Software Engineer (AI Data Engineering)
SpaceX, Hawthorne, CA
The role
Be a member of the Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering Software team, building AI-powered tools and automation that solve real engineering problems for our launch vehicles and spacecraft.
Our team builds software that takes recurring, time-consuming work off engineers' plates so they can focus on hard engineering, from automated review of flight and test data to AI agents that help engineers prepare for missions and investigate anomalies. Your work will directly accelerate rapid reuse of the Falcon launch vehicle, support the world's largest satellite communication and AI constellations, and contribute to the development of the world's largest rocket capable of sending humans to Mars.
You will work side-by-side with engineers across avionics, propulsion, structures, and more to find where their time goes and build tools that give it back, using agentic AI systems, MCP servers, RAG-based search, data pipelines over large telemetry datasets, and traditional automation where it is the right answer. You will own problems end-to-end: scoping the solution with the engineers who have the problem, rolling it out, measuring the time it saves, and maintaining it as the vehicle and processes evolve.