Job Summary:
SpaceX is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars and is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer for their Starlink Growth Analytics & Automation Team. The role involves developing strategies, metrics, and tools for assessing the health of the Starlink business and extracting insights from data to optimize customer acquisition.
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.