about 4 hours ago
Hawthorne, CA, USA
Senior / Staff+
Base Salary
$200k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for SpaceX’s AI platform and security infrastructure.
- Lead high-impact initiatives with full ownership over strategy, design, implementation, and successful company-wide rollout.
- Oversee onboarding of frontier models, massive compute scaling, and continuous optimization of proxy systems for security, efficiency, logging, and control.
- Lead adoption efforts at scale — establishing standards, mentoring senior engineers, building reusable assets, and driving cultural change toward AI-first workflows.
- Proactively identify and execute on the highest-leverage opportunities to turn ideas into production software, trained models, and automated systems.
- Invent and scale advanced risk-mitigation capabilities that protect and accelerate the business.
- Establish best practices and technical direction for lean, secure, and effective applied AI across the company.
- Serve as a key technical advisor and collaborator with leadership and cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering discipline and 7+ years of professional experience building and scaling production platforms; OR 9+ years of professional experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale AI/ML platforms, internal developer platforms, or mission-critical infrastructure.
Benefits
- Eligible for long-term incentives, including company stock or long-term cash awards.
- Access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
- Paid parental leave and various other discounts and perks.
- Accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
Tech Stack
DockerKubernetesPython
Categories
AI & MLData EngineeringDevOps