Join to apply for the Staff Software Engineer, Bellwether role at X, The Moonshot Factory
Join to apply for the Staff Software Engineer, Bellwether role at X, The Moonshot Factory
Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.
About X, The Moonshot Factory
X is a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs who build and launch technologies that aim to improve the lives of millions, even billions, of people. Our goal: 10x impact on the world’s most intractable problems, not just 10% improvement. We approach projects that have the aspiration and riskiness of research with the speed and ambition of a startup.
About X, The Moonshot Factory
X is a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs who build and launch technologies that aim to improve the lives of millions, even billions, of people. Our goal: 10x impact on the world’s most intractable problems, not just 10% improvement. We approach projects that have the aspiration and riskiness of research with the speed and ambition of a startup.
About The Team
Our team – Bellwether – operates at the intersection of machine learning, geospatial data, and pressing issues with enterprise customers, governments, and more. We focus on severe weather manifestations of climate change, such as wildfires, and aim to use a wide range of data and analytics to better understand and predict what these events could mean for communities and businesses across the globe. We do this through the detection and classification of the features and patterns of the natural and built worlds, the application of cutting-edge machine learning, and the redesign of the full geo-ML workflow. This work extends into development and production-level work as well, as Bellwether also has a number of products that are live with customers. The result: tools and models that allow a range of industries to better leverage earth observation insights.
About The Role
You will be a hands-on engineer, contributing to all aspects of the project’s development and deployment of applications. We are looking for a motivated, expert-level generalist with broad experience across systems architecture and design in one or more cloud platforms. Our team is small but mighty and highly collaborative, and values pair programming and cooperative ideation. We are committed to the agile principles and rely heavily on this framework for efficient sprints and cycles. We are looking for passionate and driven people, who are comfortable moving between creative, big-picture thinking and specifics of how to execute. We operate in a fast-paced, fluid environment as our team moves from early stage development into production phases.
How You Will Make 10x Impact
- Embracing your ability to be an ‘expert generalist’, enjoying the fluidity of moving from architecting new production systems, to machine learning, to security and monitoring. From high level strategy to specific tactics.
- Help drive and execute key decisions on software architecture and features, balancing business needs and our technology roadmap, balancing longevity with rapid prototyping
- Contribute as a key team member to the creation of new systems and processes to ensure high quality development, deployment, and maintenance of live applications in production environments
- Create and maintain Google Cloud Platform-based infrastructure for software development and high-volume production systems.
- Present findings to team members, internal and external stakeholders, and help set a direction for future development.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 7 years experience with parts of the machine learning development pipeline: research, experimentation, and ML-Ops
- Production-level experience with a wide variety of backend tasks, including code development, designing for,implementing, and managing security measures and controls, troubleshooting and debugging, designing and implementing code testing processes, and monitoring deployed application’s performance and health.
- Experience with numerous common software design patterns (for example, Observer, Decorator, Visitor, Producer/Consumer, etc).
- Experience working on an early stage project and environment where prototype technologies are evolved into a production phase.
- Experience with open source tools such as: Git, TensorFlow, Apache Beam/Dataflow, Google Compute Engine.
- Mastery of one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to Python
- An ability to thrive in an Agile-driven team: iteratively sprinting toward goals and products, contributing new ideas, standards, and processes.
- Experience interfacing with customers
- Experience working with a wide variety of geospatial data
- Experience in Machine Learning Operations - scaling existing machine learning applications into production
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
Seniority level
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries
Research
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at X, The Moonshot Factory by 2x
Sign in to set job alerts for “Staff Software Engineer” roles.
Palo Alto, CA $160,000.00-$180,000.00 2 weeks ago
Mountain View, CA $145,000.00-$170,000.00 1 week ago
Mountain View, CA $138,225.00-$207,575.00 1 week ago
Software Engineer, AI Platform - New Grad
Mountain View, CA $145,000.00-$170,000.00 1 week ago
Graduate Software Engineer (Redwood City, CA)
Software Engineer (L4), Content & Business Products
San Francisco Bay Area $160,000.00-$180,000.00 2 weeks ago
San Jose, CA $100,500.00-$173,250.00 3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA $96,000.00-$200,000.00 2 weeks ago
Mountain View, CA $130,000.00-$176,000.00 5 days ago
Palo Alto, CA $107,000.00-$145,400.00 2 weeks ago
San Jose, CA $113,400.00-$206,300.00 1 week ago
San Jose, CA $113,400.00-$206,300.00 1 week ago
Palo Alto, CA $115,000.00-$260,000.00 2 weeks ago
eCommerce Full Stack Developer (React / Shopify) - On Site
San Jose, CA $113,400.00-$206,300.00 1 week ago
San Jose, CA $93,200.00-$170,600.00 1 week ago
San Jose, CA $113,400.00-$206,300.00 1 week ago
Software Engineer - New Grad (2026 Start)
Menlo Park, CA $157,000.00-$230,000.00 2 weeks ago
San Jose, CA $113,400.00-$206,300.00 1 week ago
San Jose, CA $113,400.00-$206,300.00 1 week ago
Software Development Engineer - Front End
San Jose, CA $133,900.00-$242,000.00 4 days ago
We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
#J-18808-Ljbffr