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# Mission Integration Engineer, Mission and Ground Systems - Top Secret Clearance

- **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- **Location:** Los Angeles County, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Network Interface Controllers, Internet Protocol, Network Architecture, Networking Basics, Rapid Prototyping Process, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Data Processing, Computer Networking Systems, Integration Tests, Information Technology, Routing & Switching
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/981a288e-216f-444d-a7a4-31973b846a4f

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in a engineering or science discipline.
 * 1+ years of software engineering or electrical engineering, working hands-on with hardware or software technical projects.
 * Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q Clearance.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

 * Familiarity with USG processes and software systems.
 * Experience coordinating hardware or infrastructure deployments, including in classified or government-controlled environments.
 * Familiarity with networking fundamentals (e.g. IP networking, switching/routing concepts, etc).
 * Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and deliver reliable and expeditious results across multiple parallel priorities.
 * Highly detail oriented, hardworking, and professional with excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
 * Spacecraft mission design, development, integration, and/or test experience.
 * Strong penchant for innovation in process improvement and system design.
 * Capacity to balance conflicting opinions and manage expectations between multiple teams and customers.

## Description

As a member of our Mission Management team, you will help tackle new technical problems from initial requirements verification through rapid prototyping, integrated test, and operational deployment.

You'd work within a team of other Mission Integration Engineers and Mission Managers, on the same program and across related efforts, to ensure total alignment of your work. You would also work closely with disciplines across SpaceX such as software, information technology, and payload integration to ensure safe and successful mission completion.

You'll contribute to the performance and execution of programs within the special programs portfolio while specifically focusing on the mission specific systems that drive, manage, and provide user insight into those programs. Based on customer requirements and SpaceX's system capabilities, you'll develop system specifications, interface control documentation, and infrastructure plans. This work will cover a number of technical disciplines including space system command and control, operational planning, data processing, compute and networking infrastructure, integrated mission planning, payload integration, and the secure implementation and execution of each of these discipline areas. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter and is hungry to do work that matters., * Serve as the customer interface at meetings, tests, and reviews to develop operations plans, design missions, and participate in real world operations.

 * Ensure contract deliverables are completed on-time and distill customer requirements into actionable development objectives.
 * Work with internal and external stakeholders to drive development. Collaborate with subsystem representatives across team boundaries to consider all necessary trades and ensure end-to-end mission success.
 * Support all phases of the program from development, initial proposal, through successful test, flight, and on-orbit commissioning. This will include educating the customer on our designs and methodologies.
 * Own ground segment interface and architecture design, including compute infrastructure, network architecture, and software systems.
 * Support in-person integration efforts (forward deployed engineering) with external stakeholders and customers.