As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 478 open civilian postings across the Department of the Air Force that allow either remote work or telework. Commands and units posting them: 35. Fully remote among them: 0. Posted in the last 30 days: 420. Those figures are a count, not an estimate: every day we pull the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API, keep the ones that allow remote work or telework, and tag each by the department and the hiring organization that posted it. The numbers refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. Read them with one caution in mind. Air Force civilian work is tied to bases, depots, laboratories and program offices, so telework-eligible postings with a fixed duty station are the usual case, and fully remote postings are the exception, when they appear at all. The split below shows how many, if any, are fully remote today.
What the Department of the Air Force is
The Department of the Air Force is one of the three military departments inside the Department of Defense, and it covers two armed services: the Air Force and the Space Force. Both are staffed by a mix of uniformed members and federal civilians, and the civilians are the people this page is about. They are hired through USAJOBS under ordinary federal appointments, and they are not enlisting in anything. Civilians run much of the department’s engineering, acquisition, logistics, finance, IT, human resources, contracting, medical support and installation management, and their jobs appear on USAJOBS under the name of whichever command, center or unit is doing the hiring.
That matters for searching. There is no single “Air Force” employer on USAJOBS; a research laboratory, a base personnel office and a Space Force field command are three different hiring organizations. Our department scope gathers every one of them, so the counts on this page are the whole department, not one command.
Fully remote or telework eligible across the department
Two tiers decide where you can live. A posting is fully remote when the hiring organization marks it remote on USAJOBS, so the work can be done from an approved location anywhere in the country. A posting is telework eligible when it carries a specific duty station and allows some of the week from home. We never merge the two, because the difference is whether you must live near a particular base. Here is today’s split across every Department of the Air Force posting we hold:
If the fully remote count reads zero, that is not an error in our data; it is the department’s current posting pattern. Air Force civilian work tends to touch controlled information, physical equipment or the people on an installation, and a duty station with telework is the arrangement that fits. If the count reads a small number, treat those postings as the exception they are and apply inside the window. The remote vs. telework guide explains what a telework agreement does and does not promise.
Which commands and units post them
The hiring organizations with the most open Department of the Air Force postings in our inventory right now are:
- Headquarters, Air Force Reserve Command 69 listings
- Air National Guard Units 66 listings
- Air Force Materiel Command 60 listings
- Department of the Air Force Headquarters 36 listings
- Air Education and Training Command 33 listings
- Air Combat Command 27 listings
- Air Mobility Command 23 listings
- United States Space Force 17 listings
- Air National Guard 14 listings
- HQ USAF and Support Elements 13 listings
Each name links to its hub, which lists that organization’s open postings with their tier, pay and closing date. The names are the ones USAJOBS uses, and they mix major commands, centers and Guard or Reserve units. Air Force Materiel Command, which researches, buys, tests and sustains the service’s aircraft and systems, has its own guide because its workforce is so heavily civilian. Guard and Reserve units are a different case, covered below. The list shifts as announcements open and close.
What kinds of work the department posts
The occupational categories with the most open Department of the Air Force postings in our inventory right now are:
- Miscellaneous Administration and Program 65 listings
- Management and Program Analysis 28 listings
- Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant 25 listings
- Security Administration 21 listings
- Human Resources Management 20 listings
- Information Technology Management 19 listings
- General Engineering 15 listings
- Social Science 14 listings
Each category links to its hub, which shows the same occupation across every agency we track. The families to expect, whether or not they are on today’s list, are the ones a large technical organization needs: engineers, IT specialists, contract specialists, logistics management specialists, program analysts, budget analysts, human resources specialists, and administrative support. The department is not only for engineers, so check across categories.
What they pay
Advertised pay on Department of the Air Force postings we hold currently runs from $31,305 to $228,000 a year, with a typical figure of $104,250. The GS grades advertised span 3–15.
A word on “typical.” A federal announcement advertises a pay range, not a single salary, so for each posting we take the midpoint of its advertised range; the typical figure is the median of those midpoints across every department posting in the inventory. Hourly rates are converted to annual pay at 2,087 hours, the standard federal work year. The low and high ends are the edges advertised on any posting, not what most applicants are offered. Postings that publish no usable pay figure are left out of all three numbers.
One department-specific note: some Air Force organizations, particularly in acquisition and laboratory work, pay under Department of Defense demonstration pay systems that use broad pay bands instead of GS grades. Those postings carry a pay range but no GS grade, so the grade range above counts only postings on the GS ladder, and the GS pay scale guide applies to those alone.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 420 department postings. In the last 7 days: 283. Most recent posting date: Oct 6, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace. Some Air Force announcements are open-continuous, staying in the inventory for months, while others are open for a short window to fill one vacancy, so the pace figure and the total can move independently. A closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh.
Guard and Reserve technician roles
A share of the department’s civilian postings come from Air National Guard units and the Air Force Reserve, and some of those are technician positions that work differently from an ordinary civilian job. Dual status technicians in the Guard and Air Reserve Technicians in the Reserve are federal civilian employees who must also hold military membership in the unit as a condition of employment, so the announcement will state a military grade range and a requirement to join or remain in the unit. If you do not intend to become a member, those postings are not for you. Other Guard and Reserve postings are ordinary civilian appointments with no membership requirement; the announcement says which, so read “Conditions of employment” before the duties. The National Guard guide covers how Guard hiring is organized and what to check on those announcements.
What to check before applying
Security clearance requirements are common across the department because so much of the work involves controlled or classified defense information. The level varies by role, from none for some administrative positions to a substantial investigation for others, and it is always stated in the announcement, so do not self-select out on a general assumption. Confirm the tier and the duty station on every posting: the department has installations in many states and overseas, and the duty station decides how close you need to live, your telework terms and your locality pay. Finally, read the “This job is open to” section, because some announcements are open to the public and others only to current federal employees, veterans or specific groups. The federal resume guide and the application timeline guide cover the application itself.
How to search for these
Start with the command and unit hubs linked in the list above, each of which shows that organization’s open postings with their tier, advertised pay and closing date, refreshed daily from USAJOBS. If fully remote is non-negotiable, the fully remote list is the complete set across every agency; if a Department of the Air Force posting is on it, it will be there. If you can live near an Air Force or Space Force installation, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out.
On USAJOBS itself, use the agency filter and choose Department of the Air Force, then add the remote or telework filters as you need them. Every listing on our site links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply, and where the clearance, pay system and any military membership requirement are spelled out. Starting out? The entry-level listings page gathers federal postings at GS-7 and below.