Mission Integration Engineer, Cybersecurity - Top Secret Clearance

Space

X was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today Space

X is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Starshield leverages Space

X's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.

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 Space

X such as software, flight reliability and payload integration to ensure safe and successful mission completion.

You’ll contribute to the performance and execution of satellite programs while specifically focusing on the aspects that keep our systems secure. Our ideal candidate is a self-starter and is hungry to do work that matters.

• Plan and execute compliance and certification tasks with partnering U.S. government entities
  • Produce accreditation and authorization deliverables on a tight timeline that comply with applicable regulations
  • Collaborate with Space
    
    X technical departments to prepare design, analysis, and test data packages and briefings for government representatives
  • Identify, develop handling plans, and drive to closure technical issues with designs, analysis or tests that would impact customer requirements
  • Work closely with Space
    
    X technical departments to develop technical rationales, mitigate technical risks, and ensure product deliveries are on schedule
  • Organize and lead program milestone reviews, technical interchange meetings, and regular working group meetings
  • Negotiate, develop, and ensure timely delivery of technical products and customer data requests
  • Coordinate certification tasks and requirements with technical teams so that they can plan their tasks appropriately to meet customer expectations and maintain schedule
  • Maintain configuration control of the certified flight configuration. Coordinate and gain approval from the government on engineering changes to that baseline
• Collaborate with security and engineering teams to design and build high‑assurance space systems and advanced ground networks
• Act as a security liaison to customers and mission stakeholders to develop security requirements for future Space
  
  X products
• Drive design and architectural decisions to ensure requirements are met while also leveraging Space
  
  X's core technologies.
• 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.
• 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.

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• 2+ years of security software or security management experience
• Technical project management experience

• Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance
• Experience in exploit development and mitigation
• Fundamental understanding of network protocols, including the TCP/IP stack
• Knowledge of Linux operating system security
• Understanding of modern cryptographic primitives and how to use them to secure systems
• Experience contributing security improvements to established codebases
• Experience developing high assurance systems for space-based applications
• Experience interfacing with external customers and communicating key technical concepts…