Senior Network Engineer - AI Infra for Secure Data Centers

InvestedintheMission; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Health, vision and dental insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to lead the network design and deployment of the Starshield data center network that supports critical national security missions. You will own the topology, design high-speed interconnects, and champion secure, scalable networks for AI workloads.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with hardware, software and ML teams, and drive automation and reliability improvements in a fast-paced, mission-focused

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional networking experience.
• 5+ years of networking experience deploying enterprise network solutions and/or cloud and GPU networks.
• Layer-1 experience including transport, DWDM, optical fiber, activations.
• Hands-on deployment of networking hardware (routers, switches, firewalls).

Responsibilities

• Manage network infrastructure and deployments to Top Secret data centers.
• Design, validate, and productize high-speed copper and optical connectivity solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
• Collaborate with ML training teams to translate workload patterns into topology and optical reconfigurability requirements.
• Contribute to tools for rapid deployments (ZTP/custom provisioning).
• Improve network performance and reliability based on metrics and capacity planning.
• Assist in capacity augmentation and network optimization deployments.
• Lead network integration and troubleshooting efforts.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and network engineers to improve Starshield design.
• Assist in updating system configuration and firmware.
• Build automation for network devices and deployment tools.
• Mentor and train junior network engineers.
• As a senior engineer you must lead the team to technical excellence.

Skills

Networking experience

Layer-1 experience

Hardware deployment

Security concepts

Independence & teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for AI Infrastructure (Starshield) to lead the network design and deployment of the Starshield data center network that supports critical national security missions. You will own the topology, design high-speed interconnects, and champion secure, scalable networks for AI workloads.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with hardware, software and ML teams, and drive automation and reliability improvements in a fast-paced, mission-focused