Employer Awards and Recognition

The Aerospace Corporation takes pride in shaping an award-winning workplace that empowers its people to innovate, collaborate, and make a difference.
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2025

  • America's Best Employers for Engineers, Forbes

2024

  • America's Best-In-State Employer, Forbes
  • America's Best Employers for Veterans, Forbes
  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes
  • Best Companies to Work For, Zippia
  • Best Places to Work, Built In
  • Reader's Choice Top 50 Employers, STEM Workforce Diversity Magazine
  • Top 100 Internship Programs, Yello and WayUp
  • Top 50 Employers, Woman Engineer Magazine

2023

  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

2022

  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

2021

  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

2019

  • America's Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes
  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

2018

  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

2017

  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

2016

  • America's Best Midsize Employers, Forbes

2014

  • BEST Award Winner, Association for Talent Development
  • Learning Elite Program Organization, Chief Learning Officer Magazine
  • Readers' Choice Top 50 Employers, Careers and the disABLED Magazine 
  • Top 50 STEM Workplaces, AISES Winds of Change Magazine
  • Top Ten Employers for Engineering Students, AfterCollege Employer Popularity Index
  • Training Top 125, Training Magazine
  • World's Most Ethical Companies, Ethisphere Institute

2013

  • Top 50 STEM Workplaces, AISES Winds of Change Magazine

2012

  • Best Plcaes to Work for Commuters, National Center for Transit Research at USF

2010

  • Most Admired Companies in Research Science, Black Engineer & Information Technology

2009

  • Best Companies for Workers Over 50, AARP
  • Top Entry Level Employers, CollegeGrad
  • Top Intern Employers, CollegeGrad

2008

  • Best Companies for Workers Over 50, AARP
  • Best Employers for Latinos to Work for, Latinos for Hire
  • Top Intern Employers, CollegeGrad

Our Culture

Working at Aerospace means ensuring the safety and success of every government, civil and commercial space mission which means thinking big and aiming high. You’ll work side-by-side with some of the brightest minds in the field who will support you on whatever path your career takes. As an independent nonprofit, we deliver objective technical analysis, searching for technical truth and tackling the most complex challenges to ensure the safety and security of the U.S. space enterprise.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Aerospace, we believe that we can only fulfill our goals—and those of our customers—by securing a diverse and inclusive workforce, and an environment that will nurture the best ideas and generate the most novel innovations.
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Our Benefits

We work in a collaborative and inclusive environment with strong values focused on our mission, innovation, and people. We offer a comprehensive total rewards portfolio with a wide array of employee programs and services.
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All Aerospace employees working in organizations with technical responsibilities are required to apply for and maintain at least a Secret clearance.  U.S. citizenship is required for those positions.

 

Equal Opportunity Commitment

The Aerospace Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We believe that a diverse workforce creates an environment in which unique ideas are developed and differing perspectives are valued, producing superior customer solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, color, religion, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, physical disability, medical condition, mental disability, or disability status and any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. If you’re an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who needs assistance using our online job search and application tools or need reasonable accommodation to complete the job application process, please contact us by phone at 310.336.5432 or by email at ieo.mailbox@aero.org. You can also review Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal, as well as the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.