Product Security Engineer, Starshield

SpaceX; Washington; On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Product Security Engineer for Starshield to influence security across our products, including cryptographic services and security-critical components. You will work on securing routers, gateways, and satellites while integrating security into factory processes and production systems.

The role emphasizes broad security design, incident response, and collaboration with other engineering teams to outsmart adversaries on an inter-planetary scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another STEM discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in security software development in lieu of a degree
• Experience with one or more software development languages (i.e. Python, C++, Golang)
• Experience designing and implementing security solutions for operating systems, distributed systems, or other enterprise/large-scale infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Design and build security infrastructure for Starshield, including cryptographic services and other security-critical services
• Develop security features for Starshield systems, including our router, dish, gateways, and satellites
• Design security into factory processes and provide network services in support of this
• Maintain existing production systems and improve security posture via both direct implementation and recommendations to other teams
• Build prototypes and help identify, design, and test security improvements

Skills

Software engineering

Applied cryptography

Network security

Operating system security

Secure/authenticated boot

Incident response and adversary detec

Vulnerability research

Python

C++

Golang

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM

Tools

TPMs

HSMs

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Product Security Engineer for Starshield to influence security across our products, including cryptographic services and security-critical components. You will work on securing routers, gateways, and satellites while integrating security into factory processes and production systems.

The role emphasizes broad security design, incident response, and collaboration with other engineering teams to outsmart adversaries on an inter-planetary scale.