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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.
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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 building a testing and validation framework, owning the monitoring stack migration, and integrating with existing Helm charts and CRDs. Candidates must possess skills in Go Lang, Python, and Kubernetes for scaling containerized applications. Preferred experience includes CI/CD pipelines using Buildkite or GitHub Actions, Infrastructure-as-Code with Pulumi or Terraform, and Linux systems. Technical domain knowledge includes GPU infrastructure, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking, and bare metal provisioning technologies like PXE boot and squashfs.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 86 postings across 12 companies.