Recovery Engineer (F9 Booster & Fairings)

SpaceX · Long Beach

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Company
SpaceX
Location
Long Beach
Salary
$100,000.00 - $130,000.00
Posted
September 9, 2026

About this job

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. RECOVERY ENGINEER (F9 BOOSTER & FAIRINGS) SpaceX operates the world’s first automated unmanned vessel certified to land orbital class vehicles. This role has the opportunity to work with an elite team to develop and execute the processing operations of landed Falcon 9 boosters and fairings. Recovering and re-flying rockets is historic and has changed the industry for the future…and you could be a part of that team.

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