Base Salary
$160k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop modular, reusable test and automation software in Python and similar languages for manufacturing and engineering design verification.
- Create automation software that interacts with flight hardware, test equipment, instrumentation, and production documentation systems.
- Enable test execution across hardware-in-the-loop and virtualized hardware simulation environments.
- Develop automation solutions using embedded electronics and custom hardware for engineering and manufacturing challenges.
- Build algorithms to analyze test data and determine whether components meet acceptance criteria.
- Maintain and troubleshoot automation infrastructure, identify root causes, and coordinate corrections with partner teams.
- Define project plans, manage milestones, and conduct reviews to deliver reliable test systems to production.
- Create tools that support frequent software deployment, test execution, and data analysis within continuous integration and release systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or another STEM discipline.
- At least five years of software development experience in C, C++, Python, or full-stack software development.
- Extensive knowledge of Linux and Windows, configuration management, version control, continuous integration, and monitoring.
- Experience automating manufacturing and engineering tests, troubleshooting software-hardware interactions, and improving manufacturing yields and production time.
- Experience with control feedback loops, numerical analysis, signal processing, digital and analog interfaces, embedded hardware product development, and real-world software deployments.
- Preferred experience with spacecraft fluid systems, high-power electrical systems, RF systems, modems, diagnostic test equipment, networks, electronics, optics, math, and physics.
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes and strong troubleshooting, debugging, performance optimization, and unit-testing skills.
- Ability and willingness to obtain a Top-Secret clearance.
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements and be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $160,000-$220,000 per year, plus potential long-term incentives, bonuses, and employee stock purchase plan benefits.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Applicants must be eligible to satisfy ITAR requirements, and the role may require obtaining a Top-Secret clearance.
- Active-clearance employees briefed into a classified program may receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed; sensitive-program assignments may involve pre-employment and random drug and alcohol testing.
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.