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Quidient

SLAM Engineer

Columbia, MD

$175K - $230K/yr

Drive down latency and memory footprint on mobile hardware, offloading compute to GPU where possible. Direct experience with GPU programming (Metal shaders, CUDA kernels, or equivalent) is a strong ...

Slope

Software Engineer, Accelerators

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120 - $180/hr

About the Team The Kernels team at OpenAI builds the low-level software that accelerates our most ... Exposure to mobile accelerators is welcome, but experience enabling data center-scale AI hardware ...

Quidient

SLAM Engineer

Columbia, MD · On-site

$175K - $230K/yr

Drive down latency and memory footprint on mobile hardware, offloading compute to GPU where possible. Direct experience with GPU programming (Metal shaders, CUDA kernels, or equivalent) is a strong ...

OpenAI

Software Engineer, Accelerators

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$295K - $380K/yr

Develop kernels, sharding mechanisms, and system scaling strategies tailored to emerging ... Exposure to mobile accelerators is welcome, but experience enabling data center-scale AI hardware ...

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Flight Software Engineer (Starlink Mobile)

Redmond, WA • On-site

SpaceX
Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing • 1 - 5K employees

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Company rating: 8.7 out of 10

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$145K - $175K/yr

Full-time

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FLIGHT SOFTWARE ENGINEER (STARLINK MOBILE)

Starlink Mobile is SpaceX's next-generation mobile network, connecting human beings all around the globe anywhere they can see the sky. We are in the early days of one of the most ambitious mega projects humanity has ever undertaken.

Flight Software is where all the disciplines at SpaceX come together. As flight software engineers, we are fully responsible for our spacecraft from cradle to fiery grave: for turning an idea, then a collection of parts, into a living, breathing, spacecraft. We work closely with electrical, mechanical, RF, thermal, propulsion, and guidance and control engineers to design, build, and fly some of the most sophisticated spacecraft in the world at a scale no-one else approaches. We own the full stack from the bare metal microcontroller firmware that drives our custom silicon, to Linux kernels and drivers on our larger CPUs and FPGAs, to the realtime phased array control, network control, and vehicle control that flies our satellites.

We are a small, tight-knit team with a relentless focus on speed, simplicity, reliability, and performance. To succeed in this role you must be a technically excellent first-principles problem solver, a passionately curious self-starter with a love for solving hard problems quickly, simply, and permanently in high-impact situations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Develop mission critical control software to fly thousands of spacecraft in one of the harshest environments known to man.
  • Develop cutting edge RF software to drive some of the most advanced phased arrays in existence.
  • Develop high performance network software to turn thousands of nodes hurtling around Earth at Mach 20 into the world's largest mobile network.
  • Own your work end-to-end from prototyping and design through implementation, test, deployment, and support.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or other engineering, math, or science discipline.
  • Experience in C, C++, Rust, or other low-level systems programming language.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Experience writing bare-metal software for embedded devices.
  • Experience writing Rust, C, or C++ in a production environment.
  • Experience with network protocols, operating systems, and compilers.
  • Experience owning software through design, development, testing, and deployment.
  • Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with rapidly changing needs and requirements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Extreme curiosity and a burning desire to push systems to the physics limit of simplicity and performance.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:    

Software Engineer/Level I: $125,000.00 - $145,000.00/per year    
Software Engineer/Level II: $145,000.00 - $175,000.00/per year    

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees in Washington State accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law. Company shuttles are offered to employees for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday.

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