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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.
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Sr. AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, Special Programs will join the Platform Infrastructure team to build robust tooling for engineers operating in classified environments where remote assistance is unavailable. The role involves designing and building a deployment generator, maintaining platform documentation, creating bundle pipelines, and implementing profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and air-gapped targets. Key responsibilities include managing the cross-profile CI matrix, developing testing and validation frameworks, migrating monitoring stacks, and owning bare metal provisioning pipelines. The position requires proficiency in Go Lang or Python, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Pulumi or Terraform. Candidates should possess experience with CI/CD systems, container image management, Linux systems, and GPU infrastructure including NVIDIA drivers and CUDA. This role specifically addresses the challenge of creating deterministic, foolproof deployment tooling for disconnected environments where all dependencies must be pre-staged.
What does a AI Engineer earn?
Median $211200 from 132 postings across 36 companies.
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Large Language Models
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Docker
Kubernetes
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open-source
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