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Sr. AI Engineer, Special Programs

SpaceX· Starshield AI Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$220k - $350kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior AI engineer focusing on engineering and deploying AI capabilities for U.S. federal agencies, collaborating with product, research, infrastructure, and governance teams to ensure AI models and tools are useful, safe, and compliant.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize integrations between AI frontier models (e.g., Grok family) and government systems, platforms, and data environments
  • Collaborate on custom SDKs, APIs, developer tools, and documentation tailored for government and enterprise developers
  • Partner with agency stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate rapidly based on real-world feedback
  • Ship production-grade code and features with a bias toward speed, simplicity, and measurable impact

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or another STEM discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in software development in lieu of a degree
  • 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications (strong Python proficiency, other languages a plus)

Skills

Required:Large language models / generative AI
Nice to have:Government/public sector tech

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave as per policy
  • stock options or long-term incentives and potential discretionary bonuses
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • discounts and other perks
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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