Base Salary
$200k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for the AI platform and security infrastructure.
- Lead initiatives through strategy, design, implementation, and company-wide rollout.
- Onboard frontier models, scale compute, and optimize proxy systems for security, efficiency, logging, and control.
- Establish standards, mentor senior engineers, create reusable assets, and drive organization-wide adoption of AI-first workflows.
- Turn engineering ideas into production software, trained models, automated systems, and reliable managed compute.
- Develop risk-mitigation capabilities including AI code review, automated pull-request tools, and safety systems.
- Establish best practices and technical direction for secure, effective applied AI across SpaceX.
- Advise leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with company goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline and 7+ years of professional experience building and scaling production platforms, or 9+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale AI/ML platforms, internal developer platforms, or mission-critical infrastructure.
- Experience architecting AI gateways, secure proxy layers, or enterprise MLOps platforms serving hundreds of users is preferred.
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes ecosystems, zero-trust security models, and multi-cloud or frontier-model integrations is preferred.
- Deep expertise in MLOps, distributed compute, model lifecycle management, observability, and reliable systems is preferred.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, shared-platform development, infrastructure-as-code, and modern tooling experience is preferred.
- Mastery of Python and broad expertise across modern programming languages and tooling is preferred.
- Applicants must meet applicable ITAR citizenship, residency, refugee, asylee, or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays annually
- Employee stock purchase plan, potential discretionary bonuses, company stock or long-term cash awards, discounts, and other perks
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.