Sr. Automation & Controls Engineer (Starship) is open at SpaceX in Cape Canaveral, FL. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $193K. Posted on Jul 15, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Participate in the design and development of new and existing control systems critical to the launch organization Architect, write, and debug PLC code, emphasizing generating organized, structured, documented, maintainable, and reusable code for manufacturing applications Design and implement the controls network infrastructure and interfaces to data acquisition systems trading cost, complexity and redundancy…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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