Senior AI Infra Engineer: GPU-Driven On-Prem AI Clusters

InvestedintheMission; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Comprehensive medical/vision/dental

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to design, operate, and scale on‑prem and GPU-intensive infrastructure supporting national security missions.

You will deploy AI clusters, manage Kubernetes across data centers, and mentor engineers while collaborating with AI teams to deliver reliable, scalable software. You must clear Top Secret/SOI or DOE level Q, travel as needed, and align with SpaceX ITAR requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline with 5+ years of Linux experience; or 7+ years in software/DevOps/SRE.
• 5+ years Kubernetes experience.
• 5+ years Linux OS management experience.
• Terraform, Ansible, or similar infra tools experience.
• Containerization tech experience (OCI containers, Kubernetes).
• Scripting in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Python, C++, or Go development experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage GPU/CPU infra deployments to Top Secret data centers.
• Provide GPU-as-a-service support on bare metal and virtualized platforms.
• Design and productize AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on‑prem Kubernetes/AI clusters and OSes.
• Deploy and manage core infra: databases, monitoring, distributed storage.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to deliver scalable, operable products.
• Oversee lifecycle from design to deployment and refinement.
• Maintain monitoring and alerting for high availability.
• Identify improvement areas and create innovative solutions for reliability.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Lead the team to technical excellence as a senior engineer.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Python

Go

C++

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to design, operate, and scale on‑prem and GPU-intensive infrastructure supporting national security missions.

You will deploy AI clusters, manage Kubernetes across data centers, and mentor engineers while collaborating with AI teams to deliver reliable, scalable software. You must clear Top Secret/SOI or DOE level Q, travel as needed, and align with SpaceX ITAR requirements.