# Mission Integration Engineer, Special Programs at SpaceX

- Company: SpaceX
- What the company does: SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, a16z and Founders Fund.
- Company website: https://www.spacex.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Hawthorne, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/8783846002?gh_jid=8783846002
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## About the role

As a member of our Mission Management team, you will own the integration of customer payloads onto the SpaceX payload platform from requirements definition through integrated test, flight, and on-orbit operations. You will work closely with technical disciplines across SpaceX, such as vehicle engineering, structures, avionics, thermal, software, flight reliability, and launch and space operations to close the payload-to-platform interface and to verify the mission can be flown safely.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or STEM discipline
- Ability to obtain a Top Secret SCI clearance
- Experience applying systems engineering methods (requirements, interfaces, verification, or integration and test)
- Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
- Note that an active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions, if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing
- Must be willing to travel (approximately 15%) to other SpaceX locations and payload integration sites, as necessary

Tags: Special Programs

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