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Sr. Software Engineer (Platform Team)

SpaceX· Starship Software Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$170k - $235kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior-level software engineer leading the design, development, and scale of SpaceX's AI platform and secure proxy systems. Focused on lean, effective applied AI, model onboarding, compute orchestration, and risk-mitigating tooling in a production-grade environment.

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:Secure AI platformsDockerKubernetesSecurity architecture
Nice to have:Model onboarding & compute orchestrationPythonDevOps / IaC / CI/CD

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 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
  • employee stock purchase plan and potential discretionary bonuses
  • stock or long-term cash incentives
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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