AI Platform Infra Engineer – Top Secret Clearance

Spacex; Hawthorne, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure for Special Programs with a Top Secret clearance. You will build deployment tooling and work with cleared engineers at classified sites to enable reliable operations where help is not available.

You will design and implement the deployment generator, build the bundle pipeline, and manage CI across diverse environments including air-gap targets and cross-profile rendering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
• 1+ years of experience in Go or Python.
• 1+ years of experience with Kubernetes or similar tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the deployment generator.
• Create and maintain platform documentation.
• Build the bundle pipeline.
• Implement profile-driven rendering for cloud/on-prem/air-gap targets.
• Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
• Build the testing and validation framework.
• Integrate with the Supercompute team's operators, Helm charts, and CRDs.
• Own the monitoring stack migration.

Skills

Go

Python

Education

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

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Pulumi/Terraform

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure for Special Programs with a Top Secret clearance. You will build deployment tooling and work with cleared engineers at classified sites to enable reliable operations where help is not available.

You will design and implement the deployment generator, build the bundle pipeline, and manage CI across diverse environments including air-gap targets and cross-profile rendering.