5 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term evolution of secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems.
- Own complex platform initiatives end-to-end and define technical strategy and best practices for secure, effective applied AI.
- Onboard frontier models, expand compute resources, and optimize proxy systems for performance, security, logging, and control.
- Build shared products, prompts, skills, infrastructure, automation, reliable data systems, and tools for converting engineering problems into deployed solutions.
- Develop AI-powered code review, pull-request automation, safety guardrails, and other business risk-mitigation tools.
- Drive adoption by mentoring engineers, communicating platform value, providing hands-on support, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders including ML researchers, security, and operations teams.
- Identify high-value opportunities and deliver scalable AI-powered solutions that improve production and development velocity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline plus 5+ years of professional production software experience, or 7+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience developing and operating production platforms, including AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems.
- 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 supporting 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.
- Ability to enable and mentor others through tools, documentation, training, and direct partnership.
- Applicants must satisfy SpaceX ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Benefits
- Company stock or long-term cash awards may be available.
- Potential discretionary bonuses and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, and life insurance coverage.
- Paid parental leave, approximately three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, paid sick leave, and other discounts and perks.
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.