Network Engineer, AI Infra for Starshield — Top Secret

InvestedintheMission; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonuses

Health, vision, and dental insurance

401(k)

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Network Engineer for the Starshield AI infrastructure to own the data center network design and deployment, ensuring security and reliability across high-performance interconnects. You will drive optimization, automation, and capacity planning while coordinating with ML teams and hardware engineers.

You will work on Top Secret deployments, travel as needed, and participate in on-call rotations, with compensation ranges and strong benefits described in the offer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline or 4+ years of relevant networking experience.
• 1+ year of networking experience deploying enterprise network solutions and/or cloud and GPU networks.
• Layer-1 experience (e.g., transport, DWDM, optical fiber, circuit troubleshooting).
• Hands-on experience deploying networking hardware (routers, switches, firewalls).

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 training teams to translate workload patterns into interconnect topology requirements.
• Contribute to tools for rapid deployments (ZTP/custom provisioning).
• Improve network performance and reliability using performance metrics and capacity planning.
• 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 devices and deployment tools.

Skills

Layer-1 experience

Network hardware deployment

BGP/OSPF/VXLAN

Datacenter networks

Security functions

Automation

Collaboration with ML teams

Top Secret clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Master’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Tools

Cisco

Juniper

Arista

InfiniBand/NVLink

ZTP/custom provisioning tools

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Network Engineer for the Starshield AI infrastructure to own the data center network design and deployment, ensuring security and reliability across high-performance interconnects. You will drive optimization, automation, and capacity planning while coordinating with ML teams and hardware engineers.

You will work on Top Secret deployments, travel as needed, and participate in on-call rotations, with compensation ranges and strong benefits described in the offer.