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Space Jobs for Technicians
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 823 open roles for technicians on 78 space industry employers, including Outpost, Umbra and Cowboy Space; typical pay across them is $62.4k to $114k a year (median $73.8k), topped by $178k a year advertised at Relativity Space.
AIT Test Technician (opens the job details)
Dawn Aerospace · Technicians · Delft, South Holland, Netherlands· 1mo agoDetails
Avionics Technician - Spaceplane (opens the job details)
Dawn Aerospace · Technicians · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand· 2mo agoDetails
Aircraft Maintenance Technician (opens the job details)
Dawn Aerospace · Technicians · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand· 2mo agoDetails
Measured from 404 distinct posted rates, across 48 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 418 of the 823 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire technicians to build, integrate and test rockets and spacecraft by hand, on the factory floor, at test stands and at the launch site. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for technicians
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Electrical, harness and avionics technicians
1 openBuild and test harnesses, boards and avionics, often to IPC or NASA workmanship standards.
Avionics Technician - Spaceplane (opens the job details)
Dawn Aerospace · Technicians · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand· 2mo agoDetails
Launch, pad and facilities technicians
1 openPrepare vehicles at the launch site and keep pads, test sites and facilities running.
Aircraft Maintenance Technician (opens the job details)
Dawn Aerospace · Technicians · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand· 2mo agoDetails
Assembly, integration and test technicians
1 openAssemble and integrate rockets and spacecraft and run their tests.
AIT Test Technician (opens the job details)
Dawn Aerospace · Technicians · Delft, South Holland, Netherlands· 1mo agoDetails
Before you apply
Space hardware is built, tested and flown in person, so many roles name a factory, a test site, a launch site or a control room, and each listing states its location. US roles that touch export-controlled technology (ITAR or EAR) can ask that you be a U.S. person, and some ask for a security clearance. A real employer never charges you to apply, never interviews you only by chat app and never asks you to buy equipment.
Pay by specialty
Every specialty gets its typical band from its own open roles, computed by the same method as the rest of the site (the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top). A specialty is listed once three or more distinct rates have been posted.
What the roles ask for
Drawn from the requirement lines of 338 out of 823 open roles for technicians, the same lines each role's pop-up quotes from its posting. Each role is counted once, at the lowest degree it will accept.
- Name years of experience280
- Ask for a certification113
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)31
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition31
- Ask for a professional license15
- Name iPC or NASA workmanship certification7
- Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)2
- Name an A&P license1
Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 3 years.
Who hires technicians in the space industry
Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
Where these roles are posted
The US states with the most open roles for technicians, and the roles posted for a single country. A place name leads to its own page, and a country's count lists the matching roles.
In the US, by state
- California228
- Texas176
- Florida83
- Washington79
- Colorado43
- Maryland21
- Alabama17
- Arizona15
- Mississippi14
Space industry jobs by US state
The public record, in every industry: 11,600 aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians work in the US (2025), projected to grow 12% by 2035, at a median $82.9k/yr (BLS, May 2025). Each state's page gives its own.
What our research measures about technicians work
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-29 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring1,439 open roles (17.7% of the space roles we read) at 37 employers, 327 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are2.9% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply78.2% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 7.1% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: GD&T (ASME Y14.5) (23%), Lean or Six Sigma (19%) and SAP or another ERP (13%).
- Degrees and experience38.4% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 9.4% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 2 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency41.3% of the postings state their pay, at a median $85,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level85 open roles are for someone starting out (5.9% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel42.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 48.4% for overtime or extended hours, and 15.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (87.0% of them), about a security clearance (58.7% of them), your GPA (20.2% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (19.5% of them), your salary expectations (29.3% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (55.1% of them).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do technicians earn in the space industry?
Going by the 404 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for technicians (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $62.4k–$114k/yr and the median is $73.8k/yr. The top posted figure is $178k/yr, at Relativity Space. 418 of the 823 open roles for technicians state no pay, so check each listing.
Do I need a degree?
Many technician roles do not ask for one: they ask instead for hands-on experience, a trade school or military background, or a certification such as IPC soldering or an A&P license. Each listing states what it requires, the shift and the location. Of the 338 open roles for technicians whose requirements we read, 1 a master's, 30 at least a bachelor's and 307 name no degree.
What does a technician do at a space company?
A technician at a space company builds and tests the hardware: assembling structures and engines, building harnesses and boards, laying up composites, running tests and preparing vehicles at the pad, working from drawings and procedures and recording every step.
How do space companies hire technicians?
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.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Outpost, Umbra, Cowboy Space and Amazon Leo 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.
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