Senior Network Engineer — AI-Native, Mission-Critical Networking

SpaceX; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Network Engineer to architect and operate mission-critical networks powering our data centers and vehicle fleet.

You will lead design of highly redundant, secure networks and drive automation across the lifecycle. You will design AI-native monitoring, deploy fast provisioning, and troubleshoot hardware and software issues at scale, ensuring peak performance across topologies and protocols.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, operating and automating critical networks.
• Experience with AI-driven network operations is a plus.
• Strong understanding of Linux networking and high-speed optical modules.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deploy highly redundant data centers for mission critical operations.
• Lead end-to-end automation of the network lifecycle: provisioning, configuration management, validation, monitoring.
• Create and maintain AI-driven network operations monitoring and anomaly detection.
• Automate rapid provisioning and upgrades of network devices and servers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve networking hardware and software problems.
• Optimize performance across hardware, topologies, protocols and software.

Skills

Network design

Automation

AI monitoring

Linux networking

Data center

Tools

Juniper

Cisco

Aruba

Arista

NVIDIA hardware

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Network Engineer to architect and operate mission-critical networks powering our data centers and vehicle fleet.

You will lead design of highly redundant, secure networks and drive automation across the lifecycle. You will design AI-native monitoring, deploy fast provisioning, and troubleshoot hardware and software issues at scale, ensuring peak performance across topologies and protocols.