Software Engineer (Vehicle Engineering)

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $125,000–$150,000 / yr
Posted: today

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Below market

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Similar $165k

This role $138k

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This role pays less than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $137,500–$193,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $138k versus about $165k for comparable roles.

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About SpaceX

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 604 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$155,000 across 440 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer (Vehicle Engineering)

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Join the Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering team at SpaceX as a Software Engineer focusing on vehicle engineering, where you will develop AI systems to accelerate software development and testing for launch vehicles and spacecraft. Your daily tasks include setting up Large Language Models with Retrieval Augmented Generation pipelines, training internal models on SpaceX data, and creating intelligent tools to extract knowledge from time-series data. You’ll work closely with engineers across the company to solve complex engineering bottlenecks using Python, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, Kubernetes, and React. This role involves developing highly reliable AI pipelines and building new applications that revolutionize day-to-day operations for SpaceX’s satellite constellation and Mars mission initiatives.

Skills

Python C++ LLamaIndex RAG PyTorch TensorFlow PostgreSQL Qdrant Docker Kubernetes Linux React

What you'll do

Develop highly reliable and scalable AI pipelines for SpaceX departments.
Create new AI applications to revolutionize daily operations for engineers.
Build data review tools driven by AI for efficient analysis.
Prototype key AI design concepts to quantify technical constraints.
Ensure AI systems are vetted for accuracy and reliability.

What we're looking for

1+ years of experience in AI software engineering, full stack development, and data science
Programming experience in Python, C++, or similar languages
Experience building LLM RAG pipelines using LlamaIndex or similar tools
Experience fine-tuning LLM models and developing complex Agentic workflows
Expertise in training ML models for computer vision systems and deploying containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes

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