Senior AI Engineer: Supercomputing for Classified Programs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Discretionary bonuses

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

Vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr AI Engineer in the Supercomputing, Special Programs area to design and build tooling for cleared engineers at classified sites. The role emphasizes deterministic, well-tested tooling and close collaboration with the Supercompute team to enable operations in air-gapped and secured environments.

The candidate should have a Bachelor's in a relevant field and 5+ years in Go or Python and Kubernetes, with the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance and to work extended hours

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline.
• 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 based on profile selection.
• Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
• Build the testing and validation framework.
• Integrate with the existing Supercompute team's 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

Python

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr AI Engineer in the Supercomputing, Special Programs area to design and build tooling for cleared engineers at classified sites. The role emphasizes deterministic, well-tested tooling and close collaboration with the Supercompute team to enable operations in air-gapped and secured environments.

The candidate should have a Bachelor's in a relevant field and 5+ years in Go or Python and Kubernetes, with the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance and to work extended hours