Base Salary
$210k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for SpaceX’s AI platform and security infrastructure.
- Own high-impact initiatives across strategy, design, implementation, and company-wide rollout.
- Onboard frontier models, scale compute, and optimize proxy systems for security, efficiency, logging, and control.
- Establish standards, mentor senior engineers, build reusable assets, and drive adoption of AI-first workflows.
- Convert engineering knowledge into production software, trained models, automated systems, and managed reliable compute.
- Develop risk-mitigation capabilities including AI code review, automated pull request tools, and safety systems.
- Set best practices and technical direction for secure, lean, and effective applied AI.
- Advise leadership and collaborate cross-functionally to align platform capabilities with company goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline plus 7+ years of professional experience building and scaling production platforms, or 9+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale AI/ML platforms, internal developer platforms, or mission-critical infrastructure.
- Experience architecting and scaling AI gateways, secure proxy layers, or enterprise MLOps platforms serving hundreds of users.
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes ecosystems, zero-trust security models, and multi-cloud or frontier-model integrations.
- Deep expertise in MLOps, distributed compute, model lifecycle management, observability, and reliable systems.
- Mastery of Python and broad expertise across modern languages and tooling.
- Extensive infrastructure-as-code experience and a record of technical leadership, mentoring, and building shared platforms and standards.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver transformative, responsible AI and automation solutions at organizational scale.
- Must satisfy applicable U.S. ITAR citizenship, residency, refugee, asylee, or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan, potential discretionary bonuses, and long-term incentives may be available.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays annually.
- Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy.
- Applicants must meet U.S. ITAR authorization requirements.
- The posting does not state a remote or hybrid work arrangement.
Tech Stack
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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.