SpaceX is looking to maximize Starlink's utility for communities and businesses around the globe by developing the strategy, key metrics, tools, software services, and processes for assessing how well key aspects of Starlink are scaling and how effective the Starlink Network is itself, in serving millions of users around the globe.
Requirements
- Development experience in an object-oriented programming language (i.e. C, C++, Python)
- Professional experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning
- Experience using Spark, Presto, Flink, or Snowflake
- Experience building solutions with Parquet, or similar storage formats
- Knowledge of Kubernetes
- Experience building solutions with in-stream data processing of structured and semi-structured data
- Experience building predictive models and machine learning pipelines (clustering analysis, prediction, anomaly detection)
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, tools, processes, and custom software to objectively assess growth areas for the Starlink program
- Automate the aggregation of metrics and detection of widespread application issues across Starlink
- Lead technical investigations about chronic application-level issues
- Build ground-based software systems that ingest, transform, and store data
- Apply data analytics, models, and techniques to data products created by space vehicles
- Create catalogs of data and tools that can be used by you and other teams to perform analytics
- Fuse data from multiple sources to create usable information
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or a STEM discipline
- 1+ years of professional data/software engineering experience (internship experience is applicable)
- Establish and maintain relationships with key third-party application/content owners
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment that includes working with changing needs and requirements
- Ability to take on projects that require taking initiative and developing new expertise
