Software Engineer, Inference (AI Data Engineering)
SpaceX · Falcon and Dragon Avionics & Software Engineering
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- Unspecified
- Level
- New grad
- Type
- Unspecified
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About the company
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of…
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, INFERENCE (AI DATA ENGINEERING)
The application software team is the central nervous system of SpaceX – we create mission critical applications that are used throughout SpaceX to accelerate launch vehicle production and flight as well as systems that allow Starlink to grow into a worldwide…
RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop highly reliable, high-throughput inference systems that serve the best AI models internally across SpaceX Architect and implement scalable distributed infrastructure for model serving, including load balancing, auto-scaling, batch scheduling, global…
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable…
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Experience with LLM inference engines and serving frameworks (e.g., SGLang, vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM) Deep low-level systems programming and optimizations: GPU kernels, code generation, batching, caching, parallelism, quantization, and speculative decoding…
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
You may be asked to work extended hours/weekends dependent on launch cadence and platform demands This role requires you to be onsite in Palo Alto. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: Pay Range: Level 1: $135,000.00 -…
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