Lab Architect

Responsibilities

• Drive Starlink’s integration engagements with 3rd party networking vendors with guidance/support from wider Architecture team
• Collaborate with Starlink Marketing and 3rd party integration peers to develop joint value propositions and technical solution guides to enable customers, and internal sales/channel teams
• Work closely with Starlink product engineering teams to onboard completed solutions into Starlink’s internal test environments
• Support the technical sales engagements of the broader team, answering customer questions specific to Starlink’s 3rd party integration efforts
• Work in partnership with our Marketing, Licensing, Government Affairs, Finance, Legal, and Product Engineering teams
• Consult with product engineering on best practices, reference architectures, and technical guides demonstrating integration details and value proposition of Starlink
• Represent Starlink at conferences and events

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline or 3+ years of professional working experience in lieu of a degree
• 3+ years of professional experience in technical sales
• 3+ years of professional hands-on experience building and deploying enterprise network infrastructure

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Industry recognized Computer Networking Certifications
• Demonstrated aptitude to learn new technical skills
• Coachable interpersonal and presentation skills
• Proficiency in troubleshooting using packet capture or TCP dump analysis
• Highly detail oriented, diligent, and hard working with excellent customer interface skills
• Coachable proficiency in one or many common domains of computer networking:
• Common IETF and 3GPP standards
• Network monitoring with sFlow, RFC 2544, Y.1564, TWAMP, POLQATCP, IPv4, IPv6, LACP, VLAN, DSCP, COS, DHCP, DNS, NAT, OSFP and BGP
• Tunneling methodologies including IPSEC, VXLAN, MPLS, and L2/L3VPNSD-WAN solutions
• Linux networking and user-space network stack

Additional Requirements

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time including to customer locations and other SpaceX locations
• This position is based in Redmond, WA and requires being onsite when not traveling with customers

Requirements

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.