Senior AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs
SpaceX
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $152,137–$235,487 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $285k versus about $194k for comparable roles.
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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 851 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 590 roles with salary data.
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As a Sr. AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance, you will join the Special Programs Supercomputing team to build deterministic, foolproof tooling for engineers operating in classified environments. Your primary responsibilities include designing the deployment generator, creating the bundle pipeline, and implementing profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets. You will also build the testing and validation framework, manage the monitoring stack migration, and integrate with existing Helm charts and CRDs. The role requires proficiency in Go Lang, Python, and Kubernetes for scaling containerized applications. You will utilize Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Pulumi or Terraform, manage Linux systems, and work with GPU infrastructure including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, and InfiniBand networking to solve complex deployment challenges in disconnected environments.
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