2 months ago
Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop reliable software and AI-powered applications used across SpaceX production, flight, and Starlink operations
- Create applications incorporating large language models, agentic systems, and other AI capabilities
- Own Applied AI systems from design and evaluation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Identify high-leverage AI opportunities by understanding users’ problems and deliver production-grade solutions
- Architect agentic workflows, tool-use systems, multi-agent orchestration, advanced retrieval, and long-context applications
- Build evaluation frameworks and observability systems for AI quality, safety, latency, and cost
- Stay current with LLM techniques and incorporate emerging practices into production systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline, or 2+ years of professional software-building experience in lieu of a degree
- At least 1 year of full-stack development experience
- Hands-on experience evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI models into production systems
- Experience delivering end-to-end AI products or production AI-powered features
- Experience with agentic systems, tool use or function calling, multi-agent orchestration, advanced retrieval, fine-tuning, and structured outputs
- Experience building production evaluation, A/B testing, red-teaming, observability, and monitoring systems for AI
- Strong software engineering and production architecture experience with clean, maintainable code
- Programming experience in Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, Java, or a similar language
- Production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Kafka or similar data-streaming technology
- Front-end experience with Angular, React, or similar, and database experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar
- Ability to work under pressure across multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-reliability environment
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility 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 3 weeks of paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays
- Potential long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access
- Various discounts and perks
- Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday through Friday
- Onsite role; remote and hybrid work are not considered
- Extended hours and weekends may be required depending on launch cadence
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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.