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Space Jobs for Test Engineers in the Los Angeles Area

192 open roles for test engineers at 27 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in Long Beach and Hawthorne; typical pay runs $130k–$230k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring test engineers in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
SpaceX27$138k/yr
Relativity Space22$146k/yr
Impulse Space21$135k/yr
Rocket Lab17$130k/yr
Vast17$165k/yr
K2 Space15$158k/yr
True Anomaly9$150k/yr
Amazon Leo8$165k/yr
Apex8$165k/yr
Varda Space Industries8$151k/yr
Inversion Space7$128k/yr
Astrolab4$176k/yr
Northrop Grumman4$129k/yr
KBR3$152k/yr
Northwood Space3$135k/yr
Virgin Galactic3$181k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation2not stated
Anduril2too few figures
Boeing2too few figures
Booz Allen Hamilton2too few figures
Lockheed Martin2too few figures
General Galactic1too few figures
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)1too few figures
Millennium Space Systems1too few figures
MITRE1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 12:02 UTC

The 100 newest of 192; each employer's page above lists all of its roles.

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

Today, SpaceX (27 roles), Relativity Space (22 roles), Impulse Space (21 roles), Rocket Lab (17 roles), Vast (17 roles), K2 Space (15 roles), and 21 more. The table above lists the 25 with the most roles open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the roles for test engineers?

Most are in Long Beach (64), Hawthorne (32), Redondo Beach (25), El Segundo (23), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

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

The roles here that state pay post a median $147k/yr, with typical pay from $130k–$230k/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).

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

Of the 4,858 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 test engineers; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.