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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or a STEM discipline.
• At least 1 year of professional data or software engineering experience; internship experience is applicable.
• Development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C, C++, or Python.
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Professional experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning.
• Ability to take initiative on projects and develop new expertise.
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing needs and requirements.
• Experience building solutions with in-stream processing of structured and semi-structured data.
• Experience building predictive models and machine learning pipelines, including clustering analysis, prediction, and anomaly detection.
• Experience in custom ETL design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Familiarity with the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and other common networking principles.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate work.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, tools, processes, and custom software to assess growth areas for the Starlink program.
• Lead technical investigations into chronic network-level issues.
• Automate metric aggregation 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.

Benefits

• Potential eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Other discounts and perks.
• Up to 3 weeks of accrued paid vacation.
• 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Washington State paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law.
• Company shuttles for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office, Monday through Friday.