Starlink Data Scientist: Growth & ML Insights

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision, dental

401(k)

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Shuttle service

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Data Scientist to develop strategy, metrics, tools, and processes to assess how Starlink scales and how the network serves tens of millions of users globally. You will collaborate with operators, subsystem engineers, software and network teams and external partners to drive analytics initiatives.

The role emphasizes building scalable data infrastructure, ML pipelines, and ETL solutions, with a focus on delivering actionable insights that improve Starlink’s performance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or a STEM discipline.
• 1+ years of professional data/software engineering experience (internship experience is applicable)
• Development experience in an object-oriented programming language (i.e. C, C++, Python)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, tools, processes, and custom software to objectively assess growth areas for the Starlink program
• Lead technical investigations about chronic network-level issues
• Automate the aggregation of metrics and detection of widespread application issues across Starlink
• Establish and maintain relationships with key engineering stakeholders
• Apply data analytics, models, and techniques to data products created by space vehicles
• Build ground-based software systems that ingest, transform, and store data
• Fuse data from multiple sources to create usable information

Skills

OO programming

Data analytics

Machine learning

Education

STEM degree

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Data Scientist to develop strategy, metrics, tools, and processes to assess how Starlink scales and how the network serves tens of millions of users globally. You will collaborate with operators, subsystem engineers, software and network teams and external partners to drive analytics initiatives.

The role emphasizes building scalable data infrastructure, ML pipelines, and ETL solutions, with a focus on delivering actionable insights that improve Starlink’s performance and