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AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance

SpaceX· Starshield AI Engineering
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Hybrid (Palo Alto, CA)$135k - $230kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

AI Engineer role focused on building tooling and deployment infrastructure for cleared engineers at classified sites. Responsible for deterministic, well-tested tooling and integration with the SpaceX Supercompute team’s operators, Helm charts, and CRDs, while enabling operation in air-gap and public cloud/on-prem environments.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:GoPythonKubernetes

Benefits

  • 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
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave policy (as per company)
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