Jobs at SpaceX

Drafts, negotiates, and reviews commercial procurement contracts for SpaceX. Advises Supply Chain, Purchasing, Facilities, and other business teams on legal risks, regulations, international transactions, and dispute resolution. Manages purchase-order forms and standard terms, develops legal processes and training, and improves procurement efficiency through technology. Builds trusted cross-functional relationships and provides solutions-oriented counsel in a fast-changing multinational environment.

Leads SpaceX government and community affairs for its Louisiana launch site. Responsibilities include building relationships with local and state officials, civic and community leaders, and educational stakeholders; monitoring policy developments; preparing research and communications materials; supporting outreach and messaging; and advancing statewide government-relations priorities. The role requires Louisiana residency near Vermilion Parish, statewide travel, event participation, and flexibility for extended or weekend work.

Commercial Counsel will draft, negotiate, and review procurement and commercial agreements, advise Supply Chain, Purchasing, Facilities, and other stakeholders on legal and regulatory risks, manage purchase order terms, improve procurement processes, and support dispute resolution. The role requires cross-functional counseling, strong business judgment, contract expertise, and bar admission, with onsite work in Washington, DC.

Plans and manages supply for launch-site production by setting inventory targets, executing MRP messages, aligning demand and supply, mitigating sourcing risks, and resolving procurement issues. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers on sourcing, make-versus-buy, cost, quality, capacity, and design-for-manufacturability decisions. Maintains supplier relationships, analyzes procurement metrics, supports value engineering, and ensures regulatory and company-policy compliance.

Develops, integrates, operates, and improves composite test stands, equipment, and manufacturing processes. Responsibilities include creating drawings and instrumentation documentation, supporting structural and fluid-system integration, executing tests, troubleshooting hardware, writing procedures, resolving non-conformances, and collaborating with engineering and technician teams. The role involves hands-on work with hazardous systems, large assemblies, and complex multidisciplinary test environments, plus travel to launch sites or customer facilities up to 40% annually.

Source capital equipment and consumables for Starlink by placing purchase orders, forecasting demand, negotiating with suppliers, managing contracts, monitoring cost, quality, and delivery, and developing sourcing strategies. The role manages supplier performance, cost modeling, preferred supplier networks, blocked invoices, and onsite vendor reviews while partnering with legal and internal stakeholders. It is onsite in Redmond, Washington and may require up to 20% international travel.

Programs, sets up, and operates sinker and wire EDM machines for Starlink production. Designs and machines electrodes, optimizes machining parameters, develops fixtures, performs preventative maintenance, and inspects tight-tolerance parts. The role requires collaboration with engineering, blueprint and GD&T interpretation, and the ability to support production across shifts, overtime, and weekends.

Drive Starlink integrations with third-party networking vendors, develop joint value propositions and technical solution guides, support enterprise technical sales engagements, and collaborate with product engineering, marketing, legal, finance, and government affairs teams. The role requires hands-on enterprise networking expertise, customer-facing technical sales experience, conference representation, troubleshooting skills, and approximately 50% travel. The position is onsite in Redmond, Washington when not traveling.

Design, build, operate, and maintain electrical, avionics, power generation, distribution, and microgrid systems for Starship and Starbase. Responsibilities include circuit and power converter design, system analysis, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, automation support, power budgeting, metering, protective relay development, production and flight support, and compliance with electrical safety standards.

Leads a two-shift development machining team responsible for CNC process improvement, precision hardware, first-article quality, new product introduction, and production transfers. Oversees staffing, capacity, schedules, documentation, maintenance, equipment configuration, and performance. Diagnoses complex machining problems, improves yield, cycle time, cost, and space utilization, and coordinates with engineering, quality, machining leadership, and vendors to deliver development and test hardware.

Leads the design, implementation, troubleshooting, and expansion of large-scale wired, wireless, campus, and data center networks. Responsibilities include configuring network infrastructure, deploying 802.1X network access control, developing policies and automation tools, monitoring network health, planning project roadmaps, and maintaining documentation. Requires onsite work, extended hours and weekend availability, and compliance with ITAR eligibility requirements.

Leads FP&A for business segments, including resource planning, KPI analysis, spending and contract profitability, variance reporting, capital expenditure tracking, cash forecasting, and operational decision support. Partners with production, engineering, supply chain, accounting, and executives, while managing and developing financial analysts.

Perform ASIC physical design from synthesis through RTL2GDSII implementation and signoff, including floorplanning, power-grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage-drop, and logic-equivalency checks. Develop automation scripts, resolve timing and congestion issues, support architectural tradeoffs, and collaborate with ASIC design, systems, firmware, validation, and product engineering teams.

Develops next-generation ASICs for SpaceX Starlink systems. Responsibilities include synthesis, floorplanning, power-grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage-drop analysis, logic equivalency, and signoff closure. The engineer also develops physical-design automation, resolves timing and congestion issues, and collaborates with ASIC teams on architecture, power, area, and timing tradeoffs.

Develops physical implementation for next-generation ASICs, including synthesis, floorplanning, power grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, and signoff closure. The engineer also improves physical design methodologies and automation scripts, collaborates on architectural feasibility and RTL tradeoffs, and resolves timing, congestion, and implementation flow issues.

Build and optimize data pipelines, backend services, forecasting systems, dashboards, and automated workflows supporting Starlink ground-network inventory, logistics, deployment, and reliability. Integrate ERP/MRP and logistics systems, manage hardware demand forecasting, improve supply-chain processes, monitor operational metrics, and support emergency deployments. The role requires collaboration across engineering, infrastructure, logistics, and program teams, with up to 25% travel and occasional extended or weekend hours.

Develop and execute strategic sourcing plans for SpaceX launch and recovery programs. Responsibilities include supplier evaluation, negotiations, RFIs/RFPs, contract management, purchase orders, cost reduction, market analysis, supplier performance, make-versus-buy decisions, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement. The role manages multimillion-dollar contracts and supports supply continuity, quality, delivery, pricing, and risk objectives.

Designs, installs, maintains, and owns video and operational voice systems across data center and power generation facilities. Leads large-scale AV projects, oversees contractors, troubleshoots systems, procures equipment, and manages inventory. The role requires expertise in IP video, SDI, AV networking, audio and lighting control systems, network standards, and technical drawings. It also involves occasional travel, extended hours, weekend work, and physical work in tight spaces.

Leads Starlink’s global network interconnection strategy, including peering, transit, Internet exchange, caching, routing, redundancy, and capacity planning. Builds technical and commercial relationships with peering partners, evaluates connectivity opportunities, develops policies, and automates interconnection workflows. Collaborates with engineering and operations teams to improve routing performance, reliability, telemetry, incident response, and cost efficiency. Requires on-call availability, extended hours as needed, and 10–15% domestic and international travel.

Design and develop optical connectivity solutions for Starlink’s ground network infrastructure. Build and maintain lab and production test stations, create Python-based test automation, and support product qualification and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with ground and space networking teams to scale physical-layer infrastructure, optimize traffic flow, monitor optical system health, and improve reliability. The role requires optical network design, DWDM knowledge, test characterization, data analysis, and IP networking expertise.