SpaceX
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-11-05, Skillenai has indexed 718 SpaceX job postings over the past 90 days (down 44% vs the prior 4 weeks). SpaceX appeared in 2,175 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-05
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Hiring at SpaceX
Weekly SpaceX job postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles SpaceX is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 142 | 19.8% |
| Full Stack Software Engineer | 39 | 5.4% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 31 | 4.3% |
| Security Engineer | 23 | 3.2% |
| Security Software Engineer | 22 | 3.1% |
| Operations Engineer | 21 | 2.9% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 20 | 2.8% |
| Network Engineer | 18 | 2.5% |
| Embedded Software Engineer | 16 | 2.2% |
| Test Engineer | 15 | 2.1% |
Skills in SpaceX job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 457 | 63.6% |
| C++ | 189 | 26.3% |
| Go | 159 | 22.1% |
| Continuous integration | 153 | 21.3% |
| Linux | 151 | 21.0% |
| Java | 124 | 17.3% |
| Version control | 122 | 17.0% |
| testing | 115 | 16.0% |
| Kubernetes | 110 | 15.3% |
| SQL | 96 | 13.4% |
| Bazel | 95 | 13.2% |
| Scala | 88 | 12.3% |
| continuous delivery | 87 | 12.1% |
| C# | 82 | 11.4% |
| make | 74 | 10.3% |
Where SpaceX is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne | 254 | 35.4% |
| Redmond | 139 | 19.4% |
| Bastrop | 112 | 15.6% |
| Palo Alto | 49 | 6.8% |
| Washington | 35 | 4.9% |
| Memphis | 22 | 3.1% |
| Cape Canaveral | 20 | 2.8% |
| McGregor | 9 | 1.3% |
| Vandenberg Village | 5 | 0.7% |
| Bellevue | 4 | 0.6% |
Who works at SpaceX
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- python8%
- sql6%
- Thermal4%
- testing4%
- integration4%
- reliability3%
- data analysis3%
- Falcon 93%
- engineering efficiency2%
- Electrical2%
- ground support equipment2%
- Nx2%
- documentation2%
- interface definition2%
- Starship2%
- Loads2%
Share of observed positions at SpaceX that list the skill.
Degree level
- Bachelor35
- Master28
- High School6
- PhD2
Field of study
- Computer Science4
- Mechanical Engineering3
- Statistics3
- Aerospace Engineering2
- Aeronautics and Astronautics1
- Artificial Intelligence1
- Business/Managerial Economics1
- Computer and Information Sciences1
Schools
- University of Michigan10
- Purdue University10
- Georgia Institute of Technology8
- University of California, Berkeley7
- University of California, Los Angeles6
- University of Washington6
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo5
SpaceX in the news
2,175 news articles and 1,562 blog posts mentioned SpaceX in the last 90 days.
News
- What Happens When the AI Boom Slows Downbidclub.ai · November 4, 2026
- Anthropic Names CommSec and Seven Other Brokers for Australian IPO Retail Offerthecircuitry.to · November 3, 2026
- OpenAI to Acquire Pierre Computer, Folding Its Code Storage Into Codexthecircuitry.to · November 4, 2026
- OpenAI says its AI pipeline built 948 Linux kernel root exploits for $1.2Mthecircuitry.to · November 5, 2026
- OpenAI releases Images 2.6 with GIFs and two API modelsthecircuitry.to · November 5, 2026
- China’s Largest Startup Deal Ever Lifts Global Venture Funding To $59B In Octobernews.crunchbase.com · November 3, 2026
Blogs
- MAN AND ROBOTS: Trump’s Flawed AI-to-SI Rebrand, Sam Altman’s Biopic Movie Verdict, & Anthropic’s Premature Robot Rights for Claudemarsmag.substack.com · October 9, 2026
- 2026-10-10 Briefingalobbs.com · October 10, 2026
- Trump told Jensen Huang AI safety is a "hoax" while his family sells the Chinese AI he says it helpstheinference.org · September 16, 2026
- Musk Concedes Anthropic Leads Grok, Then Orders 660,000 GPUs Before Year-Endtheinference.org · September 29, 2026
- Subscribers call Anthropic's caution a cartel weeks before a $2 trillion listingtheinference.org · September 29, 2026
- The Anthropic ETF holds no Anthropic, and still out-raised Harbor's other four AI fundstheinference.org · September 29, 2026
How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to SpaceX over the 90 days ending 2026-11-05; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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