Network Engineer — AI Infrastructure for Starshield

InvestedintheMission; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation

10+ paid holidays per year

Sick leave policy

Job summary

SpaceX in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield). You will drive operation and deployment of the Starshield data center network, own the network design, and implement improvements for more capabilities and customers.

This role requires Top Secret clearance eligibility, a technical degree or equivalent experience, and hands-on work with L1 transport, optical fiber, and hardware like routers and switches. Travel and on-call rotations may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline or 4+ years of professional networking experience.
• 1+ year of networking experience deploying enterprise/gpu networks (internship/co-op qualifies).
• L1 experience (transport, DWDM, optical fiber, troubleshooting, activations).
• Hands-on deployment of networking hardware (routers, switches, firewalls).

Responsibilities

• Manage network infrastructure and deployments to Top Secret data centers.
• Design and productize high-speed copper and optical connectivity for AI clusters (100k+ GPU).
• Collaborate with ML teams to map workload patterns to interconnect topology.
• Contribute to deployment tools (ZTP / provisioning).
• Improve performance and reliability using system metrics and capacity planning.
• Lead network integration and troubleshooting; coordinate with hardware/software teams.
• Update system configuration and firmware; build network automation tooling.

Skills

Network engineering

Independent / team work

Willing to travel

Security clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical field

4+ years networking experience (in lieu of degree)

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Routers & switches

DWDM / optical fiber

ZTP / provisioning tools

BGP / OSPF / VXLAN

InfiniBand / NVLink

NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks

Job description

SpaceX in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield). You will drive operation and deployment of the Starshield data center network, own the network design, and implement improvements for more capabilities and customers.

This role requires Top Secret clearance eligibility, a technical degree or equivalent experience, and hands-on work with L1 transport, optical fiber, and hardware like routers and switches. Travel and on-call rotations may be required.