Senior AI Infrastructure Network Engineer

InvestedintheMission; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock-based incentives

Comprehensive health benefits

Generous vacation & holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for AI infrastructure within the Starshield program. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of the Starshield data center network, enabling secure, high-performance AI workloads at scale and supporting national security missions.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive technical excellence, and lead deployments across a global, highly secure environment while collaborating with hardware, software, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering discipline with 5+ years of networking experience or 7+ years without a degree.
• Hands-on deployment of networking hardware (routers, switches, firewalls).
• Experience with datacenter networks and high-performance interconnects.

Responsibilities

• Manage network infrastructure for Top Secret data centers.
• Design and validate high-speed copper and optical interconnects for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
• Collaborate with ML teams to map workload patterns to interconnect topology.

Skills

Team leadership

Networking experience

Layer-1 experience

Problem solving

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

ZTP provisioning tools

Network hardware deployment

IT security integration

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for AI infrastructure within the Starshield program. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of the Starshield data center network, enabling secure, high-performance AI workloads at scale and supporting national security missions.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive technical excellence, and lead deployments across a global, highly secure environment while collaborating with hardware, software, and security teams.