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Top Secret Clearance Space Jobs

1,385 open roles at space companies name a Top Secret clearance in their own posting, posting a median $152k/yr, read from employer job boards every hour.

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 07:01 UTC

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Questions about Top Secret Clearance space jobs

What is a Top Secret clearance?

It is access to information whose unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to national security, the highest of the three classification levels. Only US citizens can hold one. Our guide to ITAR and security clearances explains each level and how it is granted.

Which space companies hire people with a Top Secret clearance?

1,385 open roles name it in their own posting today; the newest are at MITRE, BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems, Rocket Lab, Lockheed Martin, Iridium. The cleared roles at every level are listed together.

What do Top Secret Clearance space jobs pay?

The postings that name it and state pay posted a median $152k/yr, against $145k/yr for postings that name no clearance, in our research on who can apply. Where the work is and who posts it shape the median as much as the clearance does.

How is this list made?

We read each employer's own job board every hour and keep each posting's text. A role is listed here when the highest clearance its posting names is Top Secret; roles read from a listing only are left out.