AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance

SpaceX is hiring an AI Engineer for Special Programs Supercomputing. The role builds deterministic, well-tested deployment tooling and documentation for cleared engineers working at classified sites, including deployment pipelines, validation frameworks, integrations, and monitoring migration.

What you'll do:

• 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
• Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline

What they're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline
• 1+ years of experience in Go Lang and/or Python
• 1+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing and scaling containerized applications
• This position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment
• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with container image management
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform) and understanding of state management tradeoffs
• Understanding of Linux systems
• Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling where all dependencies must be pre-staged
• Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking

Benefits:

• You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
• Potential discretionary bonuses
• The ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Various other discounts and perks
• You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation