AI Infrastructure Engineer

Company Overview

WarpWare is opening space for all through software innovation. Space accessibility is our highest priority in everything we do. Since our creation, we have become one of Denver’s most innovative space startups, specializing in helping spacecraft get to space fast.

Role Summary

WarpWare is seeking an AI Infrastructure Engineer to build the WarpWare AI infrastructure into a best-in-class environment for space software development. The role also includes research and development and support for contracts with a variety of commercial and government customers. Successful candidates will demonstrate a high degree of ownership, independence, and problem solving skills regardless of experience.

Responsibilities

This role supports engineering work across the space domain, including rocket launch, rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO), Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous (GEO) operations, and cislunar operations.

• Design, develop, and test AI skills, tools, and agents that accelerate space software development
• Extend and harden existing WarpWare AI infrastructure
• Interface regularly with WarpWare engineers and customers to identify high-value workflows
• Build and maintain databases and knowledge stores of space-specific data, including flight data, requirements, documentation, and code
• Build, fine-tune, and configure small and local language models on space-specific data, including for air-gapped and export-controlled environments
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure AI performance and reliability on real engineering tasks
• Think creatively to develop innovative solutions to challenging problems
• Develop software in Python and (to a lesser extent) C++
• Shape the future of the WarpWare platform

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field
• Demonstrated experience exercising strong ownership of complex problems
• Willingness to challenge others and be challenged
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
• Strong coding and problem solving skills
• Must be eligible to perform EAR / ITAR work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building LLM-powered tools, agents, or harnesses (e.g., tool use, MCP, retrieval-augmented generation)
• Experience fine-tuning, quantizing, or deploying open-weight or local language models
• Experience with relational and vector databases
• Experience using Python and C++
• Experience working on space software projects

Compensation & Benefits

SALARY: $130,000 - $185,000

HEALTHCARE: Company subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

BENEFITS: WarpWare equity ownership, 401(K), flexible PTO

WarpWare is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.