Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Data & Video Analysis

Starlink; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock incentives

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Full Stack (Data & Video Analysis) in Hawthorne, CA to own end-to-end platforms that ingest and process telemetry, sensor data, or video for engineering analysis and model inference.

You will collaborate with vehicle, propulsion, test, manufacturing, and inspection engineers to reduce time, catch issues, and improve data tooling; you’ll build internal tools, optimize performance, and drive production readiness with CI/CD and robust testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, math, physics, or related field, or 8+ years of equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years building and operating production applications or data systems, including full-stack development.
• 3+ years building production Python systems, including data processing, services, or user-facing application code.
• 1+ year leading technical work, including design reviews, project direction, and code quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of full-stack applications and platforms used across production, test, and flight.
• Collaborate with engineers across vehicle, propulsion, test, manufacturing, and inspection to address analysis problems.
• Build internal tools and web interfaces to query, visualize, and act on engineering data and analysis results.
• Profile and improve performance for data processing, database queries, and interactive views of large telemetry or video.
• Move prototypes into production with automated tests, CI/CD, and repeatable release processes.
• Set architecture and testing/CI/CD/observability practices for the team.
• Own the infrastructure including deployments, monitoring, operations, and reliability.
• Operate production applications: respond to failures and implement fixes.

Skills

Software development

Full-stack development

Python

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics

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

Tools

Python

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

OpenCV

PyTorch

Ultralytics / YOLO

Pandas / NumPy / SciPy

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Full Stack (Data & Video Analysis) in Hawthorne, CA to own end-to-end platforms that ingest and process telemetry, sensor data, or video for engineering analysis and model inference.

You will collaborate with vehicle, propulsion, test, manufacturing, and inspection engineers to reduce time, catch issues, and improve data tooling; you’ll build internal tools, optimize performance, and drive production readiness with CI/CD and robust testing.