Senior Software Engineer, AI Productivity

SpaceX

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Remote
Location
Ontario, CanadaAlberta, CanadaBritish Columbia, CanadaNova Scotia, Canada
Salary
$168,000–$177,500 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
Nearby
26 roles within 25 mi

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This role $173k
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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, AI Productivity

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As a Senior Software Engineer on Instacart’s AI Productivity team, you will design and build AI-powered services that enhance developer and operator productivity at scale. Your daily tasks include implementing robust back-end services in Python, Go, or Java, integrating large language models via APIs, and applying techniques like retrieval-augmented generation to improve efficiency. You’ll own projects from requirements through deployment, ensuring reliability and security while collaborating with cross-functional teams such as Developer Platform and ML Platform. Key responsibilities also involve defining success metrics, conducting experiments, and creating shared tooling for applied AI development. This role requires 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, and hands-on experience integrating machine learning capabilities into production systems.

Skills

Python Go Java AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes SQL Airflow Dagster CI/CD Prometheus Grafana LangChain LlamaIndex Pinecone Weaviate FAISS Elasticsearch React TypeScript Kafka Pub/Sub

What you'll do

  • Design and build AI-powered services that enhance developer and operator productivity at scale.
  • Implement back-end services using Python, Go, or Java, integrating large language models via APIs.
  • Ensure safe and compliant AI usage by partnering with security and legal teams for data governance.
  • Define success metrics and run experiments to validate the impact of AI solutions on operational efficiency.
  • Create shared tooling and documentation that elevate standards for applied AI development across Instacart.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production services.
  • 3+ years hands-on experience in Python, Go, or Java.
  • 2+ years integrating ML or LLM capabilities into applications and shipping to production.
  • Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containers (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Proficiency with SQL and data modeling; experience building/maintaining data pipelines.
  • Experience owning services end-to-end, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and on-call rotation.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

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