Meteorologist (Launch Operations) is open at SpaceX in Starbase, TX. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $150K. Posted on Oct 21, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Serve as Launch Weather Officer (LWO) for orbital launch, return-to-launch-site, re-entry, recovery, and test operations—owning weather workflows from forecast, balloon, and sensor data through countdown, launch commit criteria, contingency response, and post-flight data review Develop new decision-support forecast tools, integrate probabilistic forecast information into operator tools, and train operators and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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