Base Salary
$135k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems used across SpaceX
- Own platform development through design, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement
- Create shared prompts, skills, documentation, training, and infrastructure that drive adoption among engineers
- Identify high-value opportunities and build solutions for tested software, deployed applications, trained models, and managed compute
- Collaborate with stakeholders to connect AI capabilities to real tools and workflows
- Onboard models, expand compute resources, and optimize proxy systems for logging, control, efficiency, and security
- Develop risk-mitigation tools including AI-powered code review and pull-request automation
- Convert engineering expertise into automation and reliable data systems through lean, secure applied AI
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline, or at least 2 years of professional experience building production software in lieu of a degree
- Experience developing production software systems in platform, backend, or full-stack environments
- Preferred experience building internal developer platforms, AI gateways, or secure proxy systems in production
- Hands-on experience with Docker containers, security-focused architecture, and integrations across cloud compute and frontier model providers
- Familiarity with MLOps, model onboarding, compute orchestration, and infrastructure for large-scale AI usage
- Proficiency in Python and experience with additional languages such as Go, Java, or TypeScript
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, container orchestration, observability, and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Understanding of AI risk mitigation, code generation, and developer productivity tools
- Applicants must meet applicable ITAR citizenship, residency, refugee, asylee, 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 other discounts and perks
- Three weeks of accrued paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy
Tech Stack
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.