5 months ago
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
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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.