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Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)

SpaceX· Starshield Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Redmond, WA)$125k - $200kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Software Engineer focusing on Starshield's software and GPU infrastructure to design, operate, and scale on-premise compute resources and AI clusters for critical national security missions. Roles span Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and GPU platforms, with emphasis on automation, Kubernetes/AI clusters, and collaboration with AI engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret datacenters
  • Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms
  • Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)
  • Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes\AI clusters, and operating systems
  • Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
  • Closely collaborate with AI engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
  • Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
  • Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 1+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps; OR 3+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps in lieu of a degree
  • 1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems
  • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
  • Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
  • Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
  • Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Skills

Required:LinuxTerraformAnsibleKubernetesPythonShell scripting
Nice to have:C++Go

Benefits

  • long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • 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
  • paid vacation and holidays
  • paid sick time in Washington state
  • company shuttles for commute to Redmond office
  • additional 10% salary differential for active security clearance up to $20,000 annually
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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