Sr. Software Engineer, Full Stack (Data & Video Analysis)

<div class="content-intro"><p>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&nbsp;enabling human life on Mars.</p></div><p><strong>SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, FULL STACK (DATA &amp; VIDEO ANALYSIS)</strong></p> <p>The Vehicle Analysis Tooling team builds the applications that production, test, and flight depend on. You will own the full path: platforms that ingest and process high-volume engineering data, such as telemetry, sensor data, or video; the tools and interfaces engineers use to review that analysis and act on it; and the infrastructure those applications run on. These systems rarely sit in one specialty. Depth in data, video, or applied models is enough to start. Learning the rest quickly enough to ship it is part of the job.</p> <p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of full-stack applications and platforms used across production, test, and flight, including data processing that turns telemetry, sensor data, or video into analysis engineers can use and that feeds model inference.</li> <li>Work directly with vehicle, propulsion, test, manufacturing, and inspection engineers on their most important analysis problems, and judge success by time saved and problems caught.</li> <li>Build the internal tools and web interfaces engineers use to query, visualize, and act on engineering data and on the results of automated analysis.</li> <li>Profile and improve performance where engineers feel it: data processing, database queries, and interactive views of large telemetry or video. Set how the team measures that performance and holds it as volume grows.</li> <li>Take statistical models, computer vision, or large language models from evaluation into production review workflows for anomaly detection and inspection, and keep the quality of their results visible once they are in production.</li> <li>Move prototypes into production with automated tests, CI/CD, and a repeatable release process.</li> <li>Set the architecture and the practices the team uses for testing, CI/CD, observability, and code review.</li> <li>Own the infrastructure our applications run on, including deployments, monitoring, operations, capacity planning, and reliability.</li> <li>Operate the applications in production: respond to failures, restore service, and carry the fix into the software and into how the system is run. Raise the standard for monitoring and incident response as usage grows.</li> <li>Move across processing, interfaces, models, and operations, learn unfamiliar parts quickly enough to ship, and help other engineers do the same.</li> <li>Mentor other engineers and set technical direction for the software and for how it is operated.</li> </ul> <p><strong>BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or another scientific discipline, or 8+ years of professional software experience in lieu of a degree.</li> <li>5+ years of software development experience.</li> <li>3+ years of experience building and operating production applications or data systems, including full-stack development.</li> <li>3+ yearsexperience building production Python systems, including data processing, services, or user-facing application code.</li> <li>1+ leading technical work, including design reviews, project direction, and the quality of the code the team ships.</li> </ul> <p><span data-teams="true"><strong>PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Production experience with video platforms and their infrastructure, including ingest, storage, transcoding, playback, and review of high-volume engineering video.</li> <li>Strong familiarity with large language model tools and capabilities, including how they work and where they ca