Software Engineer - X Data

SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. Employees are expected to be hands-on, collaborative, and capable of communicating knowledge clearly across teams.

About the Role

As a Data Engineer in the X product engineering team, you will provide comprehensive data solutions for a wide range of stakeholders, including end-users and internal teams such as Product Engineering, Algorithm, Legal, Finance, and Sales. The work involves AI, distributed computing, and hybrid storage technologies while maximizing the value of data across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade realtime and batch pipelines that ingest, process, validate, and deliver data for user-behavior insights and product decisions.
• Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products to improve product analysis and debugging.
• Prototype and build tooling that automates internal data workflows, including backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-serve data access.
• Own data correctness end to end through validation, reconciliation, and root-cause investigations.
• Work across query engines and frameworks such as BigQuery, Trino, Clickhouse, Flink, Kafka, Spark, and Scalding.
• Partner with product and business teams to identify and prioritize high-impact data opportunities.
• Iterate quickly and deliver efficient, accurate, and reliable solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in data engineering or distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go, or Java.
• Knowledge of realtime and batch data processing tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, and SQL.
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL storage systems.
• Experience solving large-scale engineering problems and building scalable systems.
• Ability to translate product requirements into engineering implementation plans.
• Strong communication skills across technical and business teams.

Compensation and Benefits

• $125,000 - $400,000 USD base salary
• Equity package
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Additional discounts and perks

SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer.