AI Platform Infra Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

Front Door Defense; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical coverage

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

ESPP

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure in Redmond, WA to build a deterministic, testable platform for classified AI engineers. You will design deployment tooling, maintain cross-profile pipelines, and ensure robust CI/CD and monitoring across environments, including air-gapped targets.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance; compensation ranges from $135,000 to $230,000 per year with comprehensive benefits and long-term incentives. Travel up to 20% may be needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or engineering fields.
• 1+ years of Go/Python experience.
• 1+ years working 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 public cloud, on-prem, and air-gap targets.
• Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
• Build the testing and validation framework.
• Integrate with existing teams by consuming inputs to the generator without modifying production infra.
• Own the monitoring stack migration.

Skills

Go/Python

Kubernetes

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Pulumi

Terraform

Docker

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure in Redmond, WA to build a deterministic, testable platform for classified AI engineers. You will design deployment tooling, maintain cross-profile pipelines, and ensure robust CI/CD and monitoring across environments, including air-gapped targets.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance; compensation ranges from $135,000 to $230,000 per year with comprehensive benefits and long-term incentives. Travel up to 20% may be needed.