Space Jobs for Test Engineers

Showing the 33 roles that name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR), every country. See every role

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 271 out of 870 open roles for test engineers, 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 experience213
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)33
• Name a security clearance30
• Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)30
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition26
• Ask for a professional license10

Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 4 years.

Who hires test engineers in the space industry

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
Muon Space	13	$83.2k–$265k/yr
Array Labs	2	$150k–$250k/yr
Anduril	2	$147k–$220k/yr
Hubble Network	1	$105k–$175k/yr
Cowboy Space	4	$100k–$200k/yr
Astrolab	4	$140k–$240k/yr
Amazon Leo	70	$82.1k–$262k/yr
Portal Space Systems	3	$150k–$215k/yr
True Anomaly	12	$70k–$250k/yr
MITRE	1	$162k–$203k/yr
E-Space	7	$140k–$210k/yr
Stoke Space	6	$95.6k–$252k/yr
Inversion Space	7	$77k–$193k/yr
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems	5	$97k–$201k/yr
K2 Space	15	$62.4k–$220k/yr
General Galactic	1	$85k–$150k/yr
Xona Space Systems	4	$130k–$178k/yr
Loft Federal	1	$110k–$138k/yr
Trinzic	1	Not stated
Varda Space Industries	8	$109k–$203k/yr
Apex	8	$93.6k–$215k/yr
Loft Orbital	3	$62.4k–$155k/yr
Viasat	12	$82k–$242k/yr
Astra	3	$140k–$180k/yr
Skylo	2	$135k–$145k/yr
Impulse Space	26	$62.4k–$220k/yr
Capella Space	1	$80k–$105k/yr
KBR	9	$95k–$212k/yr
Quantum Space	1	$110k–$160k/yr
HawkEye 360	1	$70k–$115k/yr
Blue Origin	92	$66.6k–$377k/yr
BlackSky	4	$110k–$230k/yr
Gravitics	1	$110k–$140k/yr
CesiumAstro	16	$133k–$225k/yr
Voyager Technologies	9	$80k–$251k/yr
Northwood Space	3	$84k–$170k/yr
Relativity Space	25	$90k–$246k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton	3	$86.8k–$225k/yr
Sierra Space	7	$91.2k–$248k/yr
Boeing	8	$91.8k–$215k/yr
Vast	20	$86k–$249k/yr
Firefly Aerospace	5	Not stated
The Exploration Company	17	Not stated
Thales Alenia Space	15	Not stated
ICEYE	14	Not stated
OHB	12	Not stated
Airbus Defence and Space	7	Not stated
The Aerospace Corporation	6	Not stated
ArianeGroup	6	Not stated
Telesat	5	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	4	Not stated
Astroscale	3	Not stated
Axiom Space	3	Not stated
ClearSpace	2	Not stated
Elveo Mobile	2	Not stated
Eutelsat	2	Not stated
Exotrail	2	Not stated
HyImpulse	2	Not stated
NewOrbit Space	2	Not stated
Exolaunch	1	Not stated
Kepler Communications	1	Not stated
Open Cosmos	1	Not stated
Rocket Factory Augsburg	1	Not stated
Satellogic	1	Not stated
Sidus Space	1	Not stated
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL)	1	Not stated
Venus Aerospace	1	Not stated
SES	7	$121k–$190k/yr
Intuitive Machines	8	Not stated
RTX	4	$62.9k–$205k/yr
SpaceX	79	$85k–$265k/yr
ispace	4	$81k–$152k/yr
Rendezvous Robotics	3	$80k–$150k/yr
Lockheed Martin	55	$41.9k–$270k/yr
AST SpaceMobile	15	Not stated
Vantor	2	$120k–$167k/yr
SEAKR Engineering	2	$90k–$125k/yr
General Dynamics Mission Systems	8	$80.8k–$189k/yr
L3Harris	16	$67k–$180k/yr
Blue Canyon Technologies	1	Not stated
Virgin Galactic	5	$130k–$269k/yr
Redwire	4	$54.1k–$150k/yr
AeroVironment (AV)	4	$74.5k–$139k/yr
United Launch Alliance	6	$64.7k–$166k/yr
Northrop Grumman	26	$75.8k–$276k/yr
Leidos	3	$50.7k–$167k/yr
Iridium	5	$90k–$260k/yr
Rocket Lab	39	$52k–$236k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	1	$107k–$128k/yr
CACI	8	$45.9k–$182k/yr
Amentum	5	$92k/yr
Ursa Major	3	$109k–$136k/yr
Lunar Outpost	2	$49.9k/yr
Teledyne	2	$77.9k–$104k/yr
Peraton	1	$80k–$128k/yr
Moog	3	$75k–$185k/yr
Astranis	8	$60.3k–$235k/yr
AstroForge	2	$62.4k–$172k/yr
Benchmark Space Systems	1	$47.8k–$54.1k/yr

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.

How each employer checks you

For every employer currently hiring test engineers: its process as its own hiring guide describes it, each line with its source. The complete steps sit on that employer's page. 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.

Amazon Leo70 open

Assessment

Amazon's interview loop. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Blue Origin92 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Booz Allen Hamilton3 open

Assessment

Booz Allen's technical assessment and interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Thales Alenia Space15 open

Assessment

Thales interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Airbus Defence and Space7 open

Assessment

Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Lockheed Martin55 open

Assessment

Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Northrop Grumman26 open

Assessment

The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory1 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Where these roles are posted

The US states with the most open roles for test engineers, 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.

What our research measures about systems & test 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 hiring779 open roles (9.6% of the space roles we read) at 44 employers, 169 of them posted in the last 30 days.
• Where the jobs are5.8% 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 23.8% name a security clearance.
• Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Python (55%), MATLAB (25%) and C or C++ (20%).
• Degrees and experience2.4% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 29.9% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 4 years of experience at the least.
• Pay transparency46.7% of the postings state their pay, at a median $133,000 a year.
• Internships and entry level59 open roles are for someone starting out (7.6% of its open roles).
• Shifts, weekends and travel20.2% of the postings ask for weekend work, 18.9% for overtime or extended hours, and 2.2% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
• What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (83.3% of them), about a security clearance (44.1% of them), your GPA (21.7% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (19.0% of them), your salary expectations (34.0% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (37.3% of them).