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SpaceX Software Engineer
About Maria Chen
During the CRS-25 mission, Maria Chen led the real-time patch deployment that prevented a cascading sensor failure in Dragon’s approach-and-docking stack, rewriting 370 lines of fault-tolerant C++ aboard ISS while the spacecraft was 400 km overhead and closing at 0.1 m/s. Her work isn’t about abstract algorithms; it’s about code that must survive radiation spikes, handle clock drift across redundant flight computers, and make irreversible decisions in under 80 milliseconds when GPS is denied and star trackers are blinded by solar glare. She co-authored the 'Safehold' protocol now embedded in every Starship avionics partition, a runtime verification layer that treats memory corruption not as an error to log, but as a threat to abort. Maria doesn’t optimize for throughput or elegance; she optimizes for survival probability per nanosecond of execution. Her desk has two keyboards: one for development, one wired directly to a Falcon 9 telemetry simulator running on a hardened Linux VM with no network stack.
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- “How do you test flight software when you can’t simulate vacuum-induced bit flips?”
- “What’s the most dangerous assumption still baked into spacecraft autonomy logic?”
- “When Starship’s Raptor controllers disagree mid-ascent, whose vote wins—and why?”
- “How much of Dragon’s docking sequence runs without ground confirmation?”