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AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance will join the Special Programs Supercomputing team to build deterministic, foolproof tooling for engineers operating in classified environments. The role involves designing a deployment generator, creating a bundle pipeline, and implementing profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets. Key responsibilities include maintaining platform documentation, building a testing and validation framework, and owning the monitoring stack migration while integrating with existing Helm charts and CRDs. Candidates must possess skills in Go Lang, Python, and Kubernetes. Preferred experience includes CI/CD pipelines using Buildkite or GitHub Actions, Infrastructure-as-Code via Pulumi or Terraform, and Linux systems. Technical domain knowledge includes GPU infrastructure, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking, and bare metal provisioning technologies like PXE boot and cloud-init.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 86 postings across 12 companies.
Implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets.
Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
Build the testing and validation framework.
Integrate with existing Supercompute operators, Helm charts, and CRDs as generator inputs.
Own the monitoring stack migration.
Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline.
1+ years of experience in Go Lang and/or Python.
1+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing and scaling containerized applications.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Must be able to successfully obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent) (preferred).
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform) and understanding of state management tradeoffs (preferred).
Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling where all dependencies must be pre-staged (preferred).