Senior AI Platform Infra Engineer: Deployment & CI/CD

SpaceX; Washington; On-site; USD 220,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

SpaceX in the United States is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, Special Programs to design and build tooling for classified environments, working with cleared engineers at classified sites.

The role emphasizes deterministic, well-tested infrastructure with CI/CD and cross-profile deployment capabilities, alongside a focus on monitoring migration and secure, scalable platforms.

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

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Pulumi

Terraform

Helm

Job description

SpaceX in the United States is seeking a Sr. AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, Special Programs to design and build tooling for classified environments, working with cleared engineers at classified sites.

The role emphasizes deterministic, well-tested infrastructure with CI/CD and cross-profile deployment capabilities, alongside a focus on monitoring migration and secure, scalable platforms.