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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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Join the Starlink program as a Senior Embedded Software Engineer and contribute to solving complex challenges in spacecraft operations. You will work on bringing up next-generation space-grade silicon, including custom-designed system-on-chip devices and peripherals, from prototype to operational stages. Your daily tasks include developing software for boot loaders and business logic with an emphasis on creating secure, deterministic, and high-performance platforms for SpaceX’s Linux-based spacecraft and ground components. Additionally, you will build infrastructure and tools that enable rapid development and testing of new features across the OS/platform ecosystem. This role requires expertise in C, C++, Python, or Rust, along with experience in Linux kernel development, networking stacks, computer architecture, and secure boot flows for ARM embedded systems. Ideal candidates have a background in computer science, engineering, math, or a related STEM field, coupled with extensive software development experience.
Linux
C
Python
Go
Rust
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
Performance Testing
Debugging
Computer Architecture
Networks
Physics
MATH
Electronics
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD