AI Platform Infra Engineer – Classified Programs

SpaceX; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Comprehensive medical, vision, dental

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure to design and build deployment tooling for secure, deterministically operable environments used by classified sites. You will own the end-to-end pipelines, CI matrix, and monitoring migration, engaging with the Supercompute team to leverage existing inputs while preserving production integrity.

The role requires a BS in a technical field and hands-on experience with Go or Python, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling, with readiness for extended

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline.
• 1+ years of experience in Go Lang and/or Python.
• 1+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing and scaling containerized applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the deployment generator.
• Create and maintain platform documentation.
• Build the bundle pipeline.
• Implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets based on profile selection.
• Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
• Build the testing and validation framework.
• Integrate with the existing Supercompute team's operators, Helm charts, and CRDs by consuming their work as inputs to the generator without modifying production infrastructure.
• Own the monitoring stack migration.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Linux

Air-gapped tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

NVIDIA drivers

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure to design and build deployment tooling for secure, deterministically operable environments used by classified sites. You will own the end-to-end pipelines, CI matrix, and monitoring migration, engaging with the Supercompute team to leverage existing inputs while preserving production integrity.

The role requires a BS in a technical field and hands-on experience with Go or Python, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling, with readiness for extended