Senior AI Engineer, Supercomputing & Special Programs

SpaceX; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k)

Medical benefits

Paid vacation

Job summary

SpaceX is recruiting a Sr. AI Engineer for Special Programs in Supercomputing to build tooling and work with cleared engineers at classified sites. You will design deployment generators, build pipelines, and validate frameworks, enabling precise operations in air-gapped and cloud environments.

This role demands TS clearance and extended hours when needed. The position emphasizes deterministic, thoroughly tested tooling and close collaboration with the Supercompute team to ensure production

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 working 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 Lang

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Math/Physics

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Job description

SpaceX is recruiting a Sr. AI Engineer for Special Programs in Supercomputing to build tooling and work with cleared engineers at classified sites. You will design deployment generators, build pipelines, and validate frameworks, enabling precise operations in air-gapped and cloud environments.

This role demands TS clearance and extended hours when needed. The position emphasizes deterministic, thoroughly tested tooling and close collaboration with the Supercompute team to ensure production