SpaceX Data Scientist at SpaceX working on Starlink to develop metrics and tools assessing network scaling and effectiveness. Responsible for building infrastructure and software to analyze data from satellites and ground systems.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, tools, processes, and custom software to objectively assess growth areas for the Starlink program
Lead technical investigations about chronic network-level issues
Automate the aggregation of metrics and detection of widespread application issues across Starlink
Establish and maintain relationships with key engineering stakeholders
Apply data analytics, models, and techniques to data products created by space vehicles
Build ground-based software systems that ingest, transform, and store data
Fuse data from multiple sources to create usable information
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceProfessional experience in analyticsExperience in custom ETL designExperience using AI tools to accelerate
Required
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)
Development experience in an object-oriented programming language (i.e. C, C++, Python)
Preferred
Professional experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning
Ability to take on projects that require taking initiative and developing new expertise
Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment that includes working with changing needs and requirements
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)
Experience in custom ETL design, implementation, and maintenance
Familiarity with the Open Systems Intercommunication (OSI) model and other common networking principles
