Applied AI Software Engineer: Build Production AI Systems

SpaceX; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer, Applied AI to design, deploy, and integrate modern AI systems powering products and infrastructure across the company. You will own AI capabilities from prototype to production, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

Aerospace experience is not required; we seek motivated engineers who love solving problems and making an impact on SpaceX's inspiring mission. Onsite role with ownership of challenging AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 2+ years of professional software experience.
• 1+ years of full stack development experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX, including AI-powered applications that accelerate production, flight, and Starlink operations.
• Create new applications that improve how SpaceX 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 SpaceX programs

Skills

Full stack development

Python

C#.NET

Go

Scala

Java

React/Angular

AI product development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline

2+ years of professional software experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer, Applied AI to design, deploy, and integrate modern AI systems powering products and infrastructure across the company. You will own AI capabilities from prototype to production, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

Aerospace experience is not required; we seek motivated engineers who love solving problems and making an impact on SpaceX's inspiring mission. Onsite role with ownership of challenging AI workloads.