Base Salary
$220k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize integrations between frontier AI models and government systems, platforms, and data environments
- Develop custom SDKs, APIs, developer tools, and documentation for government and enterprise developers
- Partner with agency stakeholders to gather requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate using real-world feedback
- Ship production-grade code and features with an emphasis on speed, simplicity, and measurable impact
- Collaborate with product, research, infrastructure, and legal/governance teams while upholding safety, transparency, and ethical standards
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another STEM discipline, or at least two years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree
- At least six years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications
- Strong Python proficiency; additional programming languages are a plus
- Experience with large language models, generative AI, or agentic systems
- Familiarity with government, public-sector, or regulated-industry technology environments
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, or API orchestration
- Experience with AI safety, governance, red-teaming, or responsible AI deployment is preferred
- Background in policy-adjacent technical roles, civic tech, public-interest technology, or open-source AI projects is preferred
- Ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete technical solutions
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility or obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan and other discounts and perks
- Three weeks of accrued paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave
- 20% travel to government sites may be required
- Extended hours and weekends may be required
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About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.