IT Network Infrastructure Technician
No salary listed
Mid
Brownsville, TX, USA
In PersonTravel to other SpaceX locations is required approximately 10–25% of the time.
IT OperationsNetwork Engineering & Administration
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship Required
About the job
Requirements
- A high school diploma or equivalency certificate is required.
- At least 2 years of experience installing, testing, troubleshooting, and repairing fiber optics, copper cabling including RF and Ethernet, network and telephony installations, and audio/video systems are required.
- The applicant must be able to pass Air Force background checks for Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg.
- A valid driver's license is required.
- The applicant must be able to distinguish between different colors and possess the manual dexterity needed to complete fine motor tasks.
- The applicant must be able to work at elevated heights and in tight spaces.
- The applicant must be able to stand and lift or carry materials or equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
- The applicant must be available to work overtime, nights, and weekends when required by mission milestones.
- The applicant must be able to work in extreme outdoor environments, including heat, cold, and rain, and may be exposed to fumes, odors, and noise.
- The applicant must satisfy ITAR eligibility requirements as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or person eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Responsibilities
- Install, terminate, test, troubleshoot, and document test results for fiber, network, audio, video, and radio-frequency cabling.
- Install, test, and troubleshoot audio, video, and radio-frequency equipment.
- Install cable pathway systems, including cable trays, cable racks, J-hooks, and D-rings.
- Install, terminate, test, label, and document horizontal, backbone, and other cables.
- Build out telecommunications and equipment rooms.
- Install connectors, connector pins, terminals, and lugs.
- Perform continuity checks and locate and correct wiring errors using measuring instruments.
- Investigate, diagnose, correct, and document instrumentation or system malfunctions.
- Perform complex technical assignments involving communications systems, instrumentation, and data acquisition and processing systems.
- Collaborate with team members to troubleshoot failures and issues derived from test data.
- Read and interpret planning documents, schematics, wiring diagrams, specifications, drawings, manuals, blueprints, and engineering sketches.
Desired Qualifications
- At least 3 years of raceway installation experience, including conduit, cable tray, and PVC installation, is preferred.
- Ability to install, terminate, and test low-voltage and fiber-optic cables, including twisted-pair, coaxial, stranded, and solid-conductor cables, as well as single-mode and multimode fiber-optic cables.
- Knowledge of BICSI, National Electrical Code, and TIA/EIA industry standards; fiber types and interior and exterior usage; Cat5e, Cat6, and Cat6A data cabling; and cable pathways including conduit, fire penetrations, and cable trays.
- Knowledge of telecommunications network best practices and concepts, including network security, network architecture design, technical standards and deliverables, troubleshooting tools such as line analyzers, breakout boxes, and network traces, software and hardware installation and configuration, network hardware, and protocols such as TCP/IP, DLC, and asynchronous communications.
- Working knowledge of audio, video, and wireless systems and their physical delivery methods, including analog, digital, audio over IP, and voice over IP.
- Operational knowledge of oscilloscopes, multimeters, soldering wires and connectors, crimping tools, wire-stripping techniques, Ohm's law, continuity testing, military-type connector pinning, cable routing and tie wrapping, drilling and tapping holes, and junction-box construction.
- Experience with direct-current power supplies, direct-current to direct-current converters, heat-shrink tubing, cable harnessing, lacing, and strain-relief concepts.
- Experience with IP and HD-SDI video cameras and infrastructure.
- Comprehension of modern networking architecture and physical-layer interconnectivity requirements.
- Experience operating articulating boom lifts, forklifts, scissor lifts, and other worksite machinery.
About the company
SpaceX builds and launches reusable rockets and spacecraft for NASA, the military, and companies, and it runs Starlink, a satellite internet service for homes and businesses. In 2020, its Dragon capsule became the first privately built spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. Its Falcon 9 rocket lands its first stage so the booster can fly again, which cuts launch costs, while Starlink beams internet from low-orbit satellites to small dishes for a monthly fee. SpaceX also owns xAI, maker of the Grok chatbot and owner of the social network X, and is building Starship, a fully reusable rocket meant to carry people to the Moon and Mars. Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, and it is based in Starbase, Texas.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Starbase, Texas
Founded
2002
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What believers are saying
- Starlink demand keeps compounding: subscribers doubled to 12 million in the year to June 2026.
- Room to grow: SpaceX listed 2,693 open roles in October 2026, over a third of them for Starlink.
- Rivals rent its AI supercomputers: Claude maker Anthropic agreed in May 2026 to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion a month.
What critics are saying
- Stock grants swing hard: shares closed between $108 and $211 in the four months after the June 2026 IPO.
- Expect long weeks: 1,724 of SpaceX's 2,693 job posts in October 2026 mention extended hours and weekend work.
- AI spending outruns sales: SpaceX put $15.8 billion into AI data centers in the June 2026 quarter, double its revenue.
What makes SpaceX unique
- SpaceX is the world's busiest launcher by far: its 165 orbital launches in 2025 were nearly double China's total.
- Starlink carries the profits: it earned $1.7 billion in the June 2026 quarter, while rockets and AI lost $1.8 billion.
- Elon Musk has the final say: super-voting shares give him about 82% of shareholder votes after the June 2026 IPO.
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