Base Salary
$160k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, implementation, and operation of secure, scalable AI platforms and company-wide proxy systems.
- Own platform initiatives end to end, including technical strategy, implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term evolution.
- Onboard frontier models, expand compute resources, and optimize proxy performance, security, logging, and control.
- Build shared products, prompts, skills, infrastructure, documentation, training, and hands-on support to drive adoption.
- Develop tools for AI-powered code review, pull-request automation, safety guardrails, and other business-risk mitigation.
- Enable users to convert engineering problems and ideas into tested software, deployed applications, and trained models on managed compute.
- Define secure, effective applied-AI best practices and collaborate with ML research, security, operations, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and communicate the value and impact of platform capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience building production software, or 7+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience developing and operating production platforms such as AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems.
- Preferred experience building internal AI gateways, secure proxy systems, or MLOps platforms.
- Deep hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, security architecture, and integrations across multiple cloud and frontier model providers.
- Experience with model onboarding, compute orchestration, observability, and infrastructure for high-volume AI usage.
- Proficiency in Python and strong experience with additional languages such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Rust.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and highly reliable distributed systems.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements, including qualifying U.S. citizenship or immigration status or eligibility to obtain required authorizations.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan eligibility
- Three weeks of accrued paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave under company policy
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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.