Wireless Software Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WAPalo Alto
Salary: $125,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted: 99 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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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Wireless Software Engineer (Starlink) As a Wireless Software Engineer (Starlink), you will join the team developing the world’s largest satellite constellation to provide global broadband internet. You will manage the complete software lifecycle, including development, testing, and support for firmware, embedded systems, and signal processing software running on custom hardware. Your daily responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining physical and MAC layer software for the wireless stack, architecting next-generation signal processing algorithms, and performing hardware bring-up and debugging. You will utilize C, C++, and knowledge of RF systems, network protocols, and digital signal processing techniques like FFT and channel estimation. The role focuses on solving novel engineering challenges to connect thousands of satellites to millions of users in real time within a software-defined global network.

Skills

C C++ Firmware Signal Processing Digital Signal Processing RF Systems Wi-Fi LTE 5G MAC Layer Network Protocols FFT Unit Testing Debugging Performance Optimization Spectrum Analyzer Oscilloscope

What you'll do

Design, implement, test, and maintain physical and MAC layer software for the Starlink communications network.
Architect current and next-generation Starlink hardware and signal processing algorithms.
Perform hardware bring-up, debugging, verification, and launch procedures.
Develop prototypes to prove key design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
Manage the complete software lifecycle including development, testing, and ongoing support.
Execute cross-layer integration of the end-to-end system with other engineering teams.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or STEM discipline.
2+ years of professional software engineering experience programming with C or C++ in lieu of a degree.
Experience working with wireless software or network protocols.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
Strong knowledge of wireless communications, signal processing, and/or network protocols (preferred).
Knowledge of RF systems and fundamentals such as noise figure, link budget, and non-linearity (preferred).
Experience writing software for RF/mixed-signal integrated circuits and systems (preferred).
Experience with broadband access technologies such as Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, or satellite broadband (preferred).

Software Engineer, Starlink Mobile

SpaceX

Redmond, WA +1 152 days ago $125,000–$145,000

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