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Embedded Software Engineer, Data Center Engineering (Starmind)

SpaceX · Bastrop, TX

Posted Oct 6, 2026

Est. total comp~$201K–$317K

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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.

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DATA CENTER ENGINEERING (STARMIND)

The Data Center Engineering team designs training and inference compute clusters from first principles, pushing thermal, electrical, and optical systems to the limit of physics. We operate as a highly cross disciplinary team comprised of mechanical, electrical, optical, and software engineers, all working to maximize the efficiency, reliability, and deployment speed of terrestrial computing to serve rapidly scaling demand.

As an Embedded Software Engineer on our team, you will design, validate, and ship code that reliably and autonomously manages hundreds of thousands of coherently connected GPUs. Your software will span the entire hardware stack from individual firmware ICs up through cluster aggregation networking, ensuring our compute fabric operates at peak efficiency and gracefully handles various fault conditions. To empirically define the limit of physics in our computing hardware, you will also work closely with mechanical, electrical, and optical engineers to develop automated hardware test environments for thermal, radiation, and power testing.

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