Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)
SpaceX · Hawthorne, CA
About this role
**SpaceX — Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)** SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts—building highly reliable in-space mesh networks and secure systems to guarantee access to space. As a **Network Engineer**, you will drive the operation, build, and deployment of the **Starshield data center network** supporting critical national security missions. You and your teammates will own network design and propose/implement continual improvements to add capabilities and customers. You will also monitor and improve **network security**, **performance**, and **reliability**, and optimize 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 interconnect topology and optical reconfigurability requirements - Contribute to tools for rapid deployments (e.g., **ZTP/custom provisioning tools**) - Improve network performance and reliability using system performance metrics (capacity planning, failure detection, remediation) - Assist in capacity augmentation and network optimization deployments - Lead network integration and troubleshooting efforts - Collaborate with hardware, software, and network engineers to improve 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/engineering discipline **or** 4+ years of professional networking experience deploying enterprise, cloud, and/or web-scale networks - 1+ year of networking experience deploying enterprise network solutions and/or cloud and **GPU networks** (internship/co-op counts) - **Layer-1** experience (e.g., transport, DWDM, optical fiber, circuit troubleshooting, activations) - Hands-on experience deploying networking hardware (routers, modems, switches, firewalls, etc.)
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