AI Infra Engineer: GPU Clusters & On‑Prem Systems

Spacex; Hawthorne, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, dental

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield). You’ll design, operate, and scale the on-prem GPU and AI infrastructure to support critical national security missions, collaborating with AI engineers and cross-functional teams.

Focus areas include automation, Kubernetes clusters, Terraform/Ansible, and performance optimization. Requires 1+ years SRE/DevOps or 3+ years without a degree; Top Secret clearance is a plus.

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

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Python

C++

Go

Bash scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline

Tools

OCI containers

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield). You’ll design, operate, and scale the on-prem GPU and AI infrastructure to support critical national security missions, collaborating with AI engineers and cross-functional teams.

Focus areas include automation, Kubernetes clusters, Terraform/Ansible, and performance optimization. Requires 1+ years SRE/DevOps or 3+ years without a degree; Top Secret clearance is a plus.