Ads Platform Engineer - AI, Scale, Ownership

SpaceXAI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Vision & Dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Short & Long-term disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee discounts and perks

Job summary

SpaceXAI is seeking engineers to join a small, fast‑moving team building the X Ads Platform at scale. You’ll work across product, backend, infrastructure, and AI‑powered features to impact a broad portion of X’s revenue and learn from strong engineers.

You’ll ship features, learn large‑scale advertising systems, and contribute to reliable, high‑quality production code in a hands‑on environment.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and clean coding.
• Experience shipping features in large systems or startups.
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration.
• Willingness to take ownership of meaningful product parts.
• Interest in backend/distributed systems or AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship product features across the X Ads Platform.
• Work on ad delivery, targeting, optimization, and advertiser experience.
• Leverage SpaceXAI infrastructure and AI capabilities for product quality.
• Contribute to distributed systems that are reliable, fast, and scalable.
• Collaborate with engineers, product leads, and cross‑functional teams.
• Learn quickly, take ownership, and operate in a fast‑moving environment.
• Debug, maintain, and improve production systems serving real users.

Skills

Strong software engineering

Code quality

Ownership mindset

Bias toward action

Learning quickly

Problem solving

Effective communication

Tools

React

Golang

Python

Rust

gRPC

Java

Scala

Job description

SpaceXAI is seeking engineers to join a small, fast‑moving team building the X Ads Platform at scale. You’ll work across product, backend, infrastructure, and AI‑powered features to impact a broad portion of X’s revenue and learn from strong engineers.

You’ll ship features, learn large‑scale advertising systems, and contribute to reliable, high‑quality production code in a hands‑on environment.