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Security Clearance Space Jobs in the Colorado Springs Area

255 open cleared roles at 23 space companies name a site in the Colorado Springs area, most of them in Colorado Springs and Schriever AFB; typical pay runs $116k–$224k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring cleared people in the Colorado Springs area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Northrop Grumman62$130k/yr
KBR41$125k/yr
Lockheed Martin35$150k/yr
L3Harris21$132k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation20not stated
Booz Allen Hamilton17$142k/yr
Amentum11too few figures
Boeing9$135k/yr
Anduril8$180k/yr
Parsons5$154k/yr
CACI4$127k/yr
MITRE4$165k/yr
Trinzic4too few figures
True Anomaly3$200k/yr
Vantor3$109k/yr
Johns Hopkins APL1too few figures
Leidos1too few figures
Millennium Space Systems1too few figures
Peraton1too few figures
RTX1too few figures
SEAKR Engineering1too few figures
Slingshot Aerospace1too few figures
US Space Force1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 07:01 UTC

The 100 newest of 255; each employer's page above lists all of its roles.

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What people ask about cleared space jobs in the Colorado Springs area

Which space companies are hiring cleared people in the Colorado Springs area?

Today, Northrop Grumman (62 roles), KBR (41 roles), Lockheed Martin (35 roles), L3Harris (21 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (20 roles), Booz Allen Hamilton (17 roles), and 17 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Colorado Springs area.

Where in the Colorado Springs area are the cleared space jobs?

Most are in Colorado Springs (226), Schriever AFB (22), Peterson AFB (5), Schriever SFB (2), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do cleared space jobs in the Colorado Springs area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $131k/yr, with typical pay from $116k–$224k/yr; 93.2% of Colorado's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Colorado's law has required every employer with at least one employee in Colorado to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Jan 2021 (each state's law beside its postings).

Do cleared space jobs in the Colorado Springs area require US citizenship?

Of the 2,072 space postings in Colorado whose text we read, 58.3% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 63.3% 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 Colorado Springs area (the Colorado Springs, CO metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: El Paso and Teller counties), by the same reading as our research on where space jobs are, and its posting names a security clearance level (Secret, Top Secret or TS/SCI) by the same reading as every cleared space job; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.