AI Infra Network Engineer for Starshield Data Centers

SpaceX; Union Hill-Novelty Hill (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company stock

Long-term incentives

Medical, vision & dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to drive operation, build and deploy the Starshield data center network supporting critical national security missions. You will own network design, monitor security and performance, and implement improvements across interconnect topology and deployment tooling.

You will collaborate with ML teams for workload patterns, work on high-speed connectivity solutions, and participate in on-call rotations and potential travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering discipline or 4+ years of professional networking experience.
• 1+ year of networking experience deploying enterprise network solutions and/or cloud and GPU networks (internship/co-op qualifies).
• Layer-1 experience (e.g., transport, DWDM, optical fiber, circuit troubleshooting, activations).
• Hands on experience with the deployment of networking hardware (routers, modems, switches, firewalls).

Responsibilities

• Manage network infrastructure and deployments to Top Secret data centers.
• Design, validate, and productize high-speed copper and optical connectivity solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
• Collaborate with ML training teams to translate workload patterns into interconnect topology and optical reconfigurability requirements.
• Contribute to tools for rapid deployments (ZTP/custom provisioning tools).
• Improve network performance and reliability based on system metrics including capacity planning and failure remediation.
• Lead network integration and troubleshooting efforts.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and network engineers to improve Starshield network design.
• Build automation for network devices, operational and deployment tools.

Skills

Layer-1 experience

Networking hardware deployment

Top Secret clearance eligibility

Independent and team worker

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Tools

ZTP/tools provisioning

NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks (Blackwell/Rubin)

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to drive operation, build and deploy the Starshield data center network supporting critical national security missions. You will own network design, monitor security and performance, and implement improvements across interconnect topology and deployment tooling.

You will collaborate with ML teams for workload patterns, work on high-speed connectivity solutions, and participate in on-call rotations and potential travel.