Gateway Site Development Engineer
SpaceX
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This role pays less than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$204,762 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $114k versus about $175k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
SpaceX currently has 680 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 442 roles with salary data.
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As an Infrastructure Engineer on the Starlink team, you will design antenna sites and site hardware to power and connect antennas that backhaul the global network. Your daily responsibilities include developing infrastructure development plans with international partners, creating new processes for rapid deployment, and reviewing site reliability to ensure system health. You will manage complex projects involving electrical, mechanical, or structural design while collaborating cross-functionally with business growth, regulatory, and network engineering teams. The role requires technical proficiency in areas such as construction drawings, physical network infrastructure planning, and potentially using tools like SQL, Matlab, Python, C++, Tableau, or PowerBI for analytical modeling. You will solve critical problems regarding the deployment of hardware to expand customer access and improve performance for a large satellite constellation providing global internet connectivity.
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