AI Infrastructure Engineer — GPU Clusters & SRE

SpaceX; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Palo Alto is seeking a Software Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield). You will design, operate, and scale GPU-backed infrastructure to support critical national security missions, including on‑premise compute resources and Kubernetes clusters.

Collaborate with AI engineers to build scalable software, automate deployments, monitor systems, and improve service availability. Requires Linux, Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, and Python/C++/Go; Top Secret clearance is required or

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

Bash

Python

C++

Go

Education

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

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

SpaceX in Palo Alto is seeking a Software Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield). You will design, operate, and scale GPU-backed infrastructure to support critical national security missions, including on‑premise compute resources and Kubernetes clusters.

Collaborate with AI engineers to build scalable software, automate deployments, monitor systems, and improve service availability. Requires Linux, Terraform/Ansible, Kubernetes, and Python/C++/Go; Top Secret clearance is required or