GNC Engineer, Fleet Management (Starshield) SpaceXGNC Engineer, Fleet Management (Starshield)Hawthorne, CA$125,000–$150,000 / yearTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Senior Radiation Effects Engineer AstranisSenior Radiation Effects EngineerSan Francisco, CA$160,000–$215,000 / yearCollaborate cross-functionally with mechanical and structural teams to run 3D ray-tracing simulations (e.g., FASTRAD) and optimize shielding levels versus mass trade-offs for sensitive electrical assemblies. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.
Senior Spacecraft Structural Analysis Engineer I - TS/SCI Clearance Rocket Lab USASenior Spacecraft Structural Analysis Engineer I - TS/SCI ClearanceLong Beach, CA$115,000–$158,000 / yearTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Rocket Lab Employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable. Our Space Systems business designs and builds our extensive line of satellites, payloads, and their components, including spacecraft that have been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and components used on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Senior Electrical Engineer Ephemeris NetSenior Electrical EngineerEl Segundo, CaliforniaYou'll contribute to three critical hardware domains: (1) the high-speed digital networking electronics capable of routing data at up to 9.6 Tbps between multiple optical terminals and managing a ~200 TB space-based data cache, (2) the optical terminal electronics including motor control systems, fine steering control electronics, photodiode transimpedance amplifiers, and laser drivers that enable free-space optical communication, and (3) semi-custom optical transceivers that bridge our networking and optical systems. Join our electrical engineering team to design and develop the electronics that make our vision of space networking a reality - from the high-speed digital systems inside our Ephemeris Network Box to the opto-electronics that run optical inter-satellite links terminals.
Staff Electrical Engineer Ephemeris NetStaff Electrical EngineerEl Segundo, CaliforniaYou'll contribute to three critical hardware domains: (1) the high-speed digital networking electronics capable of routing data at up to 9.6 Tbps between multiple optical terminals and managing a ~200 TB space-based data cache, (2) the optical terminal electronics including motor control systems, fine steering control electronics, photodiode transimpedance amplifiers, and laser drivers that enable free-space optical communication, and (3) semi-custom optical transceivers that bridge our networking and optical systems. Join our electrical engineering team to design and develop the electronics that make our vision of space networking a reality - from the high-speed digital systems inside our Ephemeris Network Box to the opto-electronics that run optical inter-satellite links terminals.
Electrical Engineer (Starship Avionics) SpaceXElectrical Engineer (Starship Avionics)Hawthorne, CA$105,000–$122,500 / yearTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. The Starship team supports the mission to revolutionize orbital flight and space travel- opening access for humankind to establish new frontiers in space and ultimately become a multi-planetary species.
Senior Network Software Engineer II - Secret Clearance Rocket Lab USASenior Network Software Engineer II - Secret ClearanceLong Beach, CA$150,000–$225,000 / yearTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Rocket Lab Employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable. Our Space Systems business designs and builds our extensive line of satellites, payloads, and their components, including spacecraft that have been selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and components used on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Sr. Thermal Engineer, Thermal & Fluid Analysis (Starship) SpaceXSr. Thermal Engineer, Thermal & Fluid Analysis (Starship)Hawthorne, CA$130,000–$180,000 / yearTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. You will make engineering decisions to improve vehicle performance and reliability to help create a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Tooling Engineer, Forging Hadrian AutomationTooling Engineer, ForgingTorrance, CaliforniaThe factories-as-a-service team analyzes our current customers' production and supply chain challenges, builds data-driven presentations, designs and scopes factories of the future, and assists the Federal and Strategic sales team in forming long-term partnerships with the DOD, Primes, and other manufacturers. Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.
Sr. Power Electronics Engineer (Starship) SpaceXSr. Power Electronics Engineer (Starship)Hawthorne, CA$140,000–$205,000 / yearThe Starship electrical hardware development team supports the mission to revolutionize orbital flight and space travel- opening access for humankind to establish new frontiers in space and ultimately become a multi-planetary species. Experience designing switching power converters, power magnetics, analog control loops, solid state load switches, motor inverters, EMI/EMC compliance, or sensor signal conditioning circuits.
Principal GNC Engineer AstrolabPrincipal GNC EngineerHawthorne, California$180,000–$235,000 / yearEnsure the GNC and perception system design, implementation, and testing are closely coordinated with affected stakeholders such as vehicle engineering (for sensor and lighting placement), avionics, software, and mission operations team. What you'll do: Lead the design, verification, validation, testing, and characterization of GNC and perception systems for manual, semi-autonomous, and autonomous rover operations in a fast-moving, schedule-constrained development environment.
Senior FPGA Engineer (TS/SCI) K2 SpaceSenior FPGA Engineer (TS/SCI)Los Angeles, California$120,000–$225,000 / yearBacked by $450M from leading investors including Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alpine Space Ventures, and others – with an additional $500M in signed contracts across commercial and US government customers – we’re mass-producing the highest-power satellite platforms ever built for missions from LEO to deep space. This spectrum includes HDL programming (VHDL, SystemVerilog), embedded software on microcontrollers (Rust, C++), operating systems (Rust, C++, C), application software on flight computers (Rust, C++), GNC algorithms (Rust, C++), to test systems (Python), and many things inbetween.
Launch Engineer, Ground Support Equipment (Falcon) SpaceXLaunch Engineer, Ground Support Equipment (Falcon)Vandenberg, CA$100,000–$130,000 / yearTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. You will have the opportunity to utilize your knowledge, experience, and creativity to rapidly design, build, and activate fluid and mechanical systems required to support all aspects of SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle processing, spacecraft integration, and umbilical refurb.
Loads & Dynamics Engineer (Starfall) SpaceXLoads & Dynamics Engineer (Starfall)Hawthorne, CA$100,000–$130,000 / yearTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. LOADS & DYNAMICS ENGINEER (STARFALL) The Starfall team is developing the world’s first high-capacity, high-cadence, and low-cost re-entry space capsule.
Senior Aerospace Project Engineer DZYNE TechnologiesSenior Aerospace Project EngineerIrvine, CaliforniaPosition Title: Senior Aerospace Project Engineer Location: Irvine, CA Work Arrangement: On-site Position Summary: DZYNE has an immediate need for a talented Senior Project Engineer capable of the oversight and integration of projects supporting on-going and emerging federal aerospace, defense, and commercial contracts. Required Duties and Responsibilities: Primary Role will be maintaining project timelines, budgets, and deliverables, working in collaboration with Program Management and Technical Engineering Project financials.
Sr. FPGA Engineer Xona Space SystemsSr. FPGA EngineerBurlingame, CaliforniaWith Pulsar – the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit – Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection. Cross-Functional Integration & HW/SW Partitioning: Define and optimize HW/SW partitioning in collaboration with SW teams; ensure efficient SW interfaces, seamless integration, robust system-level testing, and preservation of performance margins.
GNC Engineer Darwin RecruitmentGNC EngineerSan Francisco, California$115,000–$140,000Build test automation across Simulink, hardware in the loop, engine test cells and integrated vehicles. They are entering qualification, so expect a lot of iterative PID tuning against noisy real test data.
Electromagnetic Effects Test Engineer SpaceXElectromagnetic Effects Test EngineerHawthorne, CA$105,000–$122,500 / yearPerform analysis and design relating to effects of circuit and power system grounding architectures, structural electrical bonding, circuit isolation, shielding effectiveness, radiated/conducted emissions and susceptibility, near field/far field electrodynamics, shielding effectiveness, etc. Previous work experience with reading, interpreting and following circuit schematics, PCB layouts, engineering drawings, BOMs, cable harnesses, wiring schematics, interface diagrams, layout drawings, mechanical drawings, and CAD software.
Robotics Software Engineer Scout AIRobotics Software EngineerSunnyvale, California$145,000–$220,000 / yearThis role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving real-world problems at the intersection of robotics, AI, and scalable software systems. Fury enables human operators to command fleets of robots through natural language, and empowers those machines to sense, decide, and act together as one.