Onsite Software Engineer, Manufacturing Infra

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in the San Francisco area is seeking a Software Engineer for Manufacturing Infrastructure to build mission-critical applications used in Starship production and Starlink systems. You will own full stack software, prototype new tools, and collaborate across engineering teams to improve reliability and throughput.

This role emphasizes ownership, problem solving, and deploying robust software in high-throughput environments, with onsite work and opportunities to impact aerospace milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in CS/Engineering or related field, or 2+ years of software development experience.
• Experience in full stack development across frontend and backend
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX products.
• Create new applications to improve manufacturing operations.
• Build prototypes to validate design concepts and quantify constraints.
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development lifecycle.
• Engage with users to understand problems and propose efficient solutions.
• Contribute to architecture, design reviews, and code quality improvements

Skills

Full stack development

Python

Go

React/Angular

Distributed systems

Docker & Kubernetes

Test Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or 2+ years experience

Tools

Make/Bazel/Gradle

Terraform/Ansible

Kafka/RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Unix/Linux

CI/CD tooling

Job description

SpaceX in the San Francisco area is seeking a Software Engineer for Manufacturing Infrastructure to build mission-critical applications used in Starship production and Starlink systems. You will own full stack software, prototype new tools, and collaborate across engineering teams to improve reliability and throughput.

This role emphasizes ownership, problem solving, and deploying robust software in high-throughput environments, with onsite work and opportunities to impact aerospace milestones.