Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain flight code-generation tooling for flight software and GNC engineers.
- Maintain core flight software features shared across satellite products.
- Identify and resolve slow or error-prone aspects of embedded software development.
- Create tools and processes that enable fast, accurate, and easy-to-use development and operational systems.
- Work with ground software teams to simplify constellation operations through changes to flight systems.
- Own the full software lifecycle from conception through testing and maintenance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or another STEM discipline, or 2+ years of software development experience.
- Development experience in C/C++, Python, or similar programming languages.
- Knowledge of Bazel, C++, Python, and Bash is preferred.
- Experience improving performance bottlenecks in build systems and embedded environments is preferred.
- Experience designing user interfaces for software engineers is preferred.
- Experience with fault-tolerant, distributed, or real-time embedded systems is preferred.
- Experience with version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery systems is preferred.
- Ability to work effectively in a changing environment, communicate across teams, and work independently or collaboratively.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required authorizations.
Benefits
- 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 are available Monday through Friday for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
- Eligibility for long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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.