3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the Linux-based operating system supporting the supercomputer network fabric and Starlink laser mesh.
- Develop and optimize high-performance device and peripheral drivers for network and compute hardware.
- Deploy, operate, debug, and improve the platform in production, including root-causing anomalies and reliability issues.
- Develop observability and configuration-management tools.
- Collaborate with hardware teams and external partners to design new hardware and bring up its OS and software stack.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or science, or 2+ years of professional software-development experience in lieu of a degree; internship experience is applicable.
- Hands-on system programming experience in C or C++.
- Preferred: deep knowledge of the Linux kernel and networking stack or another production-grade kernel.
- Preferred: proficiency with ftrace, perf, Wireshark/tcpdump, eBPF, gdb, and other kernel, network, and userspace debugging tools.
- Preferred: experience bringing up new hardware, flashing bare-metal software on a microcontroller with JTAG, or bootstrapping a Linux kernel and rootfs.
- Preferred: experience developing and optimizing device or peripheral drivers, including high-speed interfaces, DMA, and cache coherency.
- Preferred: understanding of Ethernet, PCIe, I2C, and SPI; ability to review schematics and debug these interfaces.
- Preferred: experience with product security, OS/system hardening, and secure boot schemes.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility or obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary ranges from $125,000 to $165,000 for Level 1 and from $145,000 to $200,000 for Level 2.
- Potential long-term incentives, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays; Washington employees accrue paid sick time.
- Company shuttles are offered Monday through Friday from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
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.