Base Salary
$125k - $145k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop autonomous software systems and testing for resilience, fault tolerance, and correctness
- Design software for space vehicles and supporting ground systems
- Build prototypes and analyze system metrics to validate designs and quantify technical constraints
- Own software design, development, testing, release, and flight operations
- Provide 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 in 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
- Experience with debugging, performance optimization, performance testing, and cross-context test design is preferred
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, take initiative, communicate effectively, and adapt to changing requirements
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan and other discounts and perks
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Washington employees accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law
- Company shuttles operate Monday through Friday between select Seattle locations and 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.