6 hours ago
Base Salary
$125k - $220k/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 focused on speed, simplicity, and measurable impact.
- Collaborate with product, research, infrastructure, and legal/governance teams on safe, transparent, and ethical AI deployment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another STEM discipline, or 2+ years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree.
- 1+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications is preferred.
- 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 or public-sector technology environments or regulated industries is preferred.
- Ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete technical solutions and write clean, maintainable, high-performance code under tight timelines.
- Prior work in AI safety, governance, red-teaming, or responsible AI deployment is preferred.
- Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, or API orchestration is preferred.
- Background in policy-adjacent technical roles, civic technology, public-interest technology, or open-source AI and developer tools is preferred.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed and obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $125,000.00-$220,000.00, with potential stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan participation.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Three weeks of accrued paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave pursuant to company policy.
- Approximately 20% travel to government sites may be required.
- The role may require extended hours and weekends and requires obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret security clearance.
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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.