Software Engineer
Q2
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This role pays more than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $140,739–$202,675 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $172k 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 604 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$155,000 across 440 roles with salary data.
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Join the Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering team at SpaceX as a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on developing AI technologies to accelerate engineering for launch vehicles and spacecraft. You will design and train highly reliable, scalable AI/ML models to empower engineers across all departments, build agentic AI systems, and optimize large-scale machine learning training pipelines. Utilizing Python and modern ML frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, you will work on complex projects involving reinforcement learning, fine-tuning LLMs, and computer vision tasks. Your efforts will contribute to the development of next-generation AI applications that transform how engineering data is accessed and used at SpaceX, supporting ambitious goals such as rapid reuse of launch vehicles and missions to Mars.
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