5 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize integrations between frontier AI models and government systems, platforms, and data environments.
- Scope product requirements and build AI-powered software for government and enterprise use cases.
- Benchmark models and develop evaluation frameworks to assess performance, weaknesses, and compliance with customer standards.
- Improve model performance through system prompt tuning or fine-tuning and support secure, scalable deployment.
- Analyze request logs, prompt data, and system outputs for reliability and auditability.
- Build internal tooling to automate workflows in secure environments.
- Partner with agency stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
- Ship production-grade code and features for high-stakes, mission-critical workloads.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, or data science.
- At least 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications.
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
- Experience with AI or machine learning products, APIs, backend systems, and frontend interfaces is preferred.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript is preferred.
- Understanding of HTTP, secure API design, machine learning fundamentals, model evaluation, training, and fine-tuning is preferred.
- Experience deploying machine learning models to production and working with evaluation frameworks is preferred.
- Experience with government agencies, DoD, federal contractors, regulated environments, or secure cloud deployments is preferred.
- Experience with large datasets, performance optimization, high-throughput workloads, SDKs, developer documentation, Pulumi, or Terraform is preferred.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements and communicate effectively in English.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately 3 weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- 20% travel to government sites may be required; extended hours and weekends may be needed.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.