Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer — GPU & Kubernetes

Engg; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

401(k) retirement plan

Comprehensive health/vision/dental

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to design, operate, and scale on-premise GPU/CPU infrastructure for a national security-focused satellite constellation. You will automate deployments, build scalable AI clusters, and collaborate with AI engineers to deliver reliable software products.

You will mentor junior engineers and guide the team toward technical excellence while working in a high-security environment with potential travel and extended hours as

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering with 5+ years of Linux experience or 7+ years in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes
• 5+ years of experience managing Linux operating systems
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
• Experience with containerization technologies (OCI containers, Kubernetes)
• Experience scripting in Bash or Python
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Responsibilities

• Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret data centers.
• Provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms.
• Design, validate, and productize AI cluster solutions at 100k+ GPU scale.
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes/AI clusters and OSes.
• Deploy and manage databases, monitoring, and distributed storage systems.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to create scalable, operable products.
• Oversee full lifecycle of services from inception to operation and refinement.
• Ensure high availability through monitoring and alerting systems.
• Identify improvement opportunities and implement innovative solutions.
• Mentor and train junior engineers.
• Lead the team to technical excellence as a senior engineer

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Bazel

Makefiles

NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to design, operate, and scale on-premise GPU/CPU infrastructure for a national security-focused satellite constellation. You will automate deployments, build scalable AI clusters, and collaborate with AI engineers to deliver reliable software products.

You will mentor junior engineers and guide the team toward technical excellence while working in a high-security environment with potential travel and extended hours as