AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure, Special Programs
About the role
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with container image management.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform) and understanding of state management tradeoffs.
- Understanding of Linux systems.
- Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling where all dependencies must be pre-staged.
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking.
- Experience with PXE boot, cloud-init, squashfs, or other bare metal provisioning technologies.
- Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- 20% travel may be required to government sites.
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.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with container image management.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform) and understanding of state management tradeoffs.
- Understanding of Linux systems.
- Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling where all dependencies must be pre-staged.
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking.
- Experience with PXE boot, cloud-init, squashfs, or other bare metal provisioning technologies.
- Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- 20% travel may be required to government sites.
Skills
- Go Lang and/or Python.
- Kubernetes or similar tooling.
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Container image management.
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform).
- Linux systems.
- GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking.
- Bare metal provisioning technologies.
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.
- Variety of other discounts and perks.
- 3 weeks of paid vacation.
- 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Paid sick leave.
Pay
AI Engineer: $125,000.00 - $220,000.00/per year
ITAR REQUIREMENTS
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Equal Opportunity Employer
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Contact Information
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