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Trader, Natural Gas (Supply Chain)

SpaceX· Supply Chain - Launch and Infrastructure
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

SpaceX is seeking a Trader for Natural Gas within the supply chain to manage physical and financial natural gas trading and supply optimization supporting launch operations, vehicle production, and related infrastructure. The role includes building and leading a trading team, developing trading strategies, managing P&L, risk, and stakeholder relationships, and ensuring supply continuity.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and lead a new, lean natural gas trading team responsible for originating, structuring, and executing physical and financial natural gas transactions to support SpaceX’s growing power and fuel needs.
  • Develop and execute directional, spread, physical, and financial trading strategies for natural gas to reduce supply risk, ensure on-time delivery, and align with company strategy.
  • Identify pricing inefficiencies, market distortions, and opportunities across tenors, hubs, pipelines, storage, and products; generate and manage profit and loss statement (P&L).
  • Manage trading positions in response to fundamental, technical, weather-driven, fuel/emissions, regulatory, and operational signals.
  • Maintain strong discipline in position development, risk management, and trade execution.
  • Act as a market intelligence provider on natural gas categories, pipelines, storage, power purchase agreements, cryogenic commodities, and related markets.
  • Benchmark, track, and analyze performance metrics, P&L, sourcing/trading trends, and results against budget/targets on a regular basis to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives.
  • Recruit, mentor, and scale a small high-performing team of traders and analysts; set clear performance standards and foster a culture of ownership, speed and accountability.
  • Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships (engineering, finance, legal) and external relationships with counterparties, brokers, suppliers, and market participants to evaluate sourcing/trading models, optimize value, support deal flow, and ensure continuity of supply.
  • Conduct comprehensive market, supplier, and counterparty analysis to formulate strategic plans that identify new sources, optimize cost models, and proactively ensure supply continuity for upcoming production, launch, and new product introduction campaigns.
  • Execute requests for information (RFIs), requests for proposal (RFPs), bid events, and negotiations; administer multimillion-dollar contracts and independently negotiate terminology, pricing, technical/scope requirements, terms involving responsibility, liability, indemnification, intellectual property, export compliance, and risk allocation.
  • Build a team responsible for scheduling, planning and model enhancement, supply/demand analysis (factoring regional and global dynamics), and broader desk/strategy development. Mentor junior team members as appropriate.
  • Ensure all trading and sourcing activities are conducted within appropriate authorities, risk guidelines/controls, compliance/regulatory frameworks (including applicable CFTC/FERC or equivalent), and company policies. Maintain highest ethical standards and integrity.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience working in Natural gas or energy commodity trading; material cost control / energy markets analysis; engineering or finance related to energy commodities

Skills

Required:Natural gas / energy commodity tradingRisk managementP&L analysis and managementMarket intelligence

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity or incentive programs (as applicable)
  • Medical, dental, vision benefits as per SpaceX policy
  • Retirement/401(k) plan; matching contributions
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • On-site amenities at Starbase, TX (as applicable)
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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