Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$180k–$440k/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: C, C++, Networking Protocols, Distributed Systems, Traffic Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$180k–$440k/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: Rust, C++, C, Kubernetes, Linux kernel
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: RL Inference, Distributed Systems, LLM Inference, Python, C++
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$175k–$275k/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: Software engineering, AI/ML workflows, Annotation tools, Evals, Component libraries
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$180k–$440k/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: C++, Rust, GPU Kernels, Distributed Systems, Model Serving
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$125k–$400k/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: Python, Rust, Scala, Go, Java
Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote OK
$150k–$250k/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: Python, Go, TCP/IP, BGP, RDMA
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$180k–$440k/yr
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organi…
Skills: Distributed systems, Python, Jax, Rust, C++
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$150k–$284k/yr
We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you …
Skills: Electromagnetic design, Electric motor design, FEA modeling, 3D simulation, Loss mapping
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$150k–$284k/yr
We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you …
Skills: Electromagnetic design, Electric machine fundamentals, Magnetic circuit design, JMAG, COMSOL
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
About Rivian Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. As a company, we con…
Skills: Electrical systems design, Power architecture, Network connectivity, Autonomous vehicle systems, ISO 26262
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$167k–$222k/yr
About Wing: Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, an…
Skills: Financial Modeling, Unit Economics, CAPEX Management, COGS Frameworks, Bill of Materials (BOM)
Mercari, Inc.Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$146k–$219k/yr
Mercari is Your Marketplace. We make it super easy to sell (or buy) almost anything. We all have things we don’t use, never used or simply outgrew. But that stuff still has value. Mercari gives you the power to simply se…
Skills: Data engineering, GCP, BigQuery, Dataform, Airflow
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$145k–$154k/yr
About Wing: Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, an…
Skills: Safety Data Analysis, Safety Management System (SMS), Safety Risk Management (SRM), Root-Cause Analysis, Risk Assessment
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$188k–$200k/yr
About Typeface We help the world’s biggest brands move from brief to fully personalized campaigns — in days, not months. Founded by Abhay Parasnis and backed by Microsoft, GV, Salesforce, Lightspeed, Madrona and Menlo, w…
Skills: Backend development, Cloud platforms, AWS, Azure, GCP
Palo Alto, California, United States · Remote Solely
$230k–$250k/yr
Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance. Claims processing (i.e. should we pay this claim?), while often overlooked, is the foundation of the entire industry. It’s currently highly manual, involving phone calls, f…
Skills: Software engineering management, Team leadership, Mentorship, Node.js, TypeScript
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$171k–$231k/yr
Amazon Conversational Search is the exciting new LLM-based feature in the Amazon App / Desktop to allow customers to engage with Amazon in natural language conversations. We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Man…
Skills: Technical program management, Software development, Cross-functional team leadership, Stakeholder management, LLM
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$138k–$185k/yr
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the AI/ML data platform team you serve as a seasoned me…
Skills: Python, Machine Learning, AWS, Kubernetes, GPU optimization
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$304k–$323k/yr
About Wing: Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, an…
Skills: Sensor Architecture, Hardware Systems Engineering, RF Technologies, UWB, LTE
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
Cspeed IO is a stealth start up backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and Atreides Capital - headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Our executive team has a demonstrated track record of building and scaling category-defining semicondu…
Skills: Supply chain management, Materials planning, ERP systems, MRP systems, Semiconductor industry
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Develop routing and traffic-engineering algorithms for the Colossus high-performance datacenter network. Design and deploy reliable, real-time software for switches to maximize the performance and reliability of the AI training fabric.
Requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical field or 2+ years of professional software development experience with strong C/C++ skills. Preferred candidates have deep knowledge of networking protocols, distributed systems, and experience with large-scale production environments.
SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
At SpaceXAI, we design, build, and operate Colossus from the ground up. This includes the massive GPU clusters, high-speed interconnect fabric, and the software that makes it all work at unprecedented scale. Colossus powers Grok and our frontier AI models with a custom, high-performance datacenter network that delivers ultra-low latency and massive bandwidth across hundreds of thousands of GPUs.
As a Software Engineer on the Colossus Networking team, you will develop the core networking software that maximizes the performance and reliability of our datacenter fabric. Your work will directly impact training efficiency, model convergence, and the speed at which we can push the frontier of AI.
Our engineers own the full lifecycle of their software — from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and iteration based on real-world performance at scale. You will solve hard problems in distributed systems, high-performance networking, and real-time control of one of the largest AI supercomputers on Earth.
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Deploying agentic AI across space-scale systems.
SpaceXAIA deploys and orchestrates AI agents across space-scale systems. We build agentic systems that plan, coordinate, and execute across orbital and terrestrial infrastructure. Our work focuses on autonomous operations, systems orchestration, and human-in-the-loop governance for mission-critical environments spanning space and Earth.
Offices: Chicago, US
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