Careers at Xai

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a backend engineer, you’ll design and build scalable, high-performance systems that power subscriptions infrastructure, new monetized products, user growth, and creator monetization. You’ll work on mission-critical infrastructure that processes millions of transactions, optimizes user acquisition and retention, and enables creators to earn a living through their content. This is a unique opportunity to make a large-scale revenue impact while creating products that users and businesses love. RESPONSIBILITIES: Design and build large scale search infrastructure (real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines) that handles massive write and query loads with strict latency and reliability requirements Go deep into search internals (indexing, query execution, and relevance) and help shape the technical direction of the core search infrastructure Operate production services end to end, including monitoring, debugging, incident response, and performance optimization Lead and drive incident responses and recovery with your peers. Review and contribute to incident postmortems and hold a high bar for the same BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: 5+ years developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or experience with storage or hardware architecture. Proficient in high performance Rust, C++ or JVM-based languages Hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies (Elasticsearch, Lucene, or similar) and an understanding of how they work and why Experience with operating system internals, filesystems, networking, or database storage engines Obsessed performance, reliability, scalability and quality Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn whatever is needed to solve them Comfortable moving quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: Contributions to open-source search or infrastructure projects COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS $150,000 - $400,000 USD Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, 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 .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: The X Search team is responsible for building and operating the core search engine that powers discovery on X. We own the full end-to-end search stack — from real-time retrieval and indexing to ranking and the end-user search experience. Our goal is to create the most relevant, fast, and intelligent search experience on the internet by combining state-of-the-art information retrieval systems with Grok’s reasoning capabilities. RESPONSIBILITIES: Build search and retrieval algorithms that scale to millions of users Build and operate large scale search engine and search infrastructure Train state of the art ML ranking models Integrate Grok in search systems and products BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Tech Stack: Python, Go, Rust Have worked with vector databases, search indices, or similar data stores for search applications Have worked on large-scale search systems Have deep experience building or working with production ML systems Take full ownership of problems and learn whatever you need to solve them Can move quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS $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 .

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. About the Role: We are building the high-performance inference platform that serves Grok to millions of users every day with lightning speed and perfect reliability. As a Member of Technical Staff - Inference, you will design and optimize large-scale model serving systems end-to-end. You will own everything from distributed infrastructure (global KV cache, continuous batching, load balancing, auto-scaling) to deep low-level optimizations (GPU kernels, quantization, speculative decoding, tail latency). This is a high-impact role where your work directly determines how fast and reliably users interact with Grok at massive scale Responsibilities: Architect and implement scalable distributed infrastructure for model serving (load balancing, auto-scaling, batch scheduling, global KV cache). Optimize latency and throughput of model inference under real production workloads. Build reliable, high-concurrency serving systems that serve billions of users with 100% uptime, 0% error rate, and excellent tail latency. Benchmark, fine-tune, and accelerate inference engines (including low-level GPU kernel work and code generation). Develop custom tools to trace, replay, and fix issues across the full stack — from orchestration down to GPU kernels. Create robust CI/CD infrastructure for seamless endpoint deployment, image publishing, and inference engine updates. Accelerate research on scaling test-time compute, RL rollout, and model-hardware co-design for next-generation systems. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Deep low-level systems programming (C/C++ or Rust) Experience with large-scale, high-concurrent production serving. Experience with GPU inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, etc.). Strong background in system optimizations: batching, caching, load balancing, parallelism. Low-level inference optimizations: GPU kernels, code generation. Algorithmic inference optimizations: quantization, speculative decoding, distillation, low-precision numerics. Experience with testing, benchmarking, and reliability of inference services. Experience designing and implementing CI/CD infrastructure for inference. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $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 .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: You will join the Grok Voice Model team to help build the world’s best voice AI. We deliver smooth, natural, low-latency spoken interactions — expressive, multilingual, and reliable across devices and real-time scenarios. We own the full training pipeline: massive data curation, premium audio processing, frontier speech-language pre-training, and intensive post-training to push quality, speed, and stability to the limit. Our goal: make talking to AI feel like conversing with the most charming, kind, and knowledgeable person imaginable. We’re seeking exceptionally smart, execution-oriented engineers to help us get there. RESPONSIBILITIES: Design and execute large-scale speech data curation and processing pipelines, including collection of diverse real-world audio, synthetic data generation, and automated annotation workflows to enable high-quality model training and evaluation. Work on pre-training and post-training of speech-language models, with targeted enhancements through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and other techniques to ensure Grok Voice responses are accurate, factually grounded, natural and idiomatic in spoken style, conversational in tone, and fluent across multiple languages. Build and iterate a comprehensive evaluation framework covering objective metrics (accuracy, quality, latency, expressiveness), human preference studies, content factuality assessments, real-time interaction quality, and experimentation infrastructure to measure and improve performance. Work closely with product teams to integrate voice models into applications and real-time environments, define spoken interaction specifications, and handle the full lifecycle from prototype to global-scale deployment for stable, low-latency, delightful voice experiences. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Python expert with deep proficiency in writing clean, efficient code for AI/ML systems. Hands-on experience processing large-scale datasets using tools like Spark and Ray for cleaning, augmentation, and feature extraction. Proficiency in pre-training and post-training speech-language models using JAX/PyTorch, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and optimizations for accuracy, factuality, natural spoken style, detail, and multilingual fluency. Ability to set up and run rigorous evaluation pipelines: objective metrics, human preference studies, content factuality checks, and iterative A/B testing to drive model improvements. Experience building or working with large-scale distributed training and inference systems on Kubernetes. Proactive, self-driven attitude — ready to grind in a fast-paced, high-caliber team to deliver outstanding voice AI experiences. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $150,000 - $450,000 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 .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Data Engineer in X product engineering team, you will play a key role in providing comprehensive data solutions that own or serve a wide range of stakeholders, including our end-users and internal teams such as Product engineering, Algorithm, Legal, Finance and Sales. Our work utilizes AI, distributed computing and hybrid storage technologies, but extends beyond purely data-centric solutions, encompassing non-data-related challenges, ultimately maximizing the potential of data for the benefit of our diverse user base. RESPONSIBILITIES: You'll help build and operate a distributed data platform that powers hundreds of realtime and batch pipelines processing billions of events per day. The team runs like an internal startup — we own problems end to end, from raw event streams to the datasets, tooling, and metrics that product, growth, safety, and business teams depend on daily. In this role you will: Design, build, and operate production-grade realtime and batch pipelines that ingest, process, validate, and deliver data powering user-behavior insights and product decisions. Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products that let other teams analyze, debug, and improve product performance. Prototype and build tooling that automates and accelerates internal data workflows — backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-serve access to data. Own data correctness end to end: validate with output invariants, denominator reconciliation, and independent recomputation, and lead root-cause investigations when key metrics move unexpectedly. Move fluidly across query engines and frameworks (e.g., BigQuery, Trino, Clickhouse for analytics; Flink, Kafka, Spark/Scalding for streaming and batch), choosing the right tool and adapting quickly to new infrastructure and environments. Partner across product and business teams to surface where data gaps exist and prioritize the highest-impact opportunities for new data acquisition and improvement. Iterate quickly on feedback, shipping the smallest useful increment with a strong bias toward efficient, accurate, and reliable solutions. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: We are looking for an engineer with 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in data engineering or distributed systems. Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and data pipeline toolings and distributed systems. Knowledge of realtime and batch data processing tools such as Spark/Kafka/Flink/SQL and various storage systems in RMDBs/NoSQL Experience solving large scale problems and comfortable doing incremental quality work while building brand new systems to enable future quality improvements. Proven records of interpreting product requirements into engineering implementation plans, and effectively communicating with different groups (AI, product, marketing/sales and engineering). COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $125,000 - $400,000 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 .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: The X Developer Platform team owns the partner ecosystem that connects X with B2B and B2C developers around the world. X reaches more than 500 million active users who produce billions of posts every week, and that activity generates signals and capabilities that go far beyond a conversation to listen to: real-time knowledge of what is happening in the world, rich media, commerce, communities, and the connective tissue between people, businesses, and now agents. Our job is to make that value available to developers as the everything API, so that anyone can build products on top of X. Our mission is to help achieve the X Everything app and make X the clear digital townsquare of Earth. We do this by making X data and functionality available through a consistent and reliable API suite, so that developers and the emerging world of agents can realize its full potential. Behind the scenes we collect, process, enrich, and deliver hundreds of billions of signals a day. The products we build are highly available, scalable, optimized, respectful of X's user base, and essential to the customers who depend on them. We work closely with our Product and Business counterparts and directly with customers to shape what we build next. X Developer API Products Include: Real-time delivery of public posts and events, filtered and enriched to match each customer's use case Search and retrieval across the full historical archive of public content on X APIs for creating, publishing, and managing content and interactions programmatically Engagement, audience, and performance data that powers analytics and measurement products Enrichment layers that add context, structure, and relevance signals to raw platform data Interfaces designed for programmatic consumers, enabling agents and automated systems to read from and act on the platform safely Developer tooling, documentation, and self-serve onboarding that make the platform easy to adopt and integrate RESPONSIBILITIES: Collaborate with engineering, product leadership, business leadership, and engineers across the company. Maintain and improve the systems that serve our existing customers while designing and shipping new products that expand what the platform can do. Design clean, reliable, well-abstracted solutions to problems of scale, correctness, and developer experience. Help shape the architecture of the platform as it grows to serve new categories of consumers, including agents and automated systems. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: MS or BS in Computer Science 5+ years of industry experience working on commercial software application or services Distributed Systems experience (Kafka experience is a plus) Experience working with RPC frameworks and microservices Understanding of core CS concepts, such as, common data structures and algorithms Experience with front-end development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $180,000 - $440,000 USD Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, 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 .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance. RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments. Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products. Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms. Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics. Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems. Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems. 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: £107,000 - £262,000 GBP Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage, cash plan, income protection, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance. RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments. Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products. Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms. Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics. Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems. Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems. 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $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 .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: Contribute to AI model training initiatives by curating code examples, offering precise solutions, and providing meticulous corrections in specialized programming languages. Evaluate and refine AI-generated code, ensuring it adheres to industry standards for efficiency, scalability, and reliability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance AI-driven coding solutions, ensuring they meet enterprise-level quality and performance benchmarks. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Professional software engineering experience building scalable, high-performance applications. Deep expertise in one or more programming languages. Strong proficiency in relevant frameworks and libraries. Solid understanding of software design principles, performance optimization, and best practices. Experience implementing quality standards, including accessibility, security, and reliability where applicable. Strong debugging and profiling skills using development tools and performance monitoring. Hands-on experience with testing frameworks and tools relevant to your domain. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: The ideal candidate for this role is adaptable, possesses strong logical reasoning skills, is detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced work environment. Experience integrating analytics, monitoring, and security best practices relevant to your technical domain. Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker). Knowledge of complementary technologies (e.g., backend systems, APIs, databases, authentication) to enable effective cross-functional collaboration. LOCATION AND OTHER EXPECTATIONS: Tutor roles may be offered as full-time, part-time, or contractor positions, depending on role needs and candidate fit. For contractor positions, hours will vary widely based on project scope and contractor availability, with no fixed commitments required. On average most projects may involve at least 10 hours per week to achieve deliverables effectively though this is not a fixed commitment and depends on the scope of work. Contractors have full flexibility to set their own hours and determine the exact amount of time needed to complete deliverables. Tutor roles may be performed remotely from any location worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role specific needs. For US based candidates, please note we are unable to hire in the states of Wyoming and Illinois at this time. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship. For those who will be working from a personal device, your computer must be a Chromebook, Mac with MacOS 11.0 or later, or Windows 10 or later. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: US based candidates: $40/hour - $100/hour depending on factors including relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, and qualifications. International candidates: Information will be provided to you during the recruitment process. Benefits vary based on employment type, location and jurisdiction. Benefits for eligible U.S. based positions include health insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave. Specific details and role specific information will be provided to you during the interview process. SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice .

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. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking an experienced Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Engineer focused on fintech and financial services regulation to help scale compliance for SpaceXAI and xMoney. As we operate deeper in regulated financial environments, maintaining a robust, transparent, and technically sound GRC program is critical. You will architect the systems and processes that automate trust — a pragmatic operator who understands that GRC exists to enable the business, balancing rigorous standards with the velocity of a high-growth company. The ideal candidate brings hands-on fintech compliance experience (PCI DSS, NYDFS, FFIEC), fluency in data privacy frameworks (GDPR, CCPA), and GRC engineering skills: Compliance-as-Code, continuous evidence collection, and deep partnership with engineering so controls are designed into the platform rather than bolted on after the fact. This role may also include additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support the team and evolving business priorities. RESPONSIBILITIES: Own and evolve financial services and payments compliance posture across PCI DSS, NYDFS (including 23 NYCRR 500), FFIEC guidance, and related banking/fintech regulatory expectations supporting xMoney across relevant jurisdictions. Build and maintain Compliance-as-Code capabilities — policy-as-code, automated control validation, continuous evidence collection, and monitoring integrated into CI/CD — so audit readiness scales with the business rather than depending on manual, point-in-time checks. Operate and extend GRC platforms (e.g., Vanta) as the backbone for control mapping, evidence management, and continuous compliance; integrate with cloud, identity, logging, and engineering systems to reduce administrative bottlenecks. Partner with Architects and Engineering Leads to bake compliance and privacy requirements; translate complex regulatory obligations into concrete technical implementations and auditor-ready narratives without slowing development. Design, implement, and validate technical controls relevant to fintech environments (cardholder data environment scoping and segmentation, access control, logging, encryption, change management, vulnerability management) — not just document them. Operate the cybersecurity and compliance risk register — identify, quantify, and track risks, distinguishing theoretical gaps from meaningful business and regulatory risk. Lead risk assessments and compliance reviews for new products, payment flows, features, vendors, and architectural changes that affect the regulated attack surface. Own and cultivate relationships with external auditors, assessors (e.g., QSAs where applicable), and regulators; serve as the bridge between auditors and internal teams so requests are reasonable, clear, and relevant to our stack. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve policies, standards, and procedures aligned to PCI, NYDFS, FFIEC, privacy laws, and complementary frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) where they overlap. Champion pragmatic governance — prioritize issues that represent real security or business risk over checkbox compliance. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or in an engineering/STEM field. 8+ years of experience in GRC, security compliance, or technology audit roles in fintech, banking, payments, or other heavily regulated financial environments. Hands-on experience with PCI DSS and at least one of NYDFS (23 NYCRR 500) or FFIEC cybersecurity/IT examination guidance — including implementing or operating controls, not only reading the requirements. Experience with Compliance-as-Code practices and GRC automation tooling (e.g., Vanta, or similar), with a bias toward continuous monitoring and reducing manual evidence collection. Technical fluency sufficient to speak the language of engineering, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), and security architecture, and to anticipate how design decisions impact risk and compliance. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: 10+ years of security compliance, GRC engineering, or technology audit-related experience in fintech or financial services. Hands-on experience implementing technical controls (e.g., IAM, logging and monitoring, encryption, network segmentation, infrastructure hardening) and integrating compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines. Experience supporting SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 programs alongside fintech-specific obligations. Experience with payment ecosystems, cardholder data environments, tokenization, or similar PCI-scoped architectures. Working knowledge of data privacy frameworks including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, and experience partnering with Legal or Privacy. Familiarity with additional financial regulatory regimes (e.g., GLBA, BSA/AML technology controls, state money-transmitter expectations, or international banking rules in the EU, UK, or other markets, e.g DORA) is valuable. Experience enabling enterprise sales through trust centers, vendor questionnaires, and customer security reviews. Proven ability to operate a risk register and apply judgment in gray areas — focusing on outcomes over optics. Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills, with the ability to take compliance programs from conception to assessment-ready launch. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills — able to explain regulatory and privacy requirements to engineers, legal, sales, and executives in plain language. Certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PCIP, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, or similar preferred. Experience with emerging AI-related financial services expectations or securing AI features in a regulated fintech product is a plus. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $152,000 - $258,000 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. ITAR REQUIREMENTS: To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here . SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice .