Software Engineer - X Data Engineering
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and operate production data pipelines, datasets, and internal data products. You will improve data correctness, create workflow tooling, investigate metric changes, and work across analytics, streaming, batch, and storage systems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in data engineering or distributed systems.
- Expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go, or Java.
- Knowledge of data-pipeline tooling and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of Spark, Kafka, Flink, SQL, relational databases, NoSQL, and storage systems.
- Experience solving large-scale problems.
- Experience translating product requirements into engineering implementation plans.
- Ability to communicate with AI, product, marketing, sales, and engineering groups.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate real-time and batch data pipelines.
- Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products.
- Build tooling for backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-service data access.
- Own end-to-end data correctness and lead root-cause investigations.
- Select and use query engines and frameworks for analytics, streaming, and batch processing.
- Identify data gaps and prioritize data-acquisition improvements.
- Deliver efficient, accurate, and reliable incremental solutions.
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Discounts and perks