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How SpaceX hires
Truth index
A 91/100
Median time to fill
84 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
15%
Reposted roles
0%
SpaceX scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 20 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 15% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 84 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
SpaceX is an American aerospace manufacturer and launch services provider founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with the goal of making life multiplanetary. It developed the reusable Falcon 9, now by far the most flown orbital rocket in the world, the Dragon capsule that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, and Starship, the fully reusable super-heavy vehicle intended for lunar and Mars missions. The company also operates Starlink, a satellite constellation of thousands of spacecraft providing broadband to consumers, aircraft, ships and militaries, which has become its largest source of revenue.
News
SpaceX Is Retiring Crew Dragon, Forcing NASA to Bet Big on Boeing's Troubled Starliner
What could possibly go wrong?
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SpaceX lands $946 million NASA deal, station contract hits $5.9 billion
The latest award will cover three more astronaut missions, for a total of 17 flights, NASA says.
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SpaceX Stock Is Down 33% From Its High. Here's Why Morgan Stanley Thinks There's 106% Upside From Here.
SpaceX's valuation now hovers just below $2 trillion.
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SpaceX Stock Is Down 28% From Its All-Time High. Here's What $10,000 Invested Today Could Be Worth by 2031.
After a blockbuster 2026 debut, where will SpaceX be in 2031?
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SpaceX scores another $950 million from NASA for 3 more crewed flights to ISS
SpaceX is getting an extension to an existing contract that will allow three additional crewed Dragon flights to the International Space Station.
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Musk's long-time backer is giving SpaceX stock to its investors
Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.
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Space Force gives SpaceX latitude on design of $2.3 billion satellite network
Space Force gives SpaceX latitude on design of $2.3 billion satellite network Space Force gives SpaceX latitude on design of $2.3 billion satellite network
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SpaceX pushes next Starship launch back to Sept. 28, a 6-day delay for megarocket
SpaceX is now targeting Sept. 28 for Starship
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at SpaceX over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
253
Postings analysed
1,551
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python55%
SQL31%
C++27%
C#12%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js8%
Angular8%
Ray1%
Flink1%
Databases
PostgreSQL10%
CockroachDB1%
MySQL1%
ClickHouse1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux15%
Kubernetes13%
Power BI13%
Windows8%
AI & ML
LLM2%
Grok<1%
Falcon<1%
VLM<1%
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253 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$40k – $355k
Open positions
1157
1121
Jobs
Intern
1.1%
Junior
41.9%
Middle
12%
Senior
35.8%
Staff
6.2%
Principal
2.5%
Architect
0.4%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 12 | $58k | $48k – $83k |
| Junior | 470 | $140k | $48k – $230k |
| Middle | 135 | $123k | $48k – $255k |
| Senior | 401 | $215k | $54k – $350k |
| Staff | 70 | $180k | $86k – $290k |
| Principal | 28 | $338k | $180k – $355k |
| Architect | 5 | $260k | $110k – $270k |
Highest paying role
Principal Software Engineer, CDN (Starlink)
$355k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at SpaceX
By role, level and city, against the market · 1157 jobs with pay
Products
Falcon Heavy
Falcon Heavy is the three-core heavy-lift variant used for large national security and interplanetary payloads. Its side boosters return and land for reuse like those of Falcon 9.
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Dragon
Dragon is the capsule that carries cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA and private missions. Crew Dragon restored American human launch capability in 2020.
spacex.com
Starlink
Starlink is SpaceX's low-earth-orbit broadband constellation serving consumers, businesses, aircraft, ships and defence customers. It has become the company's largest revenue line.
starlink.com
Starship
Starship is the fully reusable super-heavy launch system designed to carry a hundred tonnes to orbit and eventually crews to the Moon and Mars. NASA has selected a variant as the lunar lander for Artemis.
spacex.com
Falcon 9
Falcon 9 is SpaceX's partially reusable orbital rocket and the workhorse of the global launch market. Its recovered first stages have flown dozens of times each, collapsing the cost of access to orbit.
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People
Elon Musk
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Engineer
Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and directs both the business and its vehicle engineering. He also leads Tesla, xAI, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
Gwynne Shotwell
President & Chief Operating Officer
Gwynne Shotwell runs SpaceX's day-to-day operations and commercial business and has done so since 2008. She joined as employee number eleven and built the company's customer relationships.
Tom Mueller
Founding Employee & former Propulsion Chief
Tom Mueller was SpaceX's founding propulsion engineer and designed the Merlin engines that power Falcon 9. He left in 2020 to found the space propulsion company Impulse Space.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
57/100
Growing
Open positions
2444
237 opened / 121 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
78 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
27%
Operations
12%
Backend
10% ▼
Field & Service
10%
Hardware
7% ▼
DevOps
4%
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+157 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Teams to stack
Oct 2026
Added Context Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Oct 2026
Added Node JS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Electron to stack
Oct 2026
Added Cursor to stack
Oct 2026
Added Copilot to stack
Oct 2026
Added Layer 2 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Structured Outputs to stack
Aug 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Aug 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
42
Hiring now
22
Countries
7
Busiest office
Hawthorne
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Starbase
United States
HQ
Hawthorne
United States
Plant / site
Hawthorne, CA
636 open roles 406 posted in 90 days 39% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $157k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Field & Service
Bastrop
United States
Plant / site
Bastrop, TX
540 open roles 357 posted in 90 days 21% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $163k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service
Redmond
United States
Plant / site
Cape Canaveral, FL
470 open roles 286 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $178k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Hardware
Brownsville
United States
Plant / site
Hawthorne, CA
357 open roles 240 posted in 90 days 19% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $214k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Operations
Palo Alto
United States
Engineering / R&D
Cape Canaveral, FL
191 open roles 120 posted in 90 days 76% engineering 3% remote 500-1000 est. staff $226k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Hardware, AI/ML
Cape Canaveral
United States
Plant / site
Cape Canaveral, FL
112 open roles 87 posted in 90 days 19% engineering 200-500 est. staff $52k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service
Washington
United States
Plant / site
Palo Alto - 1450
96 open roles 78 posted in 90 days 52% engineering 200-500 est. staff $221k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Sales
McGregor
United States
Plant / site
McGregor, TX
64 open roles 49 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Operations
Irvine
United States
Engineering / R&D
Austin - 800
53 open roles 29 posted in 90 days 79% engineering 2% remote 50-200 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, HR
Woodinville
United States
Plant / site
Woodinville, WA
49 open roles 28 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 50-200 est. staff $124k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Operations
Austin
United States
Plant / site
Palo Alto - 1450
48 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 8% remote 50-200 est. staff $272k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Operations, Finance
Memphis
United States
Plant / site
Macrohard - Memphis, TN
40 open roles 38 posted in 90 days 30% engineering 10% remote 50-200 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Backend
Sunnyvale
United States
Engineering / R&D
Sunnyvale, CA
30 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 50-200 est. staff $242k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Backend, Industrial Engineering
College Station
United States
Plant / site
College Station, TX
17 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 6% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Operations
Canandaigua
United States
Regional office
Canandaigua, NY
11 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 10-50 est. staff $72k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Hardware, Operations
New York
United States
Sales office
New York City, NY
10 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $208k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Long Beach
United States
Plant / site
Long Beach, CA
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $143k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service
Bloomfield
United States
Plant / site
Bloomfield, CT
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Administrative, Industrial Engineering
Westminster
United States
Engineering / R&D
Westminster, MD
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff $48k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Administrative, Field & Service
Bellevue
United States
Regional office
Bellevue, WA
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Hospitality
Anderson
United States
Colossus - Memphis, TN
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Communications
Pecan Island
United States
Colossus - Memphis, TN
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Communications
Los Angeles
United States
Regional office
Remote - Los Angeles, CA
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
Bangalore, India
Jakarta
Indonesia
Regional office
Jakarta, Indonesia
Nairobi
Kenya
Regional office
Nairobi, Kenya
New Delhi
India
Regional office
New Delhi, India
Dublin
Ireland
Regional office
Dublin, Ireland
Las Vegas
United States
Regional office
Las Vegas, NV
Houston
United States
Regional office
Houston, TX
Luxembourg City
Luxembourg
Regional office
Luxembourg
Bakersfield
United States
Regional office
Bakersfield, CA
Abuja
Nigeria
Regional office
Abuja, Nigeria
Mountain View
United States
Regional office
Mountain View, CA
Placentia
United States
Regional office
Placentia, CA
Southaven
United States
Regional office
Macroharder - Southaven, MS
Republic
United States
Regional office
Korea, Republic of
Huntersville
United States
Regional office
Huntersville, NC
Oregon
United States
Regional office
Remote - OR
Kent
United States
Regional office
Kent, WA
Chantilly
United States
Regional office
Chantilly, VA
Jobs
$130k – $195k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redmond
Splunk
Windows
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≈ $90k – $179k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Terraform
Ansible
BGP
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≈ $91k – $181k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
Rust
C#
C++
Rest API
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP
Cybersecurity
PKI
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$130k – $155k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Go
Rust
C#
C++
Rest API
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP
Cybersecurity
PKI
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≈ $141k – $274k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
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≈ $117k – $226k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Memphis • Palo Alto
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$165k – $265k per year • Equity • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
Python
CI/CD
Linux
TCP/IP
VLAN
Management
Agile
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≈ $103k – $208k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Brownsville
Python
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
SQL
C#
Scala
Gradle
Databases
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
ActiveMQ
Apache Kafka
Frontend
Angular
React.js
npm
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Unix
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$115k – $140k per year • Equity • In office • Top Secret • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
Python
MATLAB
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≈ $95k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • High School Diploma • Memphis • Brownsville
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Terraform
Ansible
GitOps
Windows
VLAN
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≈ $118k – $213k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Memphis
Python
Windows
DNS
DHCP
Wi-Fi
BGP
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$125k – $160k per year • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Hawthorne
Python
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
VHDL
Perl
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Financials
Total raised
$4.9B
Latest round
Secondary Market
Funding rounds
4
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secondary Market | 2025 | $1.3B | $350B |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $750M | $137B |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $1.9B | $46B |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2015 | $1B | $12B |
Key Investors
a16z
Andreessen Horowitz joined SpaceX's growth rounds as valuations climbed past a hundred billion dollars. The firm invests broadly in aerospace and defence technology.
a16z.com
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital participated in SpaceX's later private financings. The firm is among the largest institutional holders of the company.
sequoiacap.com
Founders Fund
Founders Fund made one of the first outside investments in SpaceX in 2008, when the company was close to failure. It has backed nearly every subsequent round.
foundersfund.com
Fidelity
Fidelity co-invested with Google in SpaceX's 2015 round and has participated in later financings. The asset manager holds the stake across several of its funds.
fidelity.com
Google
Google and Fidelity together invested one billion dollars in SpaceX in 2015 to fund the Starlink programme. The stake made Google one of the company's larger outside shareholders.
google.com