Full-Stack Data Scientist, Hardware Reliability

SpaceX

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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 · Full-Stack Data Scientist, Hardware Reliability

Full-Stack Data Scientist, Hardware Reliability (Starlink) joins the Starlink Reliability team to enhance the reliability of customer hardware including dishes, routers, power supplies, and cables. The role involves building data pipelines, infrastructure, and production scoring systems using telemetry, manufacturing, inventory, field-return, and unstructured support data like tickets and images. You will design feature sets, train and validate models for failure prediction, and develop LLM-backed tools featuring retrieval, tool calling, and agentic workflows. Key responsibilities include maintaining internal analytics tools, APIs, and applications while collaborating across engineering and supply chain teams to implement design changes. Required skills include proficiency in Python and SQL, experience with production data pipelines, and machine learning deployment. Preferred expertise includes RAG, survival analysis, and large-scale data processing to solve hardware reliability challenges within the satellite constellation infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure to improve Starlink hardware reliability.
  • Design and manage feature engineering, labeling, and scoring for training and serving reliability models.
  • Train, validate, and iterate on machine learning models to predict hardware failures in production and the field.
  • Deploy and monitor production models including versioning and scheduled scoring jobs.
  • Develop internal analytics tools, APIs, and applications for manufacturing, supply chain, and customer experience teams.
  • Build LLM-backed tools featuring retrieval, tool calling, and agentic workflows for engineers and operators.
  • Extract actionable signals from unstructured data such as support tickets, chat logs, and images.
  • Contribute to core internal and customer-facing software repositories.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, electrical engineering, or another STEM discipline.
  • 4+ years of professional experience in data science, machine learning, or software engineering.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Experience building production data pipelines and deploying machine learning models in production.
  • Master's degree in a STEM field or a PhD with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, system design, and concurrency.
  • Experience with large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, and agentic workflows.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.

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