# Propulsion Software Engineer (Falcon Engineering)

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. PROPULSION SOFTWARE ENGINEER (FALCON ENGINEERING) The Falcon Engineering team is dedicated to delivering Falcon and its payloads to orbit rapidly and reliably. As a Propulsion Software Engineer, you enable the long-term success of Falcon and its Merlin engines, improve hardware reliability, and remove recurring, time-consuming work from engineers’ plates so they can focus on hard engineering. You do this by building agentic AI systems, MCP servers, RAG-based search, and traditional automation where it is the right solution. You own problems end-to-end: scoping the solution with the engineers who have the problem, rolling it out, measuring the time it saves, and maintaining it as the vehicle and processes evolve. We are looking for engineers with hands-on hardware experience (engine test, fluid systems, or structures) who can code, so that the tools they build reflect how the hardware actually behaves an

- **Id**: 3711265
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spacex-propulsion-software-engineer-falcon-engineering>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hawthorne, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T19:22:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T13:46:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6767
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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**: 56
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.036
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 90
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 160000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 160000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Falcon** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **FastAPI** — Optional: yes
- **Flask** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **NumPy** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes
- **SciPy** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes
- **Time Series** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T23:18:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 90
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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