5 months ago
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 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.