SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER (GROUND SEGMENT)
The SpaceX Ground Segment team is responsible for mission-critical space to ground communications and tracking of our Falcon, Dragon, and Starship vehicles. The team designs, builds, and operates a network of ground stations spanning the Earth as well as RF communication and optical tracking hardware at launch sites and on recovery vessels. The Ground Segment team also provides interfaces to NASA mission control, including command, telemetry, voice, and video, for Crew and Cargo NASA missions. As SpaceX pushes to make humanity multiplanetary, the team is working on developing the system that will be used to communicate with our vehicles and astronauts on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
As a software engineer on the Ground Segment team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing the software that is used by ground stations around the world to communicate with and track Falcon, Dragon, and Starship as they fly. You will be expected to work alongside Operators in Mission Control to ensure mission success and alongside Hardware engineers to ensure the reliability and performance of the ground stations. You will demonstrate extreme ownership of your projects through system level thinking and cross-discipline collaboration to drive the safety and success of human spaceflight. The role also includes opportunities to travel to launch sites and ground stations around the world to understand the hardware that your software runs on and the environment within which it needs to operate.
Engineers on this team are curious, collaborative, love to learn new things, and work effectively in a dynamic environment to deliver high-impact technology on a massive scale.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Architect, develop, and test software projects that run on servers around the world to communicate with spacecraft and relay data back to SpaceX
- Develop continuous integration and testing systems and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) systems in order to confidently deploy new software to a global production environment
- Partner with avionics, flight operators, GNC, and other stakeholders to identify and execute software solutions for vehicle communications and tracking
- Write automation software to streamline the flow of telemetry from multiple vehicles in space simultaneously, through the global ground station fleet, to various vehicle customers