# Design Criteria Engineer (Starshield)

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. DESIGN CRITERIA ENGINEER (STARSHIELD) Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. On the Starshield Design Criteria Engineering team, you will ensure that our satellites achieve mission success with high reliability. This team draws from diverse engineering backgrounds to become deeply familiar with hardware from the vehicle system to individual components. As a design-focused member of this team, you will apply your technical expertise from initial conception of major design revisions and define the path through design maturation, validation, safe launch, and initial operation in orbit. This high-impact phase rewards creativity and innovation but demands fores

- **Id**: 3984268
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spacex-design-criteria-engineer-starshield-2>
- **Role**: Enterprise Apps
- **Role family**: Enterprise Apps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hawthorne, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:26:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T20:57:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7431
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- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Launch Services, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 66
- **Name**: SpaceX
- **Domain**: spacex.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/spacex>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 55
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.036
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 130000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 130000

## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes
- **Visual Basic** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T20:57:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 92
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T23:38:06Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 130000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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