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Application Software Engineer, Applied AI

SpaceX· Application Software
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Hawthorne, CA$125k - $195kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Applied AI-focused software engineering role within SpaceX’s Application Software team, designing, evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI systems (including large language models and agentic systems) to power products and infrastructure across SpaceX, from prototype to production.

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 model evaluation and deploymentEnd-to-end AI product developmentLLM techniques (agentic systems, tool-use, multi-agent orchestration)

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, including company stock or long-term cash awards
  • potential discretionary bonuses
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • 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
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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