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Security Clearance Space Jobs in the Los Angeles Area

959 open cleared roles at 29 space companies name a site in the Los Angeles area, most of them in El Segundo and Long Beach; typical pay runs $130k–$260k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring cleared people in the Los Angeles area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
The Aerospace Corporation145not stated
Boeing112$149k/yr
SpaceX102$150k/yr
Northrop Grumman97$143k/yr
Inversion Space75$165k/yr
True Anomaly71$198k/yr
Rocket Lab55$165k/yr
Anduril53$195k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton40$142k/yr
KBR33$152k/yr
Amazon Leo29$152k/yr
K2 Space24$158k/yr
RTX19$110k/yr
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory18$162k/yr
Apex14$123k/yr
Impulse Space12$183k/yr
Turion Space12$175k/yr
L3Harris8$127k/yr
Northwood Space7$171k/yr
Vantor7$141k/yr
Varda Space Industries7$207k/yr
MITRE6$179k/yr
Voyager Technologies6$211k/yr
Trinzic2too few figures
GITAI1too few figures

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Updated 30 Oct 2026, 21:05 UTC

The 100 newest of 959; each employer's page above lists all of its roles.

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What people ask about cleared space jobs in the Los Angeles area

Which space companies are hiring cleared people in the Los Angeles area?

Today, The Aerospace Corporation (145 roles), Boeing (112 roles), SpaceX (102 roles), Northrop Grumman (97 roles), Inversion Space (75 roles), True Anomaly (71 roles), and 23 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Los Angeles area.

Where in the Los Angeles area are the cleared space jobs?

Most are in El Segundo (361), Long Beach (130), Hawthorne (103), Redondo Beach (90), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do cleared space jobs in the Los Angeles area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $157k/yr, with typical pay from $130k–$260k/yr; 88.2% 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 cleared space jobs in the Los Angeles area require US citizenship?

Of the 3,014 space postings in California whose text we read, 79.6% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 23.5% 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 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.