SpaceX is leveraging its experience to deploy Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation and most advanced broadband internet system. The Sr. Full-Stack Data Scientist will be responsible for analyzing the performance and reliability of customer hardware to minimize reliability issues as new products are launched and use cases expand.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional experience in data or software engineering, with strong proficiency in Python, SQL, Bash scripting, and familiarity with at least one additional programming language (e.g., R, Java, Scala, C++)
- 2+ years of professional experience in data science and machine learning fundamentals (regression, classification, clustering, anomaly detection, natural language processing)
- Experience building production-level predictive models, machine learning solutions, and analytics pipelines
- Strong software engineering skills; ability to write clean, efficient, and robust code with a foundation in software development best-practices; ability to contribute to internal code repositories and production services
- Deep expertise cleaning, aggregating, analyzing and automating large, industry-complex datasets
- Strong in data engineering fundamentals – relational databases, data pipeline development and orchestration, and data science-focused cloud development
- Strong analytical skills: Statistical analysis, data visualization, and quantitative reasoning
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain critical data science infrastructure, tools, processes, and custom software to objectively assess the performance and reliability of Starlink customer hardware
- Lead technical data-driven investigations with tight timelines by diving into isolated or fleet-wide performance or reliability issues affecting our customers and present findings to executives
- Apply data science and statistical inference techniques to analyze data and build models that help improve customer experience and drive business growth
- Build software systems that ingest, transform, store, and combine data from multiple sources
- Create custom datasets, analyses, and analytics tools that will be used by internal teams and stakeholders to monitor, analyze, and impact business outcomes
- Consistently contribute effort, leadership, and creative thinking to solving complex problems in a collaborative fashion under tight deadlines
- Build relationships and collaborate across disciplines including engineering, production, test, inventory, quality, supply chain, and customer experience to drive positive business outcomes
Other
- This position is based in Bastrop, TX and requires being on-site, remote work not considered
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Must be willing to travel for work, up to 25%
- To 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.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to make presentations to engineers, team members, internal customers, and management
