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Sr. Software Engineer (Platform Team)

SpaceX· Starship Software Engineering
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focusing on building and scaling AI platform tooling and secure proxy systems to empower SpaceX teams with trustworthy AI, scalable compute, and integrated frontier models.

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:Experience with production softwareProduction platforms (AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems)Docker
Nice to have:KubernetesSecurity architectureModel onboarding and compute orchestrationObservability and infrastructure for high-volume AI usagePythonGo, Java, TypeScript, RustInfrastructure-as-code, CI/CDAI risk mitigation
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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