Job Summary:
SpaceX is a company focused on developing technologies for human life on Mars and is currently deploying Starlink, an advanced broadband internet system. The Sr. Data Engineer will be responsible for developing strategies and tools to assess the health of the Starlink business, extracting insights from data, and optimizing customer acquisition processes.
Responsibilities:
• Build high-visibility, high-confidence, statistically-based dashboards and analytics tools to uncover new or breaking trends in customer growth or experience
• Transform insights into action items for business and engineering teams, based on statistically-driven evidence
• Develop and implement monitoring systems and strategies to quickly detect trends and regressions as they arise
• Work closely with software and production teams to optimize user experience
• Develop and validate models to forecast customer acquisition
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, physics, mathematics, statistics, or a STEM discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience building solutions with Python and SQL
• 5+ years of professional experience with statistical modeling and machine learning algorithms
• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Preferred:
• 8+ years of professional experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning
• Experience building predictive models and machine learning pipelines (clustering analysis, anomaly detection, survival analysis, time series models)
• Experience with data visualization skills, including experience in geospatial data representations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with developing and deploying tools used for data analysis, machine learning, and statistical modeling
• Demonstrated capability to parse technical subjects on a deep level
• Demonstrated ability to jump into ill-defined problem spaces and drive positive outcomes
• Self-starter attitude, energy, and the ability to communicate effectively across business and technical disciplines
• Experience designing and utilizing relational database (SQL)
• Background in statistics or computational physics
Company:
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft to facilitate space exploration. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Hawthorne, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.