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Principal Software Engineer (Platform Team)

SpaceX· Starship Software Engineering
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer leading SpaceX AI platform platform-scale infrastructure, defining technical vision, and accelerating trustworthy AI across SpaceX by building secure gateways, proxy systems, and reusable AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for SpaceX’s AI platform and security infrastructure
  • Lead high-impact initiatives with full ownership over strategy, design, implementation, and successful company-wide rollout
  • Oversee onboarding of frontier models, massive compute scaling, and continuous optimization of proxy systems for security, efficiency, logging, and control
  • Lead adoption efforts at scale — establishing standards, mentoring senior engineers, building reusable assets, and driving cultural change toward AI-first workflows
  • Proactively identify and execute on the highest-leverage opportunities to turn ideas into production software, trained models, and automated systems with managed, reliable compute
  • Invent and scale advanced risk-mitigation capabilities (AI code review, automated PR tools, safety systems) that protect and accelerate the business
  • Establish best practices and technical direction for lean, secure, and maximally effective applied AI across the company
  • Serve as a key technical advisor and collaborator with leadership and cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with SpaceX’s most ambitious goals

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering discipline and 7+ years of professional experience building and scaling production platforms; OR 9+ years of professional experience building and scaling production platforms in lieu of a degree
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale AI/ML platforms, internal developer platforms, or mission-critical infrastructure

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipPythonDocker
Nice to have:KubernetesSecurityMLOpsIaC (infrastructure as code)

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity Employer; accommodation available on request
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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