AI Solutions Engineer

Job overview

The AI Solutions Engineer role is onsite in Mojave, CA, with an annual salary range of $142,000–$165,000 and a 9/80 schedule. Stratolaunch advances aerospace and defense technologies through reusable hypersonic flight testing, using Talon-A vehicles to provide operationally realistic flight data. The engineer builds and operates infrastructure, integrations, and developer tools that make AI capabilities usable across vehicle design, manufacturing, flight-test, and business teams. The role supports reliable, observable AI workloads and practical integrations with internal applications and services.

What you'll do

• Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure for ML, LLM, and RAG workloads, including AWS model operations
• host, maintain, monitor, and optimize retrieval systems such as Qdrant
• develop logging, observability, and alerting
• support model deployment, inference, and production operations
• integrate commercial, third-party, open-source, and custom AI tools
• develop APIs, plugins, and reusable integrations
• collaborate with software, data, infrastructure, security, and domain teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

ai solutions engineer

ai platform

mlops

llm

rag

aws

qdrant

mojave ca

stratolaunch

$142k–$165k/year

full-time

9/80 schedule

no travel

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs
• paid maternity and parental leave
• 401(k) company match
• tuition reimbursement.

Why this role

Focuses on operationalizing AI for aerospace vehicle design, manufacturing, and flight-test teams; no travel required.

About the employer

Stratolaunch, LLC is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.