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.
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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.