Software Engineer, Flight Reliability

SpaceX

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Starbase, TXHawthorne, CARedmond, WABrownsville, TX
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54 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 · Software Engineer, Flight Reliability

The Software Engineer (Flight Reliability) joins the Flight Reliability software team to develop mission critical applications that accelerate launch vehicle production and flight while supporting Starlink growth. You will have full ownership of software engineering and product development, creating new applications to improve operations and building prototypes to prove design concepts and quantify technical constraints. You will deep dive into user problems to create efficient solutions while collaborating on architecture, design, and code reviews. The role requires full stack development experience using languages like Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, or Java. Technical skills include building single page web applications with Angular or React, using Docker, and managing databases like PostgreSQL or SQL Server. You will also utilize version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts.

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What you'll do

  • Develop highly reliable software solutions for use across SpaceX operations.
  • Create new applications to improve internal SpaceX operational processes.
  • Build prototypes to prove design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
  • Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
  • Analyze user problems to design and create efficient technical solutions.
  • Participate in team collaborations on software architecture, design, and code reviews.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline, or 2+ years of professional software experience.
  • 1+ years of experience in full stack development.
  • Programming experience in Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, Java, or similar object-oriented languages (preferred).
  • 1+ years of rigorous experience building single page web applications (preferred).
  • Experience with version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts (preferred).
  • Expertise in designing software systems and profiling/improving application performance (preferred).
  • Experience designing and deploying agentic AI systems, including LLM prompting, context retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring (preferred).
  • U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required Department of State authorizations.

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