Base Salary
$170k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and company-wide proxy systems
- Own platform initiatives end-to-end from technical strategy and implementation through 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 and supporting engineers
- Deliver tools that convert engineering problems and ideas into tested software, deployed applications, trained models, and reliable data systems
- Develop AI-powered code review, PR automation, safety guardrails, and other business risk-mitigation tools
- Define secure and effective applied-AI best practices and collaborate with ML research, security, and operations stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline plus 5+ years of professional experience building production software, or 7+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree
- Experience developing and operating production platforms, including AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, security architecture, and integrations across cloud and frontier model providers is preferred
- Experience with model onboarding, compute orchestration, observability, infrastructure for high-volume AI usage, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and highly reliable distributed systems is preferred
- Proficiency in Python and strong experience with additional languages such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Rust is preferred
- Experience enabling and mentoring engineers through tools, documentation, training, and direct partnership is preferred
- Applicants must meet applicable ITAR eligibility 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
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan and potential long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, and other discounts and perks
- Three weeks of accrued paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave
- ITAR eligibility is required, including U.S. citizenship or national status, lawful permanent residency, refugee or asylee status, or ability to obtain required authorizations
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.