Congrats! Looks like they stuck the landing. Marks the 60th anniversary of first American in space: Alan Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 mission ;)
Wanna work with us? Check out this role on my team - aerospace experience is not required: https://grnh.se/25a344122us
If that's not your flavor, we have others: https://www.spacex.com/careers/index.html?department=Softwar...
> Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends
I appreciate that they're upfront about that.
All hand meeting Sunday 1 AM.
I'm not completely sure that a web developer doing typical frontend work would consider "being in the same company as people building rockets" to be exciting enough to justify the extended hours and weekends thing. For a mechanical engineer getting to practice the pinnacle of mechanical engineering? Yeah, I get it. For react work? Maybe not so much.
Spacex: the electron app allowing us to control our life support systems via touch screen crashed, we're going to die.
If you’re at the point in your life where you can make major sacrifices to a greater cause I’d say this is a fantastic opportunity.
Disclaimer: I’ve have no affiliation to SpaceX, I just believe in their mission.
On the flip side, you’re making major sacrifices for the direct benefit of one of the richest men on the planet.
I get it, in Space there are no weekends or nights. People working on Mars missions have to work weird hours etc
But no, I wouldn't work at "infinite crunch" places
If you are the only person in the world with your skillset, you can maybe get away with this. But "web developer doing frontend work" is one of the more replaceable jobs out there, and it's only getting more competitive.
Don't underestimate the hunger of others in the marketplace. Just because you have a comfortable setup now doesn't mean this will always continue.
Hit me up when EU nationals can apply for the more interesting positions.
If not for this, I would have applied years ago. Your company is changing the world and I just wish I could be part of it.
I sometimes wonder what "or eligible to obtain the required authorizations" means. Does that just mean that SpaceX has to sponsor the clearance process for you?
I remember reading another thread where they were talking about one or two non-US people working there, it would be nice if they elaborated more on what the process is for foreigners and maybe had some profiles of non-US people in their employee gallery. Even confirmation from a SpaceX person here that they do have people like that would be nice :)
For stuff that goes beyond just being a US Citizen or Permanent Resident with no criminal record:
If they want you to do an SF-86 with the US OPM for a Secret or better clearance, it really means "if you even THINK you have something negative in your personal background, don't waste our time or yours in applying"
(reference: I'm one of the peoples whose full set of personal data was stolen in the OPM data breach)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
Not really in any way SpaceX specific, but this is something you will commonly see if applying with any large defense contractor/US-based aerospace industry firm.
They care about blackmail material, oaths to other governments, felonies, and not a lot else.
It's true that almost any randomly chosen member of the DoD can get a regular 'secret' clearance for things that aren't especially super sensitive (I've met some very immature 20 year olds who only had Secret probably by virtue of the fact they were too young to have made any major mistakes in their life yet), but when you go beyond that, the requirements are greater.
Re: being flamingly out and kinky, the key part there is out. This isn't the 1950s were getting blackmailed over being gay is a super high risk to somebody if they're already voluntarily flamingly out.
There are SpaceX jobs that require security clearance, too, but they're in the minority.
I studied Engineering, but made the choice to go into electronics rather than aerospace because of my nationality issues (see recent comments).
Yes. The brain of a non-US person is considered foreign soil for export control purposes.
Many others - made for interesting reading.
And also 1 day short of the 19th anniversary of SpaceX, which was founded on May 6th, 2002.