Software Engineer, Beam Planning
SpaceX
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This role pays more than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $137,500–$197,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $198k versus about $168k for comparable roles.
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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 720 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 511 roles with salary data.
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Sr. Software Engineer, Beam Planning (Starlink) joins the Starlink program as a member of the software and network engineering team. In this role, you will develop highly reliable, real-time software to determine which user, laser, and gateway beams should be formed for a low-latency, high-bandwidth satellite-based global network. You will manage the full software lifecycle, including development, testing, and support, while leading architecture reviews and building tools for data analysis, visualization, and test execution across virtualized and hardware-in-the-loop environments. The role requires proficiency in assembly, C, or C++. Preferred qualifications include experience with real-time rendering, game engine development, physics simulation, network topology, numerical optimization, graph theoretic approaches, and convex optimization. You will solve complex problems to optimize the utility of a large laser mesh network in orbit for global internet connectivity.
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