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

SpaceX· Starshield AI Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$220k - $350kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior AI Engineer focused on building tooling for SpaceX's Special Programs Supercomputing, with Top Secret clearance. Responsible for deploying and maintaining platforms, generating deployment tooling, CI, testing, and monitoring across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped 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.
  • 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

  • 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 per company policy
  • stock options or long-term incentives through equity or purchase plan
  • employee discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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