The opportunity
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 enabling human life on Mars.
What you'll do
Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing sourcing team focused on: high-quality data acquisition across major taxonomy categories (e.g., agentic tool use, coding)
Define category strategies in partnership with engineering and model: performance teams and come up with creative strategies to build a strong pipeline of exclusive and proprietary enterprise datasets
Oversee the global supplier network and end-to-end sourcing and supplier: qualification to meet aggressive acquisition and delivery targets
Negotiate major agreements focused on pricing, volume, quality, exclusivity,: and reliable delivery, committing budget only to datasets that meaningfully improve model performance
Continuously improve, standardize, and scale sourcing processes, workflows, tools, and planning systems
Track team and category KPIs; provide regular updates and recommendations to senior leadership
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience working in one or more of the: following; or 10+ years of experience working in one or more of the following in lieu of a degree: Business
- Strategy and operations
- Technical understanding of AI training data, including annotations,: evaluations, research datasets, and how dataset quality affects model performance
- Experience in fast-paced AI, ML, or data infrastructure environments