Sr. AI Engineer, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance
SpaceX, Palo Alto, CA +1
The role
Sr. AI engineers work directly with our end customers to own strategy, execution, and deployment of mission-critical AI solutions for U.S federal agencies. You'll work closely with product, research, infrastructure, and legal/governance teams to deliver high-stakes projects to make current AI and future models maximally useful for missions while upholding safety, transparency, and ethical standards.
What you will do
- Design, build, and optimize integrations between AI frontier models (e.g., Grok family) and government systems, platforms, and data environments.
- Identify pain points, scoping product specifications, and designing and building AI-powered software for government or enterprise use cases.
- Benchmark models and develop evaluation frameworks to assess performance and address weaknesses, ensuring compliance with customer standards.
- Enhancing model performance through system prompt tuning or fine-tuning, with an eye toward secure and scalable deployment.