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Sr. Wireless Software Engineer (Starlink)
Designs and maintains wireless software for Starlink’s satellite internet system, including firmware, signal processing, and networking algorithms on custom hardware.
Sr. Software Engineer (Starfall)
Designs and implements software/firmware for SpaceX's next-gen avionics systems, troubleshooting and validating flight hardware/software to ensure reliable launches.
Sr. Software Engineer, Telemetry (Starlink)
Design and operate a petabyte-scale telemetry platform for Starlink’s satellite internet system, ensuring reliable data ingestion, processing, and querying to improve global broadband service.
Sr. Software Engineer, CDN (Starlink)
Designs, builds, and scales a CDN for Starlink’s satellite broadband system, focusing on distributed systems, traffic optimization, and real-time diagnostics to support global internet access.
Sr. Software Engineer (Starshield)
Build and maintain secure, reliable software for SpaceX’s Starshield satellite constellation, including in-space mesh networks and ground systems using C++/Python on Linux.
Sr. RAN Software Engineer (Starlink Mobile)
Lead validation and optimization of the 4G/5G RAN software protocol stack for SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile network, building test automation and debugging cellular connectivity issues.
Sr. DSP Systems Engineer (Silicon Engineering)
Senior DSP systems engineer on SpaceX's Starlink silicon team in Irvine, CA, developing next-generation ASICs for satellite broadband and RF sensing. Day to day: modeling and testing DSP, beamforming, and MIMO algorithms (MATLAB, C/C++, Python) and collaborating with ASIC/FPGA, RF, and software teams through silicon bring-up and system validation.
Sr. Software Engineer
Build mission-critical software for SpaceX’s launch vehicles, Starlink, and manufacturing systems using full-stack development and modern tooling.
Sr. Wi-Fi Software Engineer (Starlink)
Senior Wi-Fi software engineer on Starlink, driving the Wi-Fi software roadmap, optimizing kernel-level networking performance, and improving mesh — primarily in C/C++ on embedded Linux networking equipment.
Sr. Wi-Fi Software Engineer (Starlink)
Sr. Wi-Fi Software Engineer on Starlink, driving the Wi-Fi software roadmap, optimizing kernel-level performance, improving mesh networking, and building CI/deployment tools using C/C++ on embedded networking equipment.
Sr. Software Engineer, HITL - Top Secret Clearance
Senior Software Engineer designing and building full-stack HITL/HOOTL testing and simulation software for SpaceX flight systems, using Python/C++/Java with CI/CD pipelines and web frontend technologies.
Sr. Security Software Engineer (Starlink)
Senior security software engineer on SpaceX's Starlink team, designing and building security infrastructure for the satellite internet system — cryptographic services, security features for routers, dishes, gateways, and satellites, and factory/network security. Work spans applied cryptography, network, and OS security using languages like Python, C++, or Go.
Sr. Simulation Software Engineer (Vehicle Engineering)
Senior engineer on SpaceX's Simulations team building and maintaining the in-house high-fidelity, real-time simulation software used across Falcon, Dragon, Starlink, and Starship. Day to day you program core C++ simulation infrastructure, model fluids/electronics/multi-body physics, and improve performance and reliability for flight programs.
Sr. Software Engineer, C++ (Simulations)
Design, develop, and test SpaceX's in-house high-fidelity real-time simulation software supporting Falcon, Dragon, Starlink, and Starship flight systems. Day-to-day work centers on C++ simulation infrastructure and building models of fluids, electronics, and multi-body physics with engineering teams.
Sr. High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer
SpaceX is hiring a Senior HPC Systems Engineer in Hawthorne, CA to administer and support Linux-based HPC clusters, storage, and high-speed networks for engineering teams. Core stack includes Linux, cluster resource managers (Slurm/PBS/LSF), GPUs/CUDA, containers, config management (Puppet/Ansible), and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana).
Sr. HPC Systems Engineer (High Performance Computing)
A senior systems engineer on SpaceX's HPC team who administers Linux-based high-performance compute clusters, storage systems, and high-speed networks, supports engineers' scientific workloads, and automates operations with tools like Slurm, Ansible, Prometheus, and containers.
Sr. Software Engineer (Components)
Senior software engineer on SpaceX's Components Engineering team building test automation, factory automation, hardware drivers, web interfaces, and firmware (primarily in Python/C) for testing and manufacturing rocket components like valves, avionics, and actuators for Starship, Raptor, Dragon, and Falcon.
Sr. Software Engineer, Additive Manufacturing (Raptor)
Senior engineer building the core software — controls, data acquisition, build logic, infrastructure, and in-situ monitoring — that operates SpaceX's metal 3D printing systems producing Raptor rocket engine hardware. Day-to-day is production-grade C++ on Linux with CI/CD, working alongside controls, manufacturing, and engine design engineers.
Sr. RF Silicon Software Engineer (RFIC Engineering)
Brings up SpaceX's custom RF silicon for Starlink satellites, ground gateways, and user terminals: writes low-level C/C++/Python driver libraries, builds hardware-in-the-loop test platforms with automated regression tests, and supports flight software integration. Works at the hardware/embedded software boundary of a high-performance wireless comms system.
Sr. Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)
Senior engineer who designs, deploys, and operates GPU/AI infrastructure for SpaceX's Starshield national-security satellite constellation — scaling Kubernetes-based AI clusters (100k+ GPUs) in Top Secret data centers, automating on-prem compute with Terraform/Ansible, and developing in Python, Go, or C++ on Linux.