Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CAPalo AltoRedmond, WAWashington, DC
Salary: $125,000–$160,000 / yr
Posted: 10 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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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.

SpaceX currently has 796 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

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The Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) joins the team responsible for the world’s largest US government satellite constellation. This role focuses on designing, operating, and scaling infrastructure to support critical national security missions. You will manage GPU and CPU infrastructure deployments in Top Secret data centers, providing GPU as a service on bare metal and virtualized platforms. Key responsibilities include productizing solutions for AI clusters at a 100k+ GPU scale, developing automation for on-premise Kubernetes and AI clusters, and managing databases, monitoring, and distributed storage. Required technical skills include Linux, Terraform, Ansible, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. Candidates should possess development experience in Python, C++, or Go, along with networking knowledge of TCP/IP and experience with NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks.

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Skills

Kubernetes Python Terraform Ansible C++ Go Linux Bash NVIDIA GPU TCP/IP Bazel Makefiles OCI Containers Monitoring Site Reliability Engineering DevOps

What you'll do

Manage GPU and CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret data centers.
Provide GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal and virtualized platforms.
Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters at a 100k+ GPU scale.
Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes, AI clusters, and operating systems.
Deploy and manage core infrastructure including databases, monitoring, and distributed storage.
Monitor and alert supporting systems to ensure high availability.
Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions to enhance system availability.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or engineering and 1+ years of SRE or DevOps experience; OR 3+ years of SRE or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools.
Experience with containerization technologies such as OCI containers or Kubernetes.
Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages.
Development experience in Python, C++, or Go.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee eligible for Department of State authorization.
Ability to successfully obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance.

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