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Sr. AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance

SpaceX· Starshield AI Engineering
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Hybrid (Washington, DC)$220k - $350kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior AI Engineer role focused on building tooling and deployment pipelines for classified and air-gapped supercomputing environments. Works with cleared engineers at classified sites to create deterministic, well-tested tooling and CI/CD capabilities for multi-profile deployment across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gap targets.

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.
  • 5+ years of experience in Go Lang and/or Python.
  • 5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing and scaling containerized applications.

Skills

Required:GoPythonKubernetes

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock options or long-term cash awards)
  • Potential discretionary bonuses
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave as per policy
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