Applied AI Engineer: Production-Grade AI Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Application Software Engineer, Applied AI to design, deploy, and integrate AI-powered systems across the company. You will own end-to-end lifecycle from prototype to production, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

The role emphasizes building reliable software, leveraging modern LLM techniques, and staying ahead of AI advances to enable Starlink-related products and aerospace missions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional software experience in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of experience in full stack development.
• Hands-on experience evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI models into production systems.
• Proven track record of delivering end-to-end AI products or production AI features.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across the company, including AI-powered applications that accelerate production, flight, and Starlink operations.
• Create new applications that improve how the company operates by incorporating modern large language models, agentic systems, and other AI capabilities.
• Own the full lifecycle of Applied AI systems: design, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration from prototype to production.
• Deep dive into users’ problems to uncover high-leverage AI opportunities and deliver efficient, production-grade solutions.
• Architect production systems for agentic workflows, tool-use, multi-agent orchestration, advanced retrieval, and long-context applications that prioritize reliability, safety, and responsible deployment.
• Build and maintain rigorous evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-judge, automated benchmarks, online evaluation) and production observability/monitoring for AI quality, safety, latency, and cost.
• Stay at the frontier of LLM techniques and rapidly incorporate emerging best practices into production systems across the company programs.

Skills

AI product delivery

LLM techniques

Python

Production AI

High reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Application Software Engineer, Applied AI to design, deploy, and integrate AI-powered systems across the company. You will own end-to-end lifecycle from prototype to production, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

The role emphasizes building reliable software, leveraging modern LLM techniques, and staying ahead of AI advances to enable Starlink-related products and aerospace missions.