Senior AI Engineer, Platform Infra - Classified & Air-Gapped

SpaceX; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 220,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, Special Programs to design and build deterministic tooling used by cleared engineers at classified sites.

The role focuses on a deployment generator, a robust bundle pipeline, and cross-profile CI across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gap environments. You will own the monitoring stack migration, build testing/validation frameworks, and ensure seamless integration with existing infrastructure components.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Go Lang and/or Python.
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing and scaling containerized applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the deployment generator.
• Create and maintain platform documentation.
• Build the bundle pipeline.
• Implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets.
• Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
• Build the testing and validation framework.
• Integrate with the existing Supercompute teams' operators, Helm charts, and CRDs by consuming their work as inputs to the generator without modifying production infrastructure.
• Own the monitoring stack migration.

Skills

Go Lang

Python

Kubernetes

Education

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

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, Special Programs to design and build deterministic tooling used by cleared engineers at classified sites.

The role focuses on a deployment generator, a robust bundle pipeline, and cross-profile CI across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gap environments. You will own the monitoring stack migration, build testing/validation frameworks, and ensure seamless integration with existing infrastructure components.