About the Role
This team at SpaceX focuses on engineering and deploying AI capabilities, including models, APIs, tools, and integrations, specifically for U.S. federal agencies. The role involves close collaboration with product, research, infrastructure, and legal/governance teams to maximize the utility of AI and future models for missions, while strictly adhering to safety, transparency, and ethical standards.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize integrations between AI frontier models (e.g., Grok family) and government systems, platforms, and data environments.
- Collaborate on custom SDKs, APIs, developer tools, and documentation tailored for government and enterprise developers.
- Partner with agency stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate rapidly based on real-world feedback.
- Ship production-grade code and features with a bias toward speed, simplicity, and measurable impact.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another STEM discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in software development in lieu of a degree.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 1+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications (strong Python proficiency, other languages a plus).
- Experience working with large language models, generative AI, or agentic systems—either in research, production, or applied engineering.
- Familiarity with government or public sector technology environments (federal civilian agencies, state/local gov, or regulated industries like healthcare, finance, or infrastructure).
- Strong product sensibility: ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code under tight timelines.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity—you thrive on hard, ambiguous challenges.
- Excellent communication skills; you can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical partners clearly and concisely.
- Prior work on AI safety, governance, red-teaming, or responsible AI deployment.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), or API orchestration.
- Background in policy-adjacent technical roles, civic tech, or public-interest technology.
- Contributions to open-source AI projects or developer tools.
Additional Requirements
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- 20% travel may be required to government sites.
- This position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment.