Field Engineer, Public Sector
Washington, D.C., DCFull-time$165–224K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
SpaceXSI is hiring a Field Engineer to partner with public-sector customers evaluating its platform. The role supports federal civilian and defense agencies through technical discovery, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and validation, while collaborating with Sales, Product, and Engineering. The engineer works with customer stakeholders in high-security environments, presents technical concepts, advocates for customer needs, and supports post-sales handoffs and onboarding.
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Full job description
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next. FIELD ENGINEER, PUBLIC SECTOR We're hiring Field Engineers to partner with prospective and strategic customers across Public Sector. You'll be the technical face of SpaceXSI for the federal civilian and defense agencies modernizing how software gets written: helping developers, engineering leaders, and program teams evaluate our platform, running proofs of concept, and making sure they see the full value of agentic coding in their real workflows. You'll work hand-in-hand with Sales, Product, and Engineering as a deal partner, not a demo resource. RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Partner with AEs to own technical discovery, demos, POCs, and technical validation for new deals and expansion
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Build trusted relationships with engineering, security, product, and IT stakeholders across agencies
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Work in mission-critical and high-security environments, including developer workflows, AI tooling, and complex or constrained setups
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Help customers connect our platform to outcomes that matter, including developer productivity, secure software delivery, and mission velocity
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Deliver technical presentations, whiteboards, and workshops for technical and executive audiences
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Act as the customer's technical advocate with Product and Engineering, and partner with post-sales on clean handoffs and onboarding
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
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Experience in Field Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Consulting for enterprise software
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Experience supporting federal, defense, or highly regulated customers
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
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Hands-on software development experience and a working understanding of the SDLC
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Daily use of AI coding tools and experience with constrained or air-gapped environments
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Experience presenting technical concepts to CTOs, CISOs, and program leaders
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Experience co-owning complex, multi-threaded deals with AEs
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Familiarity with Public Sector buying motions, security expectations such as FedRAMP and DoD IL levels, and partner ecosystems
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Active security clearance
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be willing to travel to customer sites as needed
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: The expected annual base salary range for this role is $164,500 - $224,000. This role is also eligible for sales commissions or bonuses, with an annual on-target earnings (OTE) range of $235,000 - $320,000. OTE includes base salary plus target incentive compensation, assuming 100% achievement of applicable performance targets. Actual incentive earnings depend on performance and the terms of the applicable plan. Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,104 open Field Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$165–224K/yr
- US median$85–113K/yr988 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $194K, is 94% above the US median midpoint ($100K) — in the top quarter of Field Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Field Engineer jobs in Washington, D.C. and 2,104 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington, D.C.
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- Experience
- Field Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (1,285 postings).
- Education
- 895 of the 2,104 open Field Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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