Applied AI Software Engineer - Production Systems

SpaceX; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX seeks an Applications Software Engineer in Applied AI to design, deploy, and integrate AI systems powering production and Starlink operations. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI capabilities from prototype to production, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

We value engineers who deliver real AI products, with hands-on experience evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI into production. Onsite role with a fast-paced, high-reliability environment at SpaceX.

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

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

AI model deployment

LLM techniques

Python

C#.NET

Go

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

Data streaming

React/Angular

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Code quality

Full stack development

Education

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

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

SpaceX seeks an Applications Software Engineer in Applied AI to design, deploy, and integrate AI systems powering production and Starlink operations. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI capabilities from prototype to production, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

We value engineers who deliver real AI products, with hands-on experience evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI into production. Onsite role with a fast-paced, high-reliability environment at SpaceX.