Designs and plans scalable data center connectivity, including fiber and low-voltage cable plants supporting speeds beyond 800G, and oversees construction, testing, and troubleshooting for SpaceX’s data center infrastructure.
Designs, installs, and maintains mission-critical network infrastructure for SpaceX Starship launch pads, including physical cabling, network hardware, on-premises compute, and data center environments. Collaborates with launch controls teams to ensure reliable connectivity during critical launch operations.
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…
Lead a team of 3-5 hardware engineers to design, develop, and produce Starlink consumer electronics (phased-array dishes, WiFi routers, power supplies) from concept through high-volume manufacturing, owning technical roadmap and cross-functional collaboration across antenna, software, mechanical, thermal, and production teams.
Operates, builds, and deploys the Starshield data center network supporting national security missions, including high-speed optical and copper connectivity for AI clusters at 100k+ GPU scale. Core work spans network design, security, performance, automation, and troubleshooting using BGP/OSPF/VXLAN, InfiniBand/NVLink, and NVIDIA GPU stacks.
Designs, builds, and operates SpaceX’s Starshield data center networks supporting national security missions, including high-speed optical and copper connectivity for 100k+ GPU AI clusters. Collaborates with ML teams on interconnect topology, deploys network hardware, builds automation, and requires Top Secret clearance.
SpaceX Starlink Network Engineer who operates, builds, and deploys global network infrastructure—managing POPs and interconnections, optimizing performance and reliability, troubleshooting strategic customer integrations, and automating network devices—using enterprise/cloud networks, Layer-1 transport, BGP/OSPF/MPLS, Linux, Python, and SDN/NFV.
The Network Operations Engineer builds and scales tools, processes, and automation to operate SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet network, collaborating with engineering teams on monitoring, incident response, and system improvements. Core technologies include Python, SQL, bash, and modern networking protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, and SDN/NFV environments.
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