Senior AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs

SpaceX

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Work type
On-site
Location
Washington, DCHawthorne, CAPalo Alto, CARedmond, WA
Salary
$220,000–$350,000 / yr
Posted
159 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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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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TL;DR · Senior AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs

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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What you'll do

  • Design and build the deployment generator.
  • Build and maintain the bundle pipeline.
  • Implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets.
  • Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
  • Build the testing and validation framework.
  • Integrate with existing Supercompute operators, Helm charts, and CRDs as generator inputs.
  • Own the monitoring stack migration.
  • Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in Go Lang and/or Python.
  • 5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing and scaling containerized applications.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent) (preferred).
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform) and understanding of state management tradeoffs (preferred).
  • Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling where all dependencies must be pre-staged (preferred).
  • TOP SECRET CLEARANCE.

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