Base Salary
$125k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable and performant GNC algorithms, flight software, simulations, tools, and services using C++ or Python.
- Conduct analyses, recommend designs, and write GNC software that balances competing requirements.
- Build software tools and construct scenarios to analyze system performance.
- Write high-quality technical documentation of programs, algorithms, or analysis.
- Develop software models of the operation and performance of various payloads.
- Support your relevant on-call operations rotation, keeping ground and vehicle software continuously operating at peak performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, computer science/software engineering, or an engineering discipline.
- Software development experience in C++ or Python.
- Master's degree or PhD in physics or an engineering discipline is preferred.
- Experience in verifying GNC algorithm performance via simulation and validation of the simulation's models is preferred.
- Experience simulating satellite payload performance is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in developing state estimation algorithms or optimization is preferred.
- Experience with RF is preferred.
- Linux development experience is preferred.
- Capable of identifying and solving complex problems with little to no supervision or direction.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding start-up atmosphere.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Active TS/SCI clearance or the ability to obtain and maintain one.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
- Paid parental leave and various other discounts and perks.
- Accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy.
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.