As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 60 open Air Force Materiel Command postings that are fully remote or telework eligible, spread across 24 occupational categories, with 22 posted in the last 30 days. 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 hiring agency. If AFMC keeps appearing in your search results and you are not sure what it is, this page explains the organization, shows what its remote and telework-eligible postings look like today, and sets out what to check before you apply. The numbers refresh with each daily rebuild.
What AFMC does
Air Force Materiel Command is the Air Force command responsible for research, development, testing, acquisition, and sustainment of the service’s weapons systems and technology across their full life cycle: from early research, through buying and fielding equipment, to maintaining and upgrading systems already in service. It runs the Air Force’s research laboratory, its test centers, its acquisition program offices, and the depots that overhaul aircraft and engines. Its workforce is heavily civilian and built around engineering, acquisition, logistics, IT, finance, and program management rather than flying missions. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, AFMC has centers and installations across several states, and the duty station on an announcement tells you which one a job belongs to.
Why AFMC posts remote and telework-eligible work
Much of AFMC’s mission is analytical, technical, and program-management work: engineering analysis, systems acquisition, contract administration, software development, test coordination, cost estimating, and logistics planning. That work is done at a desk, in documents, and in meetings, which makes it more portable than operational military roles, and it is the reason AFMC shows up in our inventory with telework-eligible postings and, from time to time, fully remote ones. Two tiers decide where you can live. A posting is fully remote when the command marks it remote on USAJOBS, so the work can be done from an approved location anywhere. A posting is telework eligible when it carries a specific duty station and allows some of the week to be worked from home. We never blur the two. Here is today’s split across every AFMC posting we hold:
Program offices, labs, and depots are physical places, and much of the work touches controlled information that must be handled on site, so a duty station with telework is the natural arrangement for a lot of it. If you can live near an AFMC installation, that tier is your market. If you need fully remote work, the share above tells you how much of AFMC’s current inventory fits, and the remote vs. telework guide explains what a telework agreement actually commits an agency to.
What kinds of work AFMC posts
The occupational categories with the most open AFMC postings in our inventory right now are:
- General Business and Industry 8 listings
- Community Planning 7 listings
- Miscellaneous Administration and Program 7 listings
- Attorney 5 listings
- Financial Administration and Program 4 listings
- General Engineering 4 listings
Read the list as a map of the command’s hiring, not a fixed ranking; it shifts as announcements open and close. Each category links to its hub, which shows the same occupation across every agency we track, so you can compare AFMC’s openings with the rest of government. The occupations the mission suggests are the ones to look for across the hub, whether or not they are on today’s list: engineers of several disciplines, contract specialists and contracting officers (see the contracting career field guide), logistics management specialists, program and management analysts, IT specialists (see the IT and cybersecurity guide), and financial and cost analysts supporting acquisition programs. AFMC is not only for engineers. Contracting, logistics, program analysis, IT, finance, and administrative support are all substantial parts of the workforce, so check across categories rather than assuming the command only wants technical degrees.
What they pay
Advertised pay on AFMC postings we hold currently runs from $42,253 to $197,200 a year, with a typical figure of $118,182. The GS grades advertised span 7–12.
The “typical” figure is the median of posting midpoints: a federal announcement advertises a pay range rather than a single salary, often across several grades, so for each posting we take the midpoint of its range and report the median across the command’s postings. The low and high ends are the lowest and highest bounds advertised on any single posting, so they describe the edges of the market, not what most applicants are offered. Postings with no usable pay figure are left out of all three numbers. One AFMC-specific note: some of its acquisition and laboratory positions are paid 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 the GS postings, and the GS pay scale guide applies to those alone. For a banded position, the announcement’s pay range is the figure to read.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 22 AFMC postings. In the last 7 days: 12. Most recent AFMC posting date: Oct 5, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page to see how much of the current pool arrived in the past month. Some federal announcements are open-continuous, staying in the inventory for months and collecting applications on a rolling basis, while others are open for a short window to fill a specific vacancy, so the pace figure and the total can move independently. A closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh. Check the AFMC hub every few days, newest first.
What to check before applying
Security clearance requirements are common at AFMC because so much of the work involves controlled or classified defense information. The level required varies by role, from none for some administrative and support positions to a substantial investigation for others, and it is always stated in the individual announcement, so do not self-select out on a general assumption. Acquisition positions are also covered by the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act, which means the announcement may require, or expect you to earn within a set period, an acquisition certification at a stated level; the announcement says which.
Confirm the tier and the duty station on every posting. AFMC has installations in several states, and the applicable duty station affects your telework terms, your required proximity, and your locality pay. A telework-eligible posting at one center is a different job, in practical terms, from the same title at another, and fully remote employees are generally paid on the locality table for where they live. Finally, read the “This job is open to” section: some AFMC announcements are open to the public, others only to current federal employees or specific groups, and the hiring path determines how your application is evaluated. The federal resume guide and the application timeline guide cover the application itself.
How to search for these
Start at the AFMC hub, which lists every open AFMC posting we hold with its tier, category, and advertised pay, refreshed daily from USAJOBS. If you need fully remote work, read the fully remote list; it is the complete set of fully remote postings in our inventory, and the AFMC ones are a part of it. If you can live near an AFMC installation, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out. The category hubs linked in the list above show each occupation across all agencies, and every listing on the site links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply.