SpaceX
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-09-29, Skillenai has indexed 1,060 SpaceX job postings over the past 90 days (down 34% vs the prior 4 weeks). SpaceX appeared in 1,925 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-29
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Hiring at SpaceX
Weekly SpaceX job postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles SpaceX is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 284 | 26.8% |
| Full Stack Software Engineer | 55 | 5.2% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 50 | 4.7% |
| Security Software Engineer | 43 | 4.1% |
| Operations Engineer | 35 | 3.3% |
| Full Stack Engineer | 27 | 2.5% |
| Test Engineer | 23 | 2.2% |
| Application Software Engineer | 21 | 2.0% |
| Security Engineer | 18 | 1.7% |
| Embedded Security Engineer | 17 | 1.6% |
Skills in SpaceX job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 657 | 62.0% |
| C++ | 320 | 30.2% |
| Continuous integration | 245 | 23.1% |
| Linux | 228 | 21.5% |
| Go | 213 | 20.1% |
| testing | 207 | 19.5% |
| Java | 207 | 19.5% |
| Version control | 196 | 18.5% |
| Kubernetes | 179 | 16.9% |
| SQL | 152 | 14.3% |
| C | 150 | 14.2% |
| Bazel | 143 | 13.5% |
| Scala | 143 | 13.5% |
| Distributed systems | 134 | 12.6% |
| C# | 130 | 12.3% |
Where SpaceX is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne | 352 | 33.2% |
| Redmond | 279 | 26.3% |
| Bastrop | 172 | 16.2% |
| Palo Alto | 64 | 6.0% |
| Cape Canaveral | 30 | 2.8% |
| McGregor | 18 | 1.7% |
| Washington | 18 | 1.7% |
| Woodinville | 15 | 1.4% |
| Sunnyvale | 13 | 1.2% |
| Memphis | 12 | 1.1% |
Who works at SpaceX
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- python8%
- sql5%
- testing4%
- integration4%
- Thermal4%
- reliability3%
- Falcon 93%
- data analysis3%
- engineering efficiency2%
- Starship2%
- hand calculations2%
- Nx2%
- ground support equipment2%
- Loads2%
- documentation2%
- shock2%
Share of observed positions at SpaceX that list the skill.
Degree level
- Master21
- Bachelor19
- High School2
- Associate1
- PhD1
Field of study
- Mechanical Engineering3
- Statistics2
- Computer Science2
- Aeronautics and Astronautics1
- Aerospace Engineering1
- Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services1
- Business/Managerial Economics1
- Computer and Information Sciences1
Schools
- University of Michigan7
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo5
- Georgia Institute of Technology5
- Texas A&M University5
- University of Washington5
- Purdue University5
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign4
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
SpaceX in the news
1,925 news articles and 1,534 blog posts mentioned SpaceX in the last 90 days.
News
- OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testingtheguardian.com · September 28, 2026
- Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.thenewstack.io · September 28, 2026
- Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to secure AI agentsconstellationr.com · September 28, 2026
- ETF Bets on an AI ‘Doomsday’thedailyupside.com · September 28, 2026
- Tesla Delays Roadster 2 Reveal Againinnovation-village.com · September 28, 2026
- Trump’s AI Meeting With Tech CEOs Puts Innovation and Oversight in Focusinnovation-village.com · September 28, 2026
Blogs
- Top Weekly AI News – September 25, 2026aitalks.blog · September 25, 2026
- Sixty Degree Capital Extends Its Track Record as Five Portfolio Companies Enter the Public Markets in 2026canadiansme.ca · September 28, 2026
- xAi’s models to catch up OpenAI and Anthropic by year-endelectronicsweekly.com · September 28, 2026
- How a Changing D&O Environment May Signal Tighter Conditionsiamagazine.com · September 21, 2026
- Anthropic IPO 2026: What Investors Need To Know & How To Get Exposure Today With AI ETF AGIXkraneshares.com · September 25, 2026
- Apple's Mac Studio pushes frontier of AI hardwarearchive.thedeepview.com · September 22, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to SpaceX over the 90 days ending 2026-09-29; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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- 8e330bf66604684a
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- window_days
- 90
- profiles_as_of
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