Who's Hiring in Space: Week of 2026-09-30

9,905 active job listings, 4,575 of them at private, pre-IPO companies across the space industry right now. Hiring activity below covers the seven days ending 2026-09-30 (2026-09-23 → 2026-09-30).

Coverage note (2026-09-26): 35 employers joined the tracker (+1,834 postings: Inversion Space, Isar Aerospace, Spire Global, Katalyst Space, AST SpaceMobile, LeoLabs, BlackSky, HawkEye 360 and 27 more). Anduril now counts space-segment roles only (−2,252 postings of non-space work). Hermeus now counts space-segment roles only (−85 postings of non-space work). Hadrian now counts space-segment roles only (−143 postings of non-space work). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring. No week-over-week change is shown this week for that reason.

Coverage note (2026-09-27): 11 employers joined the tracker (+1,192 postings: Leonardo, Leidos, Boeing, KBR, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Northrop Grumman, Axiom Space, Sierra Space and 3 more). Totals moving on this date reflect what we track, not market hiring. No week-over-week change is shown this week for that reason.

The week in numbers

Top hiring companies

New this week

1,007 listings were first posted in the last seven days.

Notable new roles:

• Principal Mechanical Engineer, Cargo Systems at Gravitics: Lead
• Director, FP&A at Gravitics: Director
• Principal Technical Director, National Security at Voyager Technologies: Director
• Starlink Product Growth Director (Pricing & Monetization Strategy) at SpaceX: Director
• Program Chief Engineer at Quindar: C-Suite

By category

• Engineering: 5,955 listings
• Manufacturing: 1,989 listings
• Operations: 1,082 listings
• Business: 679 listings
• Research: 131 listings
• Legal: 69 listings

Salary transparency

Median disclosed salary is $154,999, based on 541 listings that disclose salary.

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