Launch-Ready Flight Software Applications Engineer

SpaceX; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock incentives

Medical, vision and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer, Flight Software in Hawthorne, CA to join a team building mission-critical applications that accelerate production and flight of SpaceX vehicles and Starlink systems. You will own software engineering lifecycle, prototype concepts, and collaborate across architecture, design, and code reviews.

The role emphasizes full ownership of software development, solving challenging problems, and delivering high-quality systems that enable Starship and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional software experience
• 1+ years of experience in full stack development

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions that are used across SpaceX
• Create new applications that improve how SpaceX operates
• Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Deep dive into your users’ problems to find and create efficient solutions
• Bring your voice to the table in team collaborations on architecture, design, and code reviews

Skills

Python

C#.NET

Go

Scala

Java

Single-page apps

Version control/CI-CD

Testing/CI/Build/Monitoring

Profiling

Build systems

Package management

Unix-like OS

Terraform/Ansible/Puppet

Kafka/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline

2+ years of professional software experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Make

Bazel/Pants/Buck

Gradle

pip

npm

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer, Flight Software in Hawthorne, CA to join a team building mission-critical applications that accelerate production and flight of SpaceX vehicles and Starlink systems. You will own software engineering lifecycle, prototype concepts, and collaborate across architecture, design, and code reviews.

The role emphasizes full ownership of software development, solving challenging problems, and delivering high-quality systems that enable Starship and