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Software Engineer, Product Development (Starshield)

📍 Location
Hawthorne
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 19, 2026

About the Role

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.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (STARSHIELD)

The Starshield mission is to support national security through a focus on timely and reliable information delivery. Our partners in the intelligence community and defense services need best-in-class technology, developed and fielded quickly and iteratively. Our goals are focused on delivering meaningful new capabilities through both new hardware development and continual software innovation.


The Starshield Software team is building software for novel in-space sensing capabilities that can deliver data to end users rapidly and securely. Our engineers are hands-on developing embedded systems and testing new hardware, as well as p...

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