Base Salary
$220k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize integrations between frontier AI models, including the Grok family, 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 with an emphasis on speed, simplicity, and measurable impact.
- Collaborate with product, research, infrastructure, and legal/governance teams to support safe, transparent, and ethical AI deployment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another STEM discipline, or at least two years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least five 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.
- Familiarity with government, public-sector, regulated-industry, policy-adjacent, civic-tech, or public-interest technology environments is preferred.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, or API orchestration is preferred.
- Prior work in AI safety, governance, red-teaming, or responsible AI deployment is preferred.
- Open-source contributions to AI projects or developer tools are preferred.
- Must obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required authorizations.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, product judgment, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical partners are required.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Paid parental leave, employee discounts, and other perks.
- Three weeks of accrued paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Paid sick leave under company policy.
- Potential stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and employee stock purchase plan eligibility.
- 20% travel to government sites may be required, and extended hours or weekends may be needed.
- Top Secret Security Clearance must be obtained and maintained as a condition of employment.
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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.