Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer - GPU Clusters & On-Prem

Spacex; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Discretionary bonuses

Health insurance (medical, vision &amp

Dental coverage

Paid vacation

Holidays

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Disability insurance

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer focused on AI infrastructure for Starshield. This role designs, operates, and scales GPU-enabled on-premises infrastructure and Kubernetes-based AI clusters to support national security missions.

You will automate deployments, build scalable software products, and collaborate with AI engineers across the organization on high-availability systems. You will mentor junior engineers and help lead the team toward technical excellence, with a strong emphasis

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems; OR 7+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or site reliability engineering in lieu of a degree
• 5+ year of experience with Kubernetes
• 5+ year of experience managing Linux operating systems
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
• Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Responsibilities

• Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms
• Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes/AI clusters, and operating systems
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
• Closely collaborate with AI engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability
• Mentor and train junior engineers
• As a senior engineer you must lead the team to technical excellence – your decisions guide the team

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Python

Go

C++

Bash

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OCI containers

Docker

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer focused on AI infrastructure for Starshield. This role designs, operates, and scales GPU-enabled on-premises infrastructure and Kubernetes-based AI clusters to support national security missions.

You will automate deployments, build scalable software products, and collaborate with AI engineers across the organization on high-availability systems. You will mentor junior engineers and help lead the team toward technical excellence, with a strong emphasis