Base Salary
$210k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for SpaceX’s AI platform and security infrastructure.
- Own strategy, design, implementation, and company-wide rollout of high-impact initiatives.
- Onboard frontier models, scale compute, and optimize proxy systems for security, efficiency, logging, and control.
- Establish standards, mentor senior engineers, create reusable assets, and drive adoption of AI-first workflows.
- Turn high-leverage ideas into production software, trained models, automated systems, and managed reliable compute.
- Develop risk-mitigation capabilities including AI code review, automated pull-request tools, and safety systems.
- Establish best practices and technical direction for secure, effective applied AI across the company.
- Advise leadership and collaborate cross-functionally to align platform capabilities with SpaceX’s goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline plus 7+ years of professional experience building and scaling production platforms, or 9+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale AI/ML platforms, internal developer platforms, or mission-critical infrastructure.
- Experience architecting and scaling AI gateways, secure proxy layers, or enterprise MLOps platforms serving hundreds of users.
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes ecosystems, zero-trust security models, and multi-cloud and frontier-model integrations.
- Deep expertise in MLOps, distributed compute, model lifecycle management, and highly observable and reliable systems.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, shared-platform, standards, and organization-wide adoption experience.
- Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code, advanced observability, modern languages and tooling, and Python.
- ITAR eligibility or ability to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
- Passion for responsible AI, developer velocity, and reliable automation at scale.
Benefits
- Eligible for company stock or long-term cash awards, potential discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and employee discounts.
- Accrues three weeks of paid vacation and is eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy.
- ITAR eligibility is required, including U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residency, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility to obtain required authorizations.
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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.