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Space startups and companies in Los Angeles hiring now
The space startups and companies with the most open roles in Los Angeles right now are SpaceX, Rocket Lab and Relativity Space. 60% of their open roles in Los Angeles are in hardware & robotics. Most roles sit in Hawthorne, Long Beach and Los Angeles. Every role comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.
2,024
open roles in Los Angeles
60%
of roles in hardware & robotics
20%
of roles in software engineering
Where the roles are:Hawthorne 35%Long Beach 33%Los Angeles 26%Redondo Beach 7%
Companies
Who is hiring in Los Angeles
Relativity Space
Long Beach, US · YC W16
Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets.
202 open roles6% remote
K2 Space
Torrance, US · Series C
K2 Space is developing the Giga Class satellite bus, an ultra-high-power spacecraft capable of delivering over 115kW of power and 15,000kg of payload mass to enable previously unattainable capabilities spanning ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconna K2 Space is developing the Giga Class satellite bus, an ultra high-power spacecraft capable of delivering up to 115kW of power and 15,000kg of payload mass to enable previously unattainable capabilities spanning ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and K2 Space is developing a multipurpose, dual-use, wideband, software-defined phased array payload that leverages the capabilities of the K2 Space Mega Class satellite bus to perform various functions for the commercial and national defense markets.
160 open roles62% remote
Impulse Space
Redondo Beach, US · Series C
Impulse Space develops in-space transportation technology and services, including orbital transfer vehicles and rocket engines. Its vehicles move payloads across and between orbits for commercial, civil, and government missions.
137 open roles0% remote
True Anomaly
Centennial, US · Series D
True Anomaly designs and builds spacecraft, software, and payloads for space superiority.
129 open roles1% remote
Vast
Long Beach, US · Series A
Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach. Haven Demo's 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft.
112 open roles1% remote
Apex Technology, Inc.
Los Angeles, US · Series C
Apex manufactures commercial-off-the-shelf satellite buses at scale using software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing. Its productized bus platforms increase reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate mission timelines.
103 open roles0% remote
Varda Space Industries
El Segundo, US · Series C
Varda processes materials in orbit and returns them to Earth.
71 open roles0% remote
CesiumAstro
Austin, US · Series C
CesiumAstro provides full-stack infrastructure for agile space communications. The company designs, manufactures, and tests communication systems and satellites in U.S. facilities. Its products enable connectivity between satellites, drones, planes, cars, and other mobile devices. CesiumAstro delivers next-generation systems that connect, detect, and defend across commercial, government, and national security missions.
33 open roles0% remote
Venturi Astrolab
Hawthorne, US
Venturi Astrolab (Astrolab) designs, builds, and operates a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers.
28 open roles18% remote
Reflect Orbital
Hawthorne, US · Series A
Reflect Orbital sells sunlight from orbit to solar farms and large-scale lighting applications after sunset using a large constellation of in-space reflectors. The company is building a constellation of satellites designed to reflect sunlight down to Earth for large-scale lighting and energy applications.
17 open roles0% remote
GITAI
Tokyo, JP · Series B
GITAI develops space robots that perform work such as construction, resource mining and servicing in orbit and on planetary surfaces.
13 open roles0% remote
Endeavor Optical Networks
Culver City, US · Seed
The company's network uses free-space laser communications and optical relay satellites to deliver dedicated point-to-point data transfer, enabling customers to establish intercontinental network capacity and path redundancy without relying on subsea cable infrastructure.
8 open roles0% remote
AstroForge
Huntington Beach, US · Series A
AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts platinum group metals and other critical minerals from asteroids. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, it breaks it up, refines it, and returns only what is valuable.
6 open roles0% remote
Sophia Space
Pasadena, US · Seed
Sophia Space is building orbital compute and data centers to process AI workloads closer to where data is collected and deliver it faster to where it is needed on Earth.
5 open roles0% remote
Orbital Operations
Long Beach, US · Seed · YC W25
Orbital Operations is developing a high thrust, reusable space vehicle for satellite defense. Their first vehicle, Astraeus, is powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and built around an actively cooled cryogenic storage system.
4 open roles
EnduroSat
Sofia, BG · Series B
EnduroSat designs, builds, and operates CubeSats and nanosatellites for commercial, governmental, and scientific missions. The company streamlines space missions in LEO and beyond, handling every step from mission design to launch and operations.
4 open roles56% remote
Starfish Space Inc.
Kent, US · Series B
Starfish Space provides satellite servicing missions with its Otter servicing vehicle, including life extension missions for geostationary satellites and disposal missions for low Earth orbit satellites. Otter is an autonomous satellite servicing vehicle that uses exclusively electric propulsion to dock with satellites.
1 open roles13% remote
SpaceX
Starbase, US
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX operates Starlink which delivers high-speed, low-latency broadband internet to customers around the globe.
623 open roles11% remote
Rocket Lab
Long Beach, US · Post Ipo
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering rockets, satellites, and spacecraft components for commercial, government, and defense missions. It operates the Electron small orbital launch vehicle and is developing the Neutron medium-lift launch vehicle.
213 open roles0% remote
Blue Origin
kent, US
Blue Origin builds reusable rockets and rocket engines for spaceflight. Its products also include lunar landers and in-space mobility systems.
155 open roles2% remote
Open roles
Newest roles in Los Angeles
Impulse Space
Redondo Beach
Senior RF Test Engineer
Redondo Beach
$135k–$180k
today
Impulse Space
Redondo Beach
RF Test Engineer
Redondo Beach
$105k–$130k
today
Impulse Space
Redondo Beach
Senior Propulsion Component Engineer (Electromechanical)
Redondo Beach
$140k–$195k
today
Apex Technology, Inc.
Los Angeles
Director of Cybersecurity
Los Angeles
$195k–$270k
1d ago
Vast
Long Beach, California, United States
Senior Network Automation Engineer
Long Beach, California, United States
$131k–$186k
1d ago
Varda Space Industries
El Segundo, California, United States
Propulsion Engineer I - Hardware and Bus Systems
El Segundo, California, United States
$109k–$139k
1d ago
Rocket Lab
Long Beach, CA
Senior DevOps Engineer I
Long Beach, CA
$124k–$207k
1d ago
True Anomaly
Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA
Mission Security Administrator II
Denver, CO; Long Beach, CA
$80k–$115k
1d ago
Space hiring in Los Angeles
This page covers Los Angeles, Hawthorne, El Segundo and Long Beach. Relativity Space: Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. K2 Space: K2 Space is developing the Giga Class satellite bus, an ultra-high-power spacecraft capable of delivering over 115kW of power and 15,000kg of payload mass to enable previously unattainable capabilities spanning ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconna K2 Space is developing the Giga Class satellite bus, an ultra high-power spacecraft capable of delivering up to 115kW of power and 15,000kg of payload mass to enable previously unattainable capabilities spanning ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and K2 Space is developing a multipurpose, dual-use, wideband, software-defined phased array payload that leverages the capabilities of the K2 Space Mega Class satellite bus to perform various functions for the commercial and national defense markets. Impulse Space: Impulse Space develops in-space transportation technology and services, including orbital transfer vehicles and rocket engines. Its vehicles move payloads across and between orbits for commercial, civil, and government missions. SpaceX alone holds 31% of the open roles here, so the companies below it are worth a look too.
The roles they hire for
Across the open roles in Los Angeles today, the mix is hardware & robotics (60%), software engineering (20%), security (6%), sales & business development (4%) and program & project management (2%).
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Frequently asked
Which space startups and companies in Los Angeles are hiring the most?
Right now: SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, K2 Space and Blue Origin. The list above shows startups first, then larger companies, each ranked by its open roles in Los Angeles today.
Where in Los Angeles are they hiring?
Most roles are in Hawthorne, Long Beach, Los Angeles and Redondo Beach. The page covers Los Angeles, Hawthorne, El Segundo and Long Beach.
Do space startups and companies in Los Angeles hire remotely?
3% of the roles here are listed as remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.
What roles do space startups and companies in Los Angeles hire for?
The most common are hardware & robotics, software engineering and security.
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