2 months ago
Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX.
- Create applications that improve SpaceX operations.
- Build prototypes to validate design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
- Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
- Analyze user problems and create efficient solutions.
- Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Work extended hours or weekends when required by launch cadence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline, or 2+ years of professional software-building experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 1 year of full-stack development experience.
- Preferred experience with Python, C#/.NET, Go, Scala, Java, or a similar object-oriented language.
- Preferred 1+ year of rigorous single-page web application development experience.
- Preferred expertise in software system design, application profiling, and performance improvement.
- Preferred experience designing and deploying agentic AI systems, including LLM prompting, context retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Preferred production experience with Docker.
- Preferred frontend experience with Angular, React, or a similar JavaScript framework.
- Preferred database experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar database technologies.
- Must meet applicable ITAR authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Fully onsite role; remote and hybrid work are not considered.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid parental leave.
- Potential long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, employee stock purchase plan access, and other discounts and perks.
- Approximately 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Washington State paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law.
- Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday through Friday.
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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.