Application Software Engineer, Applied AI
AI summary of the role
SpaceX's Application Software team is hiring an Applied AI engineer to design, evaluate, deploy, and integrate LLM and agentic systems into mission-critical applications supporting launch vehicle production, flight, and Starlink operations.
What you’ll do
- Develop highly reliable software solutions including AI-powered applications that accelerate production, flight, and Starlink operations
- Own the full lifecycle of Applied AI systems: design, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration from prototype to production
- Architect production systems for agentic workflows, tool-use, multi-agent orchestration, advanced retrieval, and long-context applications
- Build and maintain rigorous evaluation frameworks (LLM-as-judge, automated benchmarks, online evaluation) and production observability/monitoring for AI quality, safety, latency, and cost
What you’ll bring
- 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
- Hands-on experience evaluating, deploying, and integrating AI models into production systems
- Deep hands-on experience with modern LLM techniques: agentic systems, tool-use / function calling, multi-agent orchestration, advanced retrieval architectures, fine-tuning, and structured outputs
Technologies
LLM · agentic systems · tool-use · multi-agent orchestration · retrieval · fine-tuning · LLM-as-judge · Python · C#.NET · Go · Scala · Java
About SpaceX
Builds reusable launch systems, spacecraft, and the Starlink satellite network to lower the cost of access to space while turning orbital infrastructure into a mass-market connectivity business.
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