AI Infra Network Engineer — Starshield

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Redmond, Northern (WA, KY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision and dental coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Company shuttle service

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA, is seeking a Network Engineer for AI infrastructure within Starshield to design, deploy, and secure high‑capacity networks supporting national security missions. You will own network design, monitor performance, and drive improvements across data center deployments.

You will collaborate with ML teams on workload patterns, participate in capacity planning, and help build automation for rapid deployments while ensuring security and reliability in top‑secret environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline or 4+ years of networking experience in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ year of networking experience deploying enterprise network solutions and/or cloud and GPU networks.
• Hands on experience with deployment of networking hardware (routers, modems, switch, firewalls, etc.)

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 requirements.
• Contribute to tools for rapid deployments (ZTP/custom provisioning tools).
• Improve network performance and reliability based on system performance metrics and capacity planning.
• Assist in capacity augmentation and network optimization deployments.
• Lead network integration and troubleshooting efforts.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and network engineers to improve Starshield network design.
• Assist in updating system configuration and firmware.
• Build automation for network devices, deployment tools.

Skills

Networking hardware deployment

Network design & optimization

Collaboration with ML teams

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Tools

Cisco

Juniper

Arista

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA, is seeking a Network Engineer for AI infrastructure within Starshield to design, deploy, and secure high‑capacity networks supporting national security missions. You will own network design, monitor performance, and drive improvements across data center deployments.

You will collaborate with ML teams on workload patterns, participate in capacity planning, and help build automation for rapid deployments while ensuring security and reliability in top‑secret environments.