AI Infrastructure Engineer — GPU & On-Prem Kubernetes

SpaceX; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options and long‑term incentives

Discretionary bonuses

Comprehensive medical, vision, dental

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to design, deploy, and scale AI GPU infrastructure and services. The role spans Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and GPU platforms, focusing on on‑premise compute resources, automation, and highly scalable software products.

Collaboration with AI teams is essential for reliability and performance. You will work on Kubernetes clusters, databases, monitoring, and storage, while contributing to the full lifecycle from

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

CI/CD

Networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or Engineering

Tools

OCI containers

Bazel

Makefiles

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to design, deploy, and scale AI GPU infrastructure and services. The role spans Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and GPU platforms, focusing on on‑premise compute resources, automation, and highly scalable software products.

Collaboration with AI teams is essential for reliability and performance. You will work on Kubernetes clusters, databases, monitoring, and storage, while contributing to the full lifecycle from