Data Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CABastrop, TX
Salary: $125,000–$150,000 / yr
Posted: 110 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

SpaceX currently has 851 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Data Engineer

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Data Engineer (Starlink) As a Data Engineer on the Starlink Enterprise team, you will improve data hygiene and quality across commercial go-to-market systems. You will build integrations and AI agents to transform messy inputs into actionable insights, reducing manual cleanup for sales, channel, and reseller operations. Your daily work involves identifying duplicate or stale records, implementing validation and enrichment, and developing Model Context Protocol servers to connect AI assistants like Grok to internal systems. You will design and iterate on AI agents that power workflows, instrumenting data quality with monitoring loops. The role requires proficiency in Python, SQL, and modern data tooling. You will solve technical problems related to data consistency across heterogeneous systems, ensuring reliable lead-to-revenue cycles and high-quality outputs for analytics and enterprise enablement.

What does a Data Engineer earn in California?

Median $187700 from 41 postings across 21 companies.

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Skills

Python SQL Data Engineering AI Agents LLM Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs Webhooks CRM Data Quality Integrations Automation Grok HubSpot Clay Apollo

What you'll do

Improve data hygiene by identifying and remediating bad, missing, or duplicate records across go-to-market systems.
Build integrations between internal tools and external systems to ensure clean data flow and reduce manual re-entry.
Develop Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to connect AI assistants to internal and external go-to-market systems.
Design, ship, and iterate on AI agents that power Starlink Enterprise go-to-market workflows.
Contribute to AI-powered applications and automations that accelerate lead-to-revenue cycles.
Instrument data quality and agent performance with monitoring systems and feedback loops to catch regressions early.
Create reusable tools, checks, and documentation to help the team maintain data quality and extend agents.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or another STEM discipline.
1+ years of professional data engineering or software engineering experience, including internships.
1+ years of development experience in Python or another modern programming language like SQL.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
Experience improving CRM data quality, including deduping, enrichment, and validation rules (preferred).
Experience building AI agents, LLM-powered applications, or tool-using assistants integrated with business systems (preferred).
Experience designing APIs, webhooks, or integration layers for heterogeneous systems (preferred).
Experience with SQL, modern data tooling, and LLM developer tools like Grok (preferred).

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