AI Infrastructure Network Engineer – Starshield

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Discretionary bonuses

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

3 weeks vacation + 10+ holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) in Hawthorne, CA. You will drive operation and deployment of the Starshield data center network supporting critical national security missions, owning network design and implementing improvements for capabilities and customers.

You will monitor security, improve performance and reliability, and optimize deployments while collaborating with hardware, software, and ML teams. Top Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline or 4+ years of professional networking experience.
• 1+ year of networking experience deploying enterprise solutions or cloud and GPU networks.
• Hands-on experience deploying networking hardware (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.).
• Preferred: Master’s degree in a technical discipline.
• Experience with datacenter networks including Ethernet, IPv4/IPv6, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, and switching.

Responsibilities

• Manage network infrastructure and deployments to Top Secret data centers.
• Design, validate, and productize high-speed connectivity for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
• Collaborate with ML teams to map workload patterns to interconnect topologies.
• Develop tools for rapid deployments (ZTP / custom provisioning).
• Improve network performance and reliability using 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.
• Update system configuration and firmware.
• Build automation for network devices and deployment tools.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

4+ years networking experience

1+ year networking experience

Hands-on networking hardware

BGP

OSPF

VXLAN

InfiniBand/NVLink

NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks

Cisco certifications

Education

Master’s degree in engineering

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks

InfiniBand/NVLink

Cisco certifications

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) in Hawthorne, CA. You will drive operation and deployment of the Starshield data center network supporting critical national security missions, owning network design and implementing improvements for capabilities and customers.

You will monitor security, improve performance and reliability, and optimize deployments while collaborating with hardware, software, and ML teams. Top Secret clearance is required.