{
 "name": "ClearedBuild cleared jobs report",
 "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/data/cleared-jobs/",
 "as_of": "2026-10-28T00:22:39.319Z",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "publisher": "ClearedBuild (Norwell Systems LLC)",
 "method": "Open roles read from the public careers boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) of defense, space and national security companies every three hours. A role counts when its posting asks for a US security clearance that the candidate must hold or the employer will sponsor; boilerplate mentions are excluded. Roles found in the last 72 hours are excluded until they become public. Pay figures are the employer's stated annual ranges only, as medians of the stated minimums and maximums, shown where at least five roles state pay.",
 "total_open_roles": 3431,
 "companies": 74,
 "remote_roles": 283,
 "roles_with_pay_stated": 2445,
 "must_hold_now": 1302,
 "employer_sponsors": 2129,
 "by_clearance_level": {
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   "open_roles": 63,
   "median_stated_annual_pay": {
    "min": 150000,
    "max": 225000,
    "roles": 35
   }
  },
  "TS/SCI": {
   "open_roles": 585,
   "median_stated_annual_pay": {
    "min": 155000,
    "max": 209000,
    "roles": 305
   }
  },
  "Top Secret": {
   "open_roles": 901,
   "median_stated_annual_pay": {
    "min": 161000,
    "max": 219000,
    "roles": 659
   }
  },
  "DOE Q or L": {
   "open_roles": 2,
   "median_stated_annual_pay": null
  },
  "Secret": {
   "open_roles": 1033,
   "median_stated_annual_pay": {
    "min": 148950,
    "max": 212000,
    "roles": 914
   }
  },
  "Public Trust": {
   "open_roles": 4,
   "median_stated_annual_pay": null
  },
  "Clearance, level not stated": {
   "open_roles": 843,
   "median_stated_annual_pay": {
    "min": 147000,
    "max": 196275,
    "roles": 439
   }
  }
 },
 "by_state": {
  "California": 1757,
  "Colorado": 250,
  "District of Columbia": 178,
  "Virginia": 173,
  "Massachusetts": 168,
  "Washington": 160,
  "Texas": 120,
  "Ohio": 93,
  "New York": 51,
  "Georgia": 30,
  "Rhode Island": 28,
  "Alabama": 26,
  "Florida": 25,
  "Arizona": 24,
  "Hawaii": 16,
  "Maryland": 15,
  "Mississippi": 13,
  "North Carolina": 12,
  "Pennsylvania": 11,
  "Nevada": 9,
  "New Hampshire": 7,
  "Louisiana": 6,
  "Tennessee": 6,
  "Missouri": 2,
  "Vermont": 2,
  "Kansas": 1,
  "Minnesota": 1,
  "Nebraska": 1,
  "Illinois": 1
 },
 "by_role_family": {
  "Software engineering": 822,
  "Electrical and hardware engineering": 253,
  "Mechanical, aerospace and manufacturing engineering": 575,
  "Systems, integration and test": 526,
  "Intelligence, mission and analysis": 50,
  "Cybersecurity and IT": 238,
  "Field operations and technicians": 158,
  "Program and project management": 326,
  "Business, finance, legal and people": 414,
  "Security and facility security officers": 69
 },
 "top_employers": [
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   "name": "Anduril Industries",
   "open_roles": 1673,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/anduril-industries/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Shield AI",
   "open_roles": 239,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/shield-ai/"
  },
  {
   "name": "SpaceX",
   "open_roles": 203,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/spacex/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Rocket Lab",
   "open_roles": 149,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/rocket-lab/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Palantir Technologies",
   "open_roles": 137,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/palantir-technologies/"
  },
  {
   "name": "True Anomaly",
   "open_roles": 109,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/true-anomaly/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Chaos Industries",
   "open_roles": 86,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/chaos-industries/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Inversion Space",
   "open_roles": 76,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/inversion-space/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Two Six Technologies",
   "open_roles": 62,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/two-six-technologies/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Voyager Technologies",
   "open_roles": 60,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/voyager-technologies/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Muon Space",
   "open_roles": 42,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/muon-space/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Applied Intuition",
   "open_roles": 38,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/applied-intuition/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Scale AI",
   "open_roles": 31,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/scale-ai/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Saronic Technologies",
   "open_roles": 28,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/saronic-technologies/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Raft",
   "open_roles": 26,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/raft/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Zone 5 Technologies",
   "open_roles": 26,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/zone-5-technologies/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Air",
   "open_roles": 25,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/air/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Code Metal",
   "open_roles": 25,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/code-metal/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Vannevar Labs",
   "open_roles": 24,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/vannevar-labs/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Virtualitics",
   "open_roles": 20,
   "url": "https://clearedbuild.com/companies/virtualitics/"
  }
 ]
}