Mission Integration Engineer, Ground Systems (Starshield)

SpaceX; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, dental

Paid time off: 3 weeks

10+ paid holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Mission Integration Engineer for the Mission and Ground Systems (Starshield) to tackle complex problems from requirements verification through rapid prototyping and deployment. You will join a Mission Management team to align work across software, flight reliability, and payload integration, focusing on mission-specific systems and customer-driven specifications.

You’ll develop system specs, interface control documents, and infrastructure plans across command and control,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or science discipline.
• 1+ years of software engineering or electrical engineering, hands-on with hardware or software projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the customer interface at meetings, tests, and reviews to develop operations plans, design missions, and participate in real world operations.
• Ensure contract deliverables are completed on-time and distill customer requirements into actionable development objectives.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to drive development and collaborate with subsystem representatives to ensure end-to-end mission success.
• Support all phases of the program from development to on-orbit commissioning and educate the customer on designs and methodologies.
• Own ground segment architecture design including compute infrastructure, network architecture, and software systems.
• Support in-person site surveys and selection for ground stations and datacenters.

Skills

Software engineering

Electrical engineering

Team collaboration

Mission management

USG processes

ML integration

Hardware deployments

Networking basics

Pressure resistance

Technical communication

Spacecraft design

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or science

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Mission Integration Engineer for the Mission and Ground Systems (Starshield) to tackle complex problems from requirements verification through rapid prototyping and deployment. You will join a Mission Management team to align work across software, flight reliability, and payload integration, focusing on mission-specific systems and customer-driven specifications.

You’ll develop system specs, interface control documents, and infrastructure plans across command and control,