AI Infra Engineer for 100k+ GPU Scale (TS Clearance)

Spacex; Washington; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation

10+ paid holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

SpaceX is hiring a Software Engineer to scale AI infrastructure for Starshield, spanning GPU clusters, on-prem compute resources, and Kubernetes-based systems. You will collaborate with AI engineers and platform teams to build scalable, reliable services that support critical national security missions.

The role focuses on SRE/DevOps practices, system automation, and maintaining high availability across large-scale GPU deployments, with opportunities for growth and security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 1+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps; OR 3+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
• Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Responsibilities

• Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms
• Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes\AI clusters, and operating systems
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
• Closely collaborate with AI engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Python

C++

Go

Bash scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related engineering field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX is hiring a Software Engineer to scale AI infrastructure for Starshield, spanning GPU clusters, on-prem compute resources, and Kubernetes-based systems. You will collaborate with AI engineers and platform teams to build scalable, reliable services that support critical national security missions.

The role focuses on SRE/DevOps practices, system automation, and maintaining high availability across large-scale GPU deployments, with opportunities for growth and security clearance.