21 days ago
Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, tools, processes, and custom software to assess Starlink Mobile growth areas.
- Automate metric aggregation and detection of widespread application issues.
- Establish relationships with third-party application and content owners.
- Lead technical investigations into chronic application-level issues.
- Build ground-based software systems that ingest, transform, and store data.
- Apply analytics, models, and techniques to data products created by space vehicles.
- Create catalogs of data and tools for analytics.
- Fuse data from multiple sources into usable information.
- Work with operators, engineering leaders, subsystem engineers, software engineers, network engineers, and external partners.
- Work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or another STEM discipline.
- At least 1 year of data or software engineering experience; internship experience is applicable.
- Experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning.
- Preferred experience handling TB+ datasets.
- Preferred experience with SQL and an object-oriented language such as C, C++, or Python.
- Preferred experience with Parquet or similar storage formats, Kubernetes, in-stream processing, custom ETL, and data-analysis tools.
- Preferred experience building predictive models and machine learning pipelines for clustering, prediction, or anomaly detection.
- Preferred experience using Spark, Presto, Flink, or Snowflake.
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements.
- Ability to take initiative and develop new expertise.
- Must satisfy SpaceX ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $125,000.00-$165,000.00 for Level 1 and $145,000.00-$200,000.00 for Level 2, with actual level and salary determined case by case.
- Potential long-term incentives, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and employee stock purchase plan participation.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays; Washington employees accrue paid sick time.
- Company shuttles operate Monday through Friday from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
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.