a day.

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

Of the 4,856 space postings in California whose text we read, 76.4% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 35.6% 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 technicians; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.