6 hours ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the health, performance, and stability of AI model integrations with government systems, platforms, and data environments.
- Build and maintain documentation, metrics, monitors, and troubleshooting tools to improve observability and operability.
- Respond to automated alerts and customer-reported problems, investigate incidents, and drive lasting fixes.
- Partner with government agency stakeholders and adjacent product teams to understand operational needs, prototype solutions, and iterate on feedback.
- Address technical debt in essential codebases and inform strategic investments in core products.
- Participate in business-hours and occasional weekend on-call rotations for resilient, high-uptime production systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or another STEM discipline, or 2+ years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree.
- 1+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications, with strong Python proficiency preferred.
- Experience with large language models, generative AI, or agentic systems in research, production, or applied engineering.
- 1+ years of experience working on enterprise applications serving more than 10,000 users across geographies and time zones.
- Familiarity with government or public-sector technology environments or regulated industries.
- Ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete technical solutions and write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
- Strong problem-solving, intellectual curiosity, and communication skills.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and API orchestration.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed, travel 20% to government sites if required, and obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $125,000.00-$195,000.00 across Level 1 and Level 2, with actual level and salary determined by qualifications.
- Potential long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan participation.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- The role includes periodic on-call shifts, occasional weekend work, up to 20% travel, and required Top Secret clearance eligibility.
Categories
Site Reliability
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches orbital rockets and spacecraft, and operates Starlink, a global satellite internet network for consumers, businesses, and governments. Its revenue comes from commercial and government launch services (Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy, Dragon cargo and crew to the ISS) and subscription broadband with Starlink hardware and service. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the privately held company serves NASA and commercial satellite operators, building most systems in-house.