Senior Software Engineer, High Performance Computing
SpaceX
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This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $142,500–$215,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $208k versus about $179k 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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As a Sr. Software Engineer, High Performance Computing (Starlink), you will join the Starlink program as a Beam Planning Software and Network Software Engineer. You will be responsible for the complete lifecycle of software development, including design, testing, and support to optimize hardware utility. Your daily work involves developing highly reliable, real-time software to determine beam formation for a low-latency, high-bandwidth satellite-based global network. You will lead architecture reviews, develop prototypes to prove design concepts, and build 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++, with preferred expertise in real-time rendering, physics simulation, network topology, numerical optimization, and graph theoretic approaches. You will solve complex problems related to managing a large laser mesh network in orbit to provide global broadband internet access.
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