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Application Software Engineer, Applied AI

SpaceX· Application Software
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Applied AI role within SpaceX's Application Software team building AI-powered applications and end-to-end AI systems for production use across SpaceX programs (production, flight, Starlink). Owns prototype-to-production lifecycle of AI capabilities, integrating modern AI models, ensuring reliability, safety, and observability while collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations.

Responsibilities

  • Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX, including AI-powered applications that accelerate production, flight, and Starlink operations
  • Create new applications that improve how SpaceX operates by incorporating modern large language models, agentic systems, and other AI capabilities
  • Own the full lifecycle of Applied AI systems: design, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration from prototype to production
  • Deep dive into users’ problems to uncover high-leverage AI opportunities and deliver efficient, production-grade solutions
  • Architect production systems for agentic workflows, tool-use, multi-agent orchestration, advanced retrieval, and long-context applications that prioritize reliability, safety, and responsible deployment
  • Build and maintain rigorous evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-judge, automated benchmarks, online evaluation) and production observability/monitoring for AI quality, safety, latency, and cost
  • Stay at the frontier of LLM techniques and rapidly incorporate emerging best practices into production systems across SpaceX programs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
  • 1+ years of experience in full stack development

Skills

Required:AI product design and deliveryEnd-to-end AI product lifecycleLLM techniques and agentic systemsPython, C#.NET, Go, Scala, JavaDocker, Kubernetes, data streaming (Kafka)
Nice to have:Production evaluation and AI observabilityProduction architecture for AI-powered appsFrontend experience (Angular, React) and databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server)
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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