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

SpaceX· Starshield AI Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$220k - $350kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior AI Engineer focused on Special Programs Supercomputing, building tooling and deploying across public cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments for cleared engineers at classified sites. Requires Top Secret clearance and involves extended hours, travel, and ITAR-compliant work.

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:PythonKubernetes

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
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and potential discretionary bonuses
  • stock options or long-term incentives (subject to eligibility)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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