Principal Software Engineer (Platform Team)

35 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
SpaceX

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the aim of revolutionizing space technology and enabling human life on other planets.

Aerospace & Defense
10K-50K
Founded 2002

Description

  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for SpaceX’s AI platform and security infrastructure.
  • Lead high-impact initiatives with full ownership over strategy, design, implementation, and company-wide rollout.
  • Oversee onboarding of frontier models, compute scaling, and optimization of proxy systems for security, efficiency, logging, and control.
  • Lead adoption efforts by establishing standards, mentoring senior engineers, building reusable assets, and driving AI-first workflows.
  • Identify and execute the highest-leverage opportunities to turn ideas into production software, trained models, and automated systems.
  • Invent and scale risk-mitigation capabilities such as AI code review, automated PR tools, and safety systems.
  • Establish best practices and technical direction for secure, lean, and highly effective applied AI across the company.
  • Serve as a technical advisor and collaborator with leadership and cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with company goals.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline, plus 7+ years of professional experience building and scaling production platforms; or 9+ years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale AI/ML platforms, internal developer platforms, or mission-critical infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated success architecting and scaling AI gateways, secure proxy layers, or enterprise MLOps platforms serving hundreds of users.
  • Expert-level experience with Docker/Kubernetes ecosystems, zero-trust security models, and multi-cloud/frontier-model integrations.
  • Deep expertise in MLOps, distributed compute, model lifecycle management, and highly observable, reliable systems.
  • Strong history of enabling organization-wide impact through technical leadership, mentoring, and shared platforms/standards.
  • Entrepreneurial leadership with a proven ability to spot and deliver transformative solutions.
  • Mastery of Python and broad expertise across modern languages and tooling.
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code, advanced observability, and building platforms that others love to use.
  • Ability to meet ITAR export-control requirements as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or otherwise eligible for required authorizations.

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