AI Engineer, Supercomputing & Special Programs

SpaceX; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k)

Paid vacation

Job summary

SpaceX in Washington, DC is seeking an AI Engineer for Special Programs Supercomputing to join our cleared team and build tooling that enables frontline engineers in classified environments. You will design deployment generators, document platforms, and maintain pipelines while ensuring deterministic, well-tested solutions.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance eligibility, experience with Go or Python, Kubernetes, and IaC tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• 1+ years of experience in Go or Python.
• 1+ years of experience with Kubernetes or similar tooling.
• Must be eligible for Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the deployment generator.
• Create and maintain platform documentation.
• Build the bundle pipeline.
• Implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets based on profile selection.
• Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
• Build the testing and validation framework.
• Integrate with the existing Supercompute team's operators, Helm charts, and CRDs by consuming their work as inputs to the generator without modifying production infrastructure.
• Own the monitoring stack migration.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Clearance knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Pulumi

Terraform

NVIDIA drivers

CUDA

Job description

SpaceX in Washington, DC is seeking an AI Engineer for Special Programs Supercomputing to join our cleared team and build tooling that enables frontline engineers in classified environments. You will design deployment generators, document platforms, and maintain pipelines while ensuring deterministic, well-tested solutions.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance eligibility, experience with Go or Python, Kubernetes, and IaC tools.