Job brief: Software Engineer, Full Stack (Data & Video Analysis)

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on SpaceX's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens boards.greenhouse.io, the address SpaceX's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $125,000 to $195,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Hawthorne, CA · Starbase, TX
• Posted: 2026-11-03

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Mid level. The posting asks for 2+ years of experience.

Must have

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or another scientific discipline, or 2+ years of professional software experience in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of full-stack development experience.
• 1+ years of experience writing Python for data processing, services, or user-facing application code.
• Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S.
• § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S.

Conditions

• You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/…

Main duties

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications and platforms used across production, test, and flight, including data processing that turns telemetry, s…
• Work directly with vehicle, propulsion, test, manufacturing, and inspection engineers on their most important analysis problems.
• Build the internal tools and web interfaces engineers use to query, visualize, and act on engineering data and on the results of automated analysis.
• Profile and improve performance where engineers feel it: data processing, database queries, and interactive views of large telemetry or video.
• Integrate statistical models, computer vision, or large language models into review workflows for anomaly detection and inspection.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in California: $205k a year (902 listings, 45 employers). This listing is 22% lower.
• Across SpaceX's 2,898 open listings, 59% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How SpaceX hires

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