Hawthorne, CA jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Hawthorne
- Sr. Business Operations Analyst (Starlink)SpaceX
- Marketing CoordinatorOSI Optoelectronics
- Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - HYBRIDOSI Systems
- Technical Sales Manager – Aerospace and Defense - REMOTEOSI Systems
- Semiconductor Test EngineerOSI Systems
- Marketing DirectorReflect Orbital
- Head of Environmental Health and SafetyReflect Orbital
- Principal Mission Operations EngineerReflect Orbital
- Senior GNC EngineerReflect Orbital
- Senior Mission Operations EngineerReflect Orbital
Employers hiring most in Hawthorne
- SpaceX450 open roles
- Amazon24 open roles
- Reflect Orbital10 open roles
- Critical Energy5 open roles
- Chaos Industries4 open roles
- OSI Systems4 open roles
- Space Exploration Technologies4 open roles
- VAST Data4 open roles
- ThinKom Solutions3 open roles
- Jobot2 open roles
Largest employers headquartered in Hawthorne
- SpaceXabout 22,000 employees (2026)
- OSI Systems5,001–20,000 employees
Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.
Hawthorne layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Hawthorne in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Hawthorne. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board
City: Los Angeles
- Foothill Workforce Development Board
Cities: Arcadia, Duarte, Monrovia, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, South Pasadena
- Innovation Network
Cities: Long Beach, Signal Hill
- Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board
Los Angeles
- SELACO WDB Southeast Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board
Cities: Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Downey, Lakewood, Norwalk
- South Bay Workforce Development Board
Cities: Alondra Park, Carson, Del Aire, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance
- Verdugo Workforce Development Board
Cities: Burbank, Glendale, La Canada Flintridge
Los Angeles County economy
4.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
6.2% the month before
4,990,443
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
9,848,406
people in Los Angeles County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$87,760
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles5,015 jobs
- El Segundo940 jobs
- Long Beach892 jobs
- Torrance718 jobs
- Santa Monica303 jobs
- Pasadena271 jobs
- Glendale184 jobs
- Burbank159 jobs
- Beverly Hills146 jobs
- Redondo Beach124 jobs
- Palmdale118 jobs
- Carson78 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from California’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.