3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a Linux-based operating system for the supercomputer network fabric and Starlink laser mesh.
- Develop and optimize high-performance device drivers for network and compute hardware.
- Deploy, operate, debug, and root-cause anomalies in the production platform.
- Improve observability and configuration-management tools.
- Collaborate with hardware teams and external partners to design and bring up next-generation supercomputer hardware and software.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a science discipline, or 2+ years of professional software-development experience in lieu of a degree; internship experience is applicable.
- Hands-on systems-programming experience in C or C++.
- Deep knowledge of the Linux kernel and networking stack or experience with another production-grade kernel.
- Proficiency with kernel, network, and userspace debugging tools such as ftrace, perf, Wireshark/tcpdump, eBPF, and gdb.
- Experience bringing up new hardware, including flashing bare-metal software on a microcontroller with JTAG or bootstrapping a Linux kernel and rootfs.
- Experience developing and optimizing device or peripheral drivers, ideally for high-speed interfaces or systems involving DMA and cache coherency.
- Understanding of Ethernet, PCIe, I2C, and SPI, including the ability to review schematics and debug interfaces.
- Experience with product security, OS or system hardening, and secure-boot schemes.
Benefits
- Base salary is listed at $125,000-$165,000 for Level 1 and $145,000-$200,000 for Level 2.
- Potential long-term incentives, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays annually; Washington employees accrue paid sick time.
- Company shuttles provide weekday roundtrip transportation from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches orbital rockets and spacecraft, and operates Starlink, a global satellite internet network for consumers, businesses, and governments. Its revenue comes from commercial and government launch services (Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy, Dragon cargo and crew to the ISS) and subscription broadband with Starlink hardware and service. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the privately held company serves NASA and commercial satellite operators, building most systems in-house.