Data Engineer

SpaceX

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Starbase, TXHawthorne, CABrownsville, TX
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148 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Data Engineer

The Data Engineer (Starship) joins the Data and Operations Engineering team within the Starship Supply Chain group. This role involves owning the entire lifecycle of automations, applications, and data pipelines to support planning, procurement, supplier development, quality, material flow, and inventory. The engineer will query, clean, and transform data to inform supply chain operations while developing and standardizing key process indicators and operational metrics. Required skills include experience in data engineering, data science, or software engineering using SQL, relational databases, and ETL processes. Preferred technical proficiencies include Python, C#, UNIX-like operating systems, and data orchestration tools like Airflow, Prefect, or dbt. Candidates should also possess experience with Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, and visualization tools like Power BI, Grafana, Metabase, or Tableau.

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What you'll do

  • Own the entire lifecycle of automations, applications, and data pipelines from ideation to monitoring.
  • Query, clean, and transform data to provide actionable insights for all levels of the supply chain.
  • Develop, standardize, and continuously improve key process indicators and operational metrics.
  • Build and maintain ETL processes and data orchestration workflows.
  • Design and develop web apps, dashboards, and self-service platforms for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with central software teams to define project requirements, roadmaps, and implementation details.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software or data pipelines.
  • 1+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, full stack development, or software engineering via projects, research, internships, and/or professional experience.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.
  • Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed to meet major milestones.
  • Must be able to travel up to 10% of the work week to other sites.
  • Must be able to work onsite at Starbase, TX.
  • Experience managing UNIX-like operating systems via the command line (preferred).
  • Strong proficiency with SQL and experience designing and querying relational databases (preferred).

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