Jobs at SpaceX

Owns Starlink customer activations, billing, order setup, shipment coordination, invoicing, reconciliation, and issue resolution across Latin America. The role requires fluent Spanish and English, strong operational accuracy, familiarity with regional logistics and Mexico’s CFDI invoicing, and the ability to manage high order volumes. The specialist tracks milestones, resolves past-due balances and unapplied cash, communicates with customers and internal teams, and improves operational processes.

Supports Starlink customer activations, hardware shipments, Brazilian invoicing, billing reconciliation, and account setup. Coordinates with customers, internal teams, and local partners to resolve delivery and documentation issues, track milestones, address past-due balances, and improve operational processes. Requires fluency in Portuguese and English, familiarity with Brazilian invoicing and logistics, strong organization, and accuracy in high-volume workflows.

Designs PCB layouts for Starlink hardware, including layer stackups, component placement, routing, libraries, and fabrication documentation. Collaborates with hardware engineers, vendors, and internal teams on mixed-signal, RF, digital, and power-conversion designs. Supports design-for-manufacture, assembly, and test standards; evaluates PCB tools, maintains design rules, and trains team members. The role requires electrical engineering or equivalent PCB layout experience and may involve extended hours for mission-critical deadlines.

Leads SpaceX and SpaceXSI government relations across the Pacific region by engaging state and local officials, developing legislative and stakeholder strategies, monitoring policy developments, conducting research, and creating policy materials. Supports statewide government affairs priorities, builds relationships with lawmakers and regulators, and represents the company at political and industry events. The role is onsite when not traveling and may require long hours or weekend work.

Lead automation projects for high-volume satellite manufacturing, from factory concept and machine commissioning through operational handoff. Develop maintainable PLC and safety-control code, design HMI systems, implement compliant robotic and manufacturing equipment safeguards, and create electrical systems meeting NEC, NFPA, and UL508A standards. The role spans mechanical, electrical, robotics, motion systems, industrial software, factory monitoring, scheduling, budgeting, troubleshooting, and cross-functional team leadership.

Design, validate, and operate optical datacom systems for Starlink satellites. Perform photonics, electrical, signal integrity, and mechanical trade studies; lead qualification testing, anomaly resolution, link modeling, and reliability analysis. Collaborate with software, automation, manufacturing, supply chain, customers, and vendors to develop high-speed optical interconnects, automated tuning tools, and manufacturable, reliable transceiver products.

Design, validate, test, and operate free-space optical communication and imaging systems for Starlink satellites. Responsibilities include optical architecture, requirements definition, environmental qualification, link-budget maintenance, field testing, anomaly resolution, reliability analysis, and collaboration with manufacturing, supply chain, software, automation, vendors, and customers. The role requires hands-on optics or photonics experience and programming proficiency.

Develop and validate optical transceiver and high-speed data communication systems for Starlink satellites. Responsibilities include photonics and electrical system design, trade studies, link modeling, environmental and reliability testing, anomaly resolution, manufacturing support, and collaboration on automation tools. The role requires hands-on experience with photonics, SERDES, optical DSP, signal integrity, programming, laboratory testing, and high-reliability hardware development.

Design, commission, and implement automated manufacturing systems for Starlink optical payloads. Responsibilities include PLC programming, robotics, machine vision, process controls, factory data systems, user interfaces, electrical and pneumatic schematics, and safety-compliant control systems. The role spans machine design through production deployment and requires collaboration across engineering and manufacturing teams to improve efficiency, troubleshoot systems, and ensure compliance with industrial safety standards.

Designs, commissions, and implements automated manufacturing systems for high-volume satellite production. Responsibilities include PLC and robotics programming, machine vision, factory performance systems, user interfaces, electrical and pneumatic schematics, control panels, process improvement, and safety compliance. The engineer collaborates across teams to develop and troubleshoot integrated automation, robotics, electrical, and manufacturing systems.

Source and engage passive candidates for Starlink’s hard-to-fill engineering, supply chain, go-to-market, and business operations roles. Responsibilities include conducting hiring intakes, creating searchable profiles, performing Boolean and X-ray searches, writing personalized outreach, qualifying candidates, maintaining ATS records, tracking pipeline metrics, mapping competitor talent, and partnering with recruiters and hiring managers. The role is full-time onsite in Redmond, Washington, with extended hours and weekends as needed.

Build talent pipelines for hard-to-fill Starlink roles across engineering, supply chain, go-to-market, and business operations. Responsibilities include partnering with recruiters and hiring managers, sourcing passive candidates through online platforms and technical communities, conducting personalized outreach and phone qualification, maintaining ATS records, tracking pipeline metrics, mapping competitor talent markets, and accurately representing SpaceX to candidates.

Lead identification and scaling of growth opportunities for Starlink, owning end-to-end playbooks for product and channel rollouts. Use consumer insights and analytics to optimize demand generation and inform pricing/packaging. Drive cross-functional initiatives with Finance, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer Support to maximize global sales.

Develop and maintain Linux-based operating systems, high-performance device drivers, and observability tools for SpaceX’s supercomputer network and Starlink laser mesh. Responsibilities include production deployment and debugging, root-cause analysis, hardware bring-up, OS and software stack development, and collaboration with hardware teams on next-generation systems.

Develop and maintain high-reliability Linux operating systems for supercomputer network fabrics and Starlink satellite laser meshes. Build high-performance device drivers, debug and root-cause production issues, improve observability and configuration tools, and collaborate with hardware teams to bring up new systems. The role requires C or C++ system programming, Linux kernel and networking expertise, hardware bring-up, peripheral interfaces, performance debugging, and system security experience.

Develop and maintain Linux-based operating systems, device drivers, and observability tools for SpaceX’s supercomputer network and Starlink laser mesh. Debug and improve production systems, root-cause reliability issues, bring up software on new hardware, and collaborate with hardware teams on next-generation systems. The role requires low-level C/C++ systems programming, Linux kernel and networking expertise, hardware interface knowledge, and secure boot and system-hardening experience.

Develop and maintain high-reliability Linux systems for AI supercomputer networks and Starlink satellite laser meshes. Build high-performance device drivers, debug and root-cause production issues, improve observability and configuration tools, and collaborate with hardware teams to bring up operating systems and software on new hardware. The role requires system programming in C or C++, Linux kernel expertise, hardware interface knowledge, and experience with debugging, driver optimization, security hardening, and secure boot.

Leads operations engineers supporting environmental health and safety systems and tools. Develops dashboards, analyzes safety and environmental data, produces reports, trains employees, manages software improvements and projects, resolves operational challenges, and coordinates cross-functional partners. Responsibilities also include team staffing, prioritization, performance review, process redundancy, site collaboration, and leadership communication. Regular travel to U.S. SpaceX sites and extended hours for incidents, audits, and system cutovers may be required.

Build and maintain data infrastructure, software systems, ETL processes, analytics tools, and metrics for the Starlink Mobile network. Aggregate and analyze large datasets, detect application issues, fuse data from multiple sources, create data catalogs, and develop predictive models and machine learning pipelines. Collaborate with engineering teams, operators, and external partners to assess network growth and effectiveness.

Integrate, test, and evaluate satellite and ground-based cellular core networks for Starlink Mobile. Define LTE EPC, 5G Core, and IMS requirements; develop integration plans, technology roadmaps, and performance metrics; support international mobile operator partnerships; and ensure network reliability, regulatory compliance, and interoperability. The role also requires technical documentation, test automation, protocol-stack integration, and engagement with senior technical stakeholders.