Sr. AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, Special Programs

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
SpaceX

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the aim of revolutionizing space technology and enabling human life on other planets.

Aerospace & Defense
10K-50K
Founded 2002

Description

  • 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.
  • Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
  • Build the testing and validation framework.
  • Integrate with the Supercompute team's operators, Helm charts, and CRDs without modifying production infrastructure.
  • Own the monitoring stack migration.
  • Support deployment workflows used by cleared engineers at classified sites.
  • Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or another engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in Go and/or Python.
  • 5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing, and scaling containerized applications.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
  • Familiarity with container image management.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Pulumi or Terraform, including state management tradeoffs.
  • Understanding of Linux systems.
  • Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling where dependencies must be pre-staged.
  • Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, and InfiniBand/RoCE networking.
  • Experience with PXE boot, cloud-init, squashfs, or other bare metal provisioning technologies.
  • Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
  • Approximately 20% travel may be required to government sites.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or otherwise eligible for required U.S. export authorizations.

Benefits

  • $220,000 to $350,000 annual base salary range for the Member of Technical Staff level.
  • Eligible for long-term incentives, including company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards.
  • Potential discretionary bonuses and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchases.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave.

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