Mission Integration Engineer, Mission and Ground Systems (Starshield)Active$130K

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Serve as the customer interface at meetings, tests, and reviews to develop: operations plans, design missions, and participate in real world operations.

  • Ensure contract deliverables are completed on-time and distill customer: requirements into actionable development objectives.

  • Work with internal and external stakeholders to drive development.: Collaborate with subsystem representatives across team boundaries to consider all necessary trades and ensure end-to-end mission success.

  • Support all phases of the program from development, initial proposal, through: successful test, flight, and on-orbit commissioning. This will include educating the customer on our designs and methodologies.

  • Own ground segment architecture design, including compute infrastructure,: network architecture, and software systems.

  • Support in-person site surveys and selection for ground stations and datacenters.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in a engineering or science discipline.
  • + years of software engineering or electrical engineering, working hands-on: with hardware or software technical projects.
  • Familiarity with USG intelligence processes and systems.
  • Experience integrating with large language models and traditional machine learning techniques.