About the position
Be a founding member of the Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering team, focusing on solving complex data problems for our launch vehicles and spacecraft. Our team is creating AI systems to accelerate software development and testing, avionics design, flight data review, logistics, and mission operations. Your work will directly support the world's largest satellite constellation, accelerate rapid reuse of the Falcon launch vehicle, and contribute to the development of the world's largest rocket capable of sending humans to Mars. The role will consist of utilizing existing AI technologies and developing in-house solutions and processes to safely use AI. You will be responsible for working with a diverse set of technologies including setting up Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), training internal models on SpaceX data, using Machine Learning (ML) to intelligently extract knowledge hidden in time-series data and developing new technologies to help engineers rapidly design and test space hardware including electronics and propulsion systems. The team will work closely with engineers throughout the company to create new AI systems to unlock engineering bottlenecks and transform how engineering data is accessed and used at SpaceX. Aerospace experience is not required to be successful here - rather, we look for smart, motivated, collaborative engineers who love solving problems and want to make an impact on an inspiring mission. You will have full ownership of challenging problems and work with a team of enthusiastic engineers to design and produce AI solutions that enable SpaceX to move towards our goals at a rapid pace.
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable and scalable artificial intelligence pipelines to empower engineers across all SpaceX departments
- Create new AI applications that will revolutionize day to day operations for engineers at SpaceX
- Build AI driven data review tools
- Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews
- Build prototypes to prove out key AI design concepts and quantify technical constraints
- Own all aspects of AI software engineering and product development from initial prototyping
- Deep dive into engineering problems to find efficient AI solutions
- Develop security policies to protect data and user based policies to develop robust AI standards
- Ensure that AI systems are properly vetted to ensure accurate and reliable output
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math or physics; OR 4+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
- 5+ years of experience in AI software engineering, full stack development, and data science
Nice-to-haves
- Programming experience in Python, C++, or similar languages
- Building LLM RAG pipelines in LlamaIndex or similar
- Experience fine tuning LLM models
- Experience building complex Agentic workflows
- Experience training ML models for computer vision systems
- Experience working with AI systems and Machine learning and tools such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or similar
- Experience with relational databases, non-relational databases, vector databases, PostgreSQL, Qdrant, or similar
- Experience Deploying containerized applications systems using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience developing on Linux systems
- Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring
- Front-end experience in React, or similar JavaScript framework
- Good understanding of statistics, machine learning algorithms and frameworks
Benefits
- Pay range: $160,000.00 - $220,000.00/per year
- Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
- Potential discretionary bonuses
- Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Various other discounts and perks
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy
