Base Salary
$200k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for SpaceX’s AI platform and security infrastructure.
- Own strategy, design, implementation, and company-wide rollout of high-impact initiatives.
- Onboard frontier models, scale compute, and optimize proxy systems for security, efficiency, logging, and control.
- Establish standards, mentor senior engineers, build reusable assets, and drive adoption of AI-first workflows.
- Turn ideas into production software, trained models, automated systems, and reliable managed compute.
- Develop AI code review, automated pull-request tools, and other risk-mitigation and safety systems.
- Establish best practices and technical direction for secure, lean, 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 equivalent professional experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale AI/ML platforms, internal developer platforms, or mission-critical infrastructure.
- Experience architecting and scaling AI gateways, secure proxy layers, or enterprise MLOps platforms serving hundreds of users.
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes ecosystems, zero-trust security models, and multi-cloud and frontier-model integrations.
- Deep expertise in MLOps, distributed compute, model lifecycle management, and highly observable, reliable systems.
- Mastery of Python and broad expertise across modern languages and tooling.
- Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and advanced observability.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, shared-platform development, standards creation, and organization-wide impact.
- Ability to meet applicable ITAR 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
- Company stock or long-term cash award eligibility, potential discretionary bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave
- Additional discounts and 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.