22 days ago
Base Salary
$220k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize integrations between frontier AI models and government systems, platforms, and data environments.
- Develop custom SDKs, APIs, developer tools, and documentation for government and enterprise developers.
- Partner with agency stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate based on real-world feedback.
- Ship production-grade code and features focused on speed, simplicity, and measurable impact.
- Collaborate with product, research, infrastructure, and legal/governance teams on safe, transparent, and useful AI capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another STEM discipline, or at least 2 years of professional software-development experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 6 years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications.
- Strong Python proficiency; experience with other programming languages is a plus.
- Experience with large language models, generative AI, or agentic systems is preferred.
- Experience with government or public-sector technology environments, regulated industries, AI safety, governance, red-teaming, responsible AI deployment, cloud platforms, containerization, API orchestration, policy-adjacent technical work, civic tech, public-interest technology, or open-source AI projects is preferred.
- Ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete technical solutions and communicate complex concepts to nontechnical partners.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Must successfully obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary of $220,000–$350,000 per year, with potential stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, and discretionary bonuses.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage; 401(k); disability and life insurance; paid parental leave; employee discounts; and other perks.
- Approximately 3 weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave under company policy.
- The role may require 20% travel to government sites and extended hours or weekends as needed.
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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.