Sr. Software Engineer, Data Engineering (X)
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-grade realtime and batch pipelines, create shared datasets and fact tables, build tooling to automate data workflows, own data correctness and root-cause investigations, work across query engines and streaming frameworks, and partner with product and business teams to prioritize data improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience with Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and data pipeline tooling and distributed systems
- Preferred: knowledge of Spark, Kafka, Flink, SQL and RDBMS/NoSQL storage
- Preferred: experience solving large scale problems
- Preferred: ability to turn product requirements into engineering plans
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate realtime and batch data pipelines
- Create shared datasets, fact tables and internal data products
- Prototype and build tooling for backfills, dashboards, reports and self-serve data access
- Own data correctness and lead root-cause investigations of metric changes
- Work across query engines and frameworks such as BigQuery, Trino, Clickhouse, Flink, Kafka and Spark/Scalding
- Partner with product and business teams to identify data gaps
- Iterate quickly on feedback, shipping small useful increments
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short & long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Discounts and perks