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Sr. Software Engineer (Platform Team)

SpaceX· Starship Software Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$160k - $225kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focused on building and scaling AI platform tooling, secure gateways, and proxy systems for company-wide AI usage at SpaceX. Leads design and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and contributes to frontier model onboarding, compute expansion, and risk-mitigation tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems used company-wide
  • Own complex platform initiatives end-to-end, including technical strategy, implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term evolution
  • Drive onboarding of new frontier models, expansion of compute resources, and optimization of proxy systems for performance, security, logging, and control
  • Champion adoption across SpaceX by mentoring engineers, communicating value, building shared products/prompts/skills/infrastructure, and providing hands-on support
  • Act as an entrepreneurial force to identify high-value opportunities and deliver solutions that allow users to rapidly convert problems and ideas into tested software, deployed applications, and trained models on managed, reliable compute
  • Develop and scale tools that mitigate business risk, such as advanced AI-powered code review, PR automation, and safety guardrails
  • Define best practices for lean, effective, and secure applied AI that maximizes conversion of engineering expertise into automation and reliable data systems
  • Collaborate with and influence cross-functional stakeholders, including ML researchers, security, and operations teams

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience building production software; OR 7+ years of professional experience building production software in lieu of a degree
  • Experience developing and operating production platforms (AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems)

Skills

Required:DockerKubernetesSecurity architecture
Nice to have:PythonGo/Java/TypeScript/Rust

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 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+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave as per company policy
  • employee stock purchase plan and potential discretionary bonuses
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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