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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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As a Sr. AI Engineer on the Special Programs Supercomputing team, you will design and build deterministic, foolproof tooling for engineers operating in classified environments. Your daily responsibilities include building the deployment generator, bundle pipeline, and testing and validation framework while maintaining platform documentation. You will implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets, and own the monitoring stack migration. The role requires proficiency in Go Lang and Python, along with experience in Kubernetes for scaling containerized applications. You will utilize Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Pulumi or Terraform, manage container images, and work with GPU infrastructure including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, and InfiniBand. You must also handle bare metal provisioning using technologies like PXE boot and cloud-init for disconnected deployment environments.
What does a AI Engineer earn in California?
Median $246150 from 86 postings across 12 companies.