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AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance

SpaceX· Starshield AI Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$135k - $230kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

AI Engineer on SpaceX's Special Programs Supercomputing team responsible for building tooling and integrating with cleared engineers at classified sites. Deliverables include deployment generation, pipelines, profile-driven rendering across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gap targets, CI matrices, testing/validation framework, and monitoring stack migration.

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
Nice to have:CI/CDInfrastructure as CodeLinuxAir-gapped deployment toolingGPU infrastructureBare metal provisioning

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives, including company stock and stock options or long-term cash awards.
  • Potential discretionary bonuses and 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 and various other discounts and perks.
  • Paid vacation (3 weeks) and 10+ paid holidays per year.
  • Paid sick leave per company policy.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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