Base Salary
$160k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead computer vision model development and deployment for real-time production inspection and automated defect recognition.
- Architect pipelines for model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
- Develop software integrating hardware, sensors, tooling, sensor fusion, and AI-driven process monitoring systems.
- Build and optimize production data pipelines with real-time stream processing and inference.
- Connect AI models and outputs to manufacturing with part/process engineers, NDE engineers, and materials scientists.
- Lead design and code reviews, technology evaluations, and software engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or a related STEM discipline, or 8+ years of professional AI software or machine learning experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 5 years of software development experience, including at least 3 years of software engineering experience.
- At least 3 years of experience deploying AI models to production environments.
- At least 3 years of Python experience for data analysis.
- Technical leadership experience in AI/ML software projects and hands-on computer vision deployment for manufacturing inspection are preferred.
- Strong Python and C++ or similar development experience, plus PyTorch or JAX and OpenCV experience, are preferred.
- Experience with transformers, vision transformers, LLM or vision-language model fine-tuning, agentic tools, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud or edge inference, and MLOps is preferred.
- Experience with Kubeflow, Ray, MLflow, Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, Jupyter, Linux, physics-informed neural networks, or surrogate modeling is preferred.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary and travel to other SpaceX sites up to 20%.
- Applicants must meet applicable ITAR citizenship, residency, refugee, asylee, or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Base salary plus potential company stock or long-term cash awards and discretionary bonuses.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Travel to other SpaceX sites may be required up to 20%, and extended hours or weekends may be necessary.
Tech Stack
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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.