AI Platform Infra Engineer — Classified Programs (Top Secret)

SpaceX; Union Hill-Novelty Hill (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an experienced AI Engineer in Platform Infrastructure to build deterministic deployment tooling for environments including classified sites. You will enable engineers to operate without on-site support, with strong emphasis on testing, documentation, and CI pipelines.

The role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, willingness to travel, and readiness for extended hours as needed.

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

Container tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an experienced AI Engineer in Platform Infrastructure to build deterministic deployment tooling for environments including classified sites. You will enable engineers to operate without on-site support, with strong emphasis on testing, documentation, and CI pipelines.

The role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, willingness to travel, and readiness for extended hours as needed.