Software Engineer, Inference (AI Data Engineering) is open at SpaceX in Palo Alto, CA. The posting gives a salary of $135K - $175K. Posted on Aug 19, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
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 KV cache, and continuous batching Optimize latency and throughput of model inference under real production workloads, including low-level GPU kernel work…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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