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# Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack - Top Secret Clearance at SpaceX

Department: Special ProgramsEducation: education_required

Compensation

$160,000 – $225,000/yr

**Location**
: Hawthorne, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: Mar 24, 2026

## Description

SpaceX is hiring a Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack - Top Secret Clearance to lead a software engineering team developing full-stack solutions for flight-system analysis, prototypes, ground software, and operator user interfaces. The role owns the team’s delivery, roadmap, architecture, code reviews, testing, mission integration, and operations, while collaborating with customer and SpaceX teams. Candidates need a relevant bachelor’s degree, at least five years of full-stack development experience, experience with JavaScript or TypeScript, Python, Rust, or C++, database experience, and professional leadership experience, along with an active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance. The position pays $165,000 to $230,000 per year, with additional classified-program differential, benefits, and travel requirements.

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