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Government Project Engineer

SpaceX· Falcon and Dragon Engineering & Product Management
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Hawthorne, CA$100k - $117.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

SpaceX Government Project Engineer role supporting government missions, ensuring customer trust, 100% mission success, and coordination across NASA LSP, NASA Crew, and NSSL with multiple stakeholders and site travel.

Responsibilities

  • Lead one or more technical subject areas, managing 30+ subject matter experts across 3 different customer organizations (NASA LSP, NASA Crew, and NSSL)
  • Prepare and manage project schedules in collaboration with customers and internal SpaceX teams across Falcon programs
  • Maintain a systems-level understanding of the vehicle, with the ability to deep dive into specific technical topics as needed
  • Create and present clear and concise technical arguments to both external and internal teams
  • Negotiate, review, and ensure implementation of all customer maintenance, launch vehicle, and re-use requirements
  • Represent SpaceX in various customer-led meetings and forums
  • Manage vehicle changes for upcoming government, including notifying customers of any modifications
  • Track SpaceX and customer risks while developing and coordination mitigation plans in partnership with the customers
  • Travel to launch and test sites to support customer visits, tours, or engagements
  • Ensure launch vehicle readiness for government missions, coordinating across teams as needed
  • Analyze government and commercial customer requirements to determine compatibility with SpaceX products
  • Perform specialized analysis in support of verification activities; lead or participate in tests and demonstrations in support of requirement verification, including joint testing with customers
  • Interact with customers to describe designs and their function, answer high-level customer technical questions, without a responsible engineer present
  • Develop systems and applications to document SpaceX/customer interactions and feedback, and track customer approval workflow

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of hardware experience performing engineering, fabrication, assembly, or testing

Skills

Required:engineering project managementcommunications and negotiationcustomer relationship management
Nice to have:requirements development and verification planning

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation and holidays
  • paid sick leave
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • discretionary bonuses and potential long-term incentives
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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