6 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and company-wide proxy systems.
- Own complex platform initiatives end to end, including technical strategy, implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term evolution.
- Onboard frontier models, expand compute resources, and optimize proxy systems for performance, security, logging, and control.
- Build shared products, prompts, skills, infrastructure, documentation, and training while mentoring engineers and supporting users.
- Deliver tools that convert engineering problems into tested software, deployed applications, and trained models on managed compute.
- Develop AI-powered code review, PR automation, and safety guardrails to mitigate business risk.
- Define best practices for secure, effective applied AI and reliable data systems.
- Collaborate with and influence ML research, security, operations, and other cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline and at least 5 years of professional experience building production software, or at least 7 years of professional production software experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience developing and operating production platforms such as AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems.
- Experience building and scaling internal AI gateways, secure proxy systems, or MLOps platforms is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, security architecture, and integrations across cloud and frontier model providers is preferred.
- Background in model onboarding, compute orchestration, observability, and infrastructure for high-volume AI usage is preferred.
- Proficiency in Python and strong experience with additional languages such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Rust is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and highly reliable distributed systems is preferred.
- Applicants must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Company stock or long-term cash award eligibility
- Potential discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Three weeks of accrued paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy
Categories
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.