The short answer
Right now: 8,498 open space-industry roles across 41 companies on our board, 1.4% of them remote or hybrid. The largest category is engineering.
The space industry hires for skills, not for a love of space. Nobody is paid to be enthusiastic. They are paid to design a valve, run a test campaign, machine a part to tolerance, close a government contract, write flight software, or keep a satellite operator on the right side of export law. If you can already do one of those things in another industry, you are closer than you think; if you cannot yet, the fastest route is to pick one and get demonstrably good at it.
Three things separate this industry from most others. It is geographically concentrated — a handful of metro areas hold most of the roles, and hardware jobs do not go remote. It is citizenship-sensitive — a large share of US postings require a US person because the technology is export-controlled. And it hires in bursts, following funding rounds and contract awards, which is why watching who is expanding matters more than watching the calendar.
The rest of this guide is the live picture — where, who, how much — followed by the six routes in, including the one that needs no degree.
Where the jobs are (live)
Open roles by category, from the board at the moment you loaded this page. The shape is the point: engineering is the biggest slice, but it is not the majority, and the rest is where people who did not study aerospace get in.