Space Jobs for Welders

Listed here: Rocket Lab roles. See every employer

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 70 out of 90 open roles for welders, 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 experience58
• Ask for a certification26
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition12
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)8
• Name a welding certification5

Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 3 years.

Who hires welders in the space industry

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
K2 Space	1	Not stated
Firefly Aerospace	3	Not stated
Blue Origin	27	Not stated
Axiom Space	1	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	1	Not stated
SpaceX	37	$47.8k–$190k/yr
Voyager Technologies	2	$52k–$68.6k/yr
Relativity Space	10	$47.4k–$124k/yr
Vast	4	$49.9k–$93.8k/yr
Rocket Lab	4	$52k–$109k/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.

Where these roles are posted

The US states with the most open roles for welders, 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 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.