Software Engineer, Inference (AI Data Engineering)

SpaceX · Palo Alto

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Company
SpaceX
Location
Palo Alto
Salary
$135,000.00 - $175,000.00
Posted
August 19, 2026

About this job

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 fast, reliable Internet service. We are looking for engineers who treat fellow teammates with fairness, respect, and support. Our team maintains a high-performance AI inference platform that serves the best models internally at SpaceX to accelerate our most ambitious engineering goals. As part of this effort in Palo Alto, you will design and optimize large-scale model serving systems end-to-end, owning everything from distributed infrastructure to deep low-level optimizations.…

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