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Sr. Software Engineer (Flight Reliability)

Hawthorne, CA💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-07-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop mission-critical software to accelerate launch vehicle production, flight operations, and Starlink growth while managing engineering changes and mitigating fleet risks.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Flight Reliability)

Builds

Mission-critical applications for launch vehicles (Falcon, Starship, Dragon) and Starlink systems

Domain

Aerospace / Space Exploration

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Full stack development, software system design, testing and CI/CD, application performance profiling, database management, version control

Preferred skills

Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, Java, Angular, React, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Docker, Agentic AI systems (LLM prompting, context retrieval, evaluation, monitoring)

Responsibilities

Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX, create new applications to improve operations, build prototypes to prove design concepts and quantify constraints, own all aspects of software engineering and product development, deep dive into user problems to create efficient solutions, collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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