SpaceX has posted a job listing for a natural gas trader based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to lead a new trading team focused on the company’s growing energy needs.
The role requires on-site presence with up to 50% travel, including international assignments, and involves establishing and managing physical and financial natural gas transactions. Responsibilities include originating, structuring, and executing trades while responding to market signals driven by fundamentals, weather, fuel costs, emissions, and regulatory factors. Candidates must pass Air Force background checks for Cape Canaveral access.
The position seeks a bachelor’s degree holder with at least four years of experience in natural gas or broader energy commodity trading, energy markets analysis, or related engineering and finance roles.
The hiring comes as SpaceX expands its energy infrastructure to support operations, including plans to build gas-fired power plants for a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas developed in partnership with Tesla Inc. The facility’s power demand, alongside broader industrial expansion, has intensified the need for new gas plants to meet surging electricity requirements.
SpaceX’s Starship rocket also relies on super-chilled methane—a key component of natural gas—as propellant, further tying its operations to natural gas markets.
