Senior AI Platform Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

Spacex; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer for Compute Infrastructure in Special Programs. You will develop tooling for clearances, automate deployment across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gap environments, and work with a cleared team at classified sites.

The role emphasizes deterministic, well-tested tooling, CI automation, and integration with existing infrastructure while maintaining security and reliability constraints.

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

Python

CI/CD

Linux

GPU

Air-gapped tooling

Top Secret clearance

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Kubernetes

NVIDIA drivers

CUDA

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/related

Tools

Kubernetes

Pulumi

Terraform

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Container images

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer for Compute Infrastructure in Special Programs. You will develop tooling for clearances, automate deployment across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gap environments, and work with a cleared team at classified sites.

The role emphasizes deterministic, well-tested tooling, CI automation, and integration with existing infrastructure while maintaining security and reliability constraints.