Senior AI Engineer — Classified Supercomputing

Starlink; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, dental

401(k)

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer for Special Programs Supercomputing to design tooling and work with cleared engineers at classified sites. You will build deterministic, well-tested, foolproof solutions that enable engineers operating in restricted environments.

The role requires Top Secret clearance eligibility, hands-on experience with Go/Python, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation, and a willingness to travel to government sites. SpaceX offers comprehensive benefits and compensation.'

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in GoLang and/or Python.
• 5+ years of Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating and scaling containerized apps.

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 Supercompute operators, Helm charts, and CRDs.
• Own the monitoring stack migration.

Skills

Go / Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Linux systems

Air-gap tooling

GPU infrastructure

Bare metal provisioning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, math, engineering, physics, data science

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Helm charts

CRDs

Pulumi or Terraform

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer for Special Programs Supercomputing to design tooling and work with cleared engineers at classified sites. You will build deterministic, well-tested, foolproof solutions that enable engineers operating in restricted environments.

The role requires Top Secret clearance eligibility, hands-on experience with Go/Python, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation, and a willingness to travel to government sites. SpaceX offers comprehensive benefits and compensation.'