Software Engineer, Platform Team
SpaceX
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This role pays less than 81% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$201,600 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $135k versus about $176k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
SpaceX currently has 680 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 442 roles with salary data.
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As a Software Engineer (Platform Team), you will join the team responsible for building foundational tooling and security infrastructure to empower internal teams to utilize AI effectively. You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems that integrate with various cloud compute providers and frontier model providers. Your daily work involves managing the full lifecycle of platform development, onboarding new models, expanding compute capacity, and optimizing proxy efficiency for logging and control. You will also develop risk-mitigation tools like intelligent code review assistants to convert engineering expertise into automated systems. The role requires proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript, along with experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code. You will solve complex problems regarding MLOps, compute orchestration, and the creation of reliable data stores for large-scale AI usage across the organization.
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