K2 Space
Making previously impossible missions possible
Greater Los Angeles Area347 people
250 open roles
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Roles are read from K2 Space’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
K2 Space hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- K2 Space has the 5th most open roles of 2,939 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 250 open roles is 24.9× the average hiring startup (10.1).
- 78% of openings are in Engineering, then Other (13%).
- Most roles are senior (38%). 15 roles suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 347, these openings would grow headcount by up to 72%.
- Engineering pay here (median $165k) is 10% below the market median for Engineering ($184k).
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- 82% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 4% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 90% of postings mention equity.
- 250 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 4 months old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
Momentum, explained
- K2 Space hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 250
- Roles added in 30 days
- 250
- Roles added in 90 days
- 250
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #5
- of 2,939 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.72
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 250
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 9
- 4% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 23
- 9% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 4 months
- Oldest: 19 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $160k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $142k–$188k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 82%
- 206 of 250
- Mention equity
- 90%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 4%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 15
- 8 internships
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
- 7 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
250
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering19578%
- 2Other3213%
- 3Operations104%
- 4Data42%
- 5People42%
- 6Finance31%
- 7Legal2<1%
- 1Senior9638%
- 2Mid level8534%
- 3Principal3916%
- 4Manager135%
- 5Internship83%
- 6Graduate / entry73%
- 7Director1<1%
- 8Executive1<1%
- 1Not stated24196%
- 2Remote94%
- 1Los Angeles20281%
- 2Seattle229%
- 3United States - Remote94%
- 4Washington1<1%
- 1Not stated250100%
- 1Mechanical2711%
- 2Software2711%
- 3Vehicle Operations2711%
- 4Silicon2610%
- 5Avionics2410%
- 6Operations229%
- 7Product Engineering166%
- 8Supply Chain156%
+66 more across 13 others
$52kLow$142k25th$160kMedian$188k75th$295kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every K2 Space role.