Base Salary
$125k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and train scalable AI/ML models for engineers across SpaceX.
- Develop agentic AI systems and multi-agent workflows for engineering tasks.
- Build and optimize large-scale ML training pipelines and foundation models, including LLM, vision, and multimodal systems.
- Create production AI tools for data analysis, anomaly detection, predictive modeling, and automated decision-making.
- Own the AI model lifecycle from data preparation and training infrastructure through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Prototype and evaluate AI systems while measuring performance, accuracy, reliability, safety, bias, and technical constraints.
- Collaborate on AI architecture, model design, training strategies, code reviews, testing, validation, and data security.
- Deep-dive into engineering problems and implement custom-trained AI solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, engineering, mathematics, or physics, or four years of professional experience building and training AI/ML systems in lieu of a degree.
- At least one year of professional AI software engineering experience focused on model training, fine-tuning, and machine learning systems.
- At least one year of programming experience in Python.
- Expertise with LLM transformer architectures, pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning is preferred.
- Experience training and fine-tuning LLMs and other foundation models at scale, and training computer vision models, is preferred.
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, large-scale distributed GPU training, hyperparameter optimization, experiment tracking, and MLOps is preferred.
- Knowledge of statistics, machine learning theory, deep learning, optimization, model evaluation, Linux, Git, testing, deployment, and ML monitoring is preferred.
- Experience building agentic AI systems, multi-agent workflows, data infrastructure, relational and non-relational databases, data lakes, feature stores, Docker, and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable U.S. ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Base salary range is $125,000-$175,000 per year depending on level, skills, education, and experience.
- Long-term incentives, stock options or awards, potential bonuses, and an employee stock purchase plan may be available.
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.