Applied AI Software Engineer - Build Production-Ready AI

SpaceX; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer for Applied AI in New York. You will design, deploy, and integrate modern AI systems powering SpaceX products and infrastructure, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to take AI capabilities from prototype to production.

You will own end-to-end lifecycle of AI capabilities, work on agentic workflows, and build robust evaluation and observability for AI quality, safety, and cost, staying at the forefront of LLM techniques

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of experience in full stack development

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

Java

React

Angular

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Education

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

2+ years professional experience (alternative to degree)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer for Applied AI in New York. You will design, deploy, and integrate modern AI systems powering SpaceX products and infrastructure, collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to take AI capabilities from prototype to production.

You will own end-to-end lifecycle of AI capabilities, work on agentic workflows, and build robust evaluation and observability for AI quality, safety, and cost, staying at the forefront of LLM techniques