Base Salary
$125k - $145k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable autonomous software and comprehensive testing for resilience, fault tolerance, and correctness.
- Design software for vehicles flying in space and the ground systems supporting them.
- Build prototypes and analyze system metrics to validate designs and quantify technical constraints.
- Own software design, testing, release, and flight operations throughout the complete lifecycle.
- Provide strong technical leadership and drive continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or another STEM discipline, or two or more years of software development experience.
- Development experience with C, C++, Python, or similar programming languages.
- Experience with fault-tolerant, distributed, or real-time systems is preferred.
- Knowledge of computer architecture, networks, physics, math, electronics, and Linux programming is preferred.
- Strong debugging, performance optimization, performance testing, and cross-context test design skills are preferred.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable ITAR citizenship, residency, refugee, asylee, or authorization requirements.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed.
Benefits
- Long-term incentives may include company stock or long-term cash awards and potential discretionary bonuses.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Paid parental leave, employee discounts, and other perks.
- Three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Washington State employees accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law.
- Company shuttles provide weekday roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
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.