Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop reliable autonomous software systems and testing for resilience, fault tolerance, and correctness.
- Design software for spacecraft vehicles and supporting ground systems.
- Build prototypes and analyze system metrics to validate designs and quantify technical constraints.
- Own software development from design and testing through release and flight operations.
- Provide technical leadership and drive continuous improvement.
- Work extended hours and weekends when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or another STEM discipline, or 2+ years of software development experience.
- Development experience in C/C++, Python, or similar programming languages.
- Preferred experience with fault-tolerant, distributed, or real-time systems.
- Preferred cross-context test design experience, including unit, hardware-in-the-loop regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
- Preferred knowledge of computer architecture, networks, physics, mathematics, electronics, Linux programming, debugging, performance optimization, and performance testing.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, take initiative, adapt to changing requirements, and communicate effectively.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Washington employees accrue paid sick time in accordance with state and federal law.
- Company shuttles provide weekday roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
- Employees may be eligible for company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; compensation figures are excluded here.
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.