Salary Expectation for Bay Area New Space

Apr 13 12 Comments

I will be receiving an offer in the next few days for a space startup and I am not sure what my expectations should be. I am afraid that being a startup, it may be rather low but also it should be competitive since many are ex blue origin/SpaceX. Any advice on what to expect for 5 YOE propulsion engineer?

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  • Blue Origin / Design
    doghorse

    Go to company page Blue Origin Design

    doghorse
    Is it Astra? I spoke with them but wasn’t open to relocation. I’d probably guess ~110-120k’s base salary. But keep in kind you’ll have stocks and likely negotiate a signing bonus (if that matters to you).
    Apr 18 3
    • Not astra but I spoke to them too. Gotta say blue origin was the worse experience I've had. They were very rude and ended up cancelling my interview because I said I was expecting an offer and asked to expedite. Pretty much everyone I spoke to was arrogant and had some kind of problem.
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    • Pratt & Whitney
      aerovibez

      Pratt & Whitney

      aerovibez
      Blue Origin was also a pretty awful experience for me. I had an initial 30min phone screen and the hiring manager was asking me questions I could talk about for hours, so I summarized things at a high level. No follow-up interview and the feedback I got was my experience and skills were insufficient. Been in this line of work for 7 years and have plenty of other (better) offers lining up. Almost seems like they interviewed me just so they could say they interviewed someone, with no intentions of following through.
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  • Pratt & Whitney
    aerovibez

    Pratt & Whitney

    aerovibez
    What did it end up being?
    Apr 17 6
    • Wait so if salary sounds about right but TC seems low what makes up the difference besides equity? A higher bonus target? I'm confused.
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    • Astra
      fQsT03

      Astra

      fQsT03
      I guess we don’t have enough info to know whether your equity or bonus is too low. Is this an early stage (Series A) or late stage (Series C, D, …) startup? This might be expected for the former and less so for the latter.
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  • Wonder if this is the same position I got ghosted during
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