Sr. RAN Software Engineer (Starlink Mobile) is open at SpaceX in Palo Alto, CA. The posting gives a salary of $175K - $280K. Posted on Aug 5, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Lead the design, development, and maintenance of CI/CD test automation frameworks for eNB/gNB feature validation, including functional, performance, interoperability, and regression testing Analyze UE and eNB/gNB logs to debug and root-cause RAN issues, and collaborate with developers to resolves issues and drive feature improvements Build software tools and data pipelines to analyze RAN performance and optimize…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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