Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)

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.

NETWORK ENGINEER, AI INFRASTRUCTURE (STARSHIELD)

Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads. The Starshield team is building highly reliable in-space mesh networks, designing secure systems to guarantee access to space, designing next-gen communication and sensing software, and more.

As a Network Engineer you will drive the operation, build and deployment of the Starshield data center network, which supports critical national security missions. You and your teammates will own the network design and be responsible for proposing and implementing continual improvements to add more capabilities and customers. You will also be responsible for monitoring and improving network security, improving network performance and reliability, and optimizing network deployments.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Manage network infrastructure and deployments to Top Secret data centers

- Design, validate, and productize high-speed copper and optical connectivity solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)

- Collaborate with ML training teams to translate workload communication patterns into concrete interconnect topology and optical reconfigurability requirements.

- Contribute to various tools for rapid deployments (ZTP/custom provisioning tools)

- Improve network performance and reliability based upon system performance metrics, including capacity planning, failure detection and remediation

- Assist in capacity augmentation and network optimization deployments

- Lead network integration and troubleshooting efforts

- Collaborate with hardware, software, and network engineers to improve the Starshield network design

- Assist in updating system configuration and firmware

- Build automation for network devices, operational and deployment tools

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering discipline; OR 4+ years of professional networking experience deploying enterprise network solutions and/or cloud and web-scale networks in lieu of a degree

- 1+ year of networking experience deploying enterprise network solutions and/or cloud and GPU networks (internship/co-op experience qualifies)

- Layer-1 experience (e.g., transport, DWDM, optical fiber, circuit troubleshooting, activations, etc.)

- Hands on experience with the deployment of networking hardware (routers, modems, switch, firewalls, etc..)