SpaceX recruits a “Spaceport Mixologist” to make cocktails

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is looking for a “spaceport mixologist” who can brew space-themed drinks next to the company’s sprawling rocket factory in South Texas.

While space itself is unlikely to be in their future, an experienced bartender – who will have one of the coolest job titles – will be asked to join the hundreds of employees working on the massive rocket system. SpaceX’s starship in rural Boca Chica, Texas. The mixologist will likely work in the tiny house next to SpaceX’s budding spaceport that Musk calls the Starbase Tiki Bar and sling tiki drinks like the test pilot or the jet pilot.

“Experience combining drinks with a themed menu” is on the list of preferred skills. “SpaceX has a number of outlets and foodservice formats serving our workforce and is looking to add many more. We are looking for candidates who have superior mixology experience with a specialization in full service resorts, bars and restaurants, ”the job description states.

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Also on SpaceX’s Boca Chica site is a Restaurant and another bar in one of the company’s rocket building towers that overlooks the entire spaceport. Musk calls this bar “High Bar” – in the “high bay” of the tower – and described it as a “futuristic bar” with “360 degree windows and a glass floor overlooking the rocket factory” . EspaceX threw a party at the High Bar in June.

SpaceX has dozens of restaurant jobs at locations in Texas and California to feed the company’s growing workforce. Cooks, baristas, and sous chefs are some of the open positions in the food service category of SpaceX’s jobs page. While SpaceX’s food establishments primarily serve its own employees, the public might not be left behind for long. “I super support the public spaces around our production and launch sites, wherever it can be done safely,” Musk tweeted in January. “When covid passes, we will open our restaurant to the public and find ways to allow limited access to the High Bar.”

It’s not uncommon for large tech and aerospace companies to employ chefs and baristas to serve their employees. From Facebook to Google to Boeing, they all have chefs and baristas, according to LinkedIn, and SpaceX has multiple chefs and baristas as well. Corn The edge was unable to find evidence of in-house mixologists at other companies. One of Musk’s other companies, Neuralink, just built his own bar, but it’s unclear whether the brain interface startup employs its own mixologist.

SpaceX’s Boca Chica site is in its infancy, but it could someday send humans to the moon – the company won a contract from NASA in April to launch America’s first astronauts to the lunar surface since 1972. But before that moonshine hits, and possibly before the bar and tiki restaurant open to the public, SpaceX has a long way to go in “maturing” the most critical functions of Musk’s starbase.