Base Salary
$125k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale clusters and services.
- Develop automated, full turnkey solutions for silicon simulation workflows.
- Manage infrastructure as code and use observability tools to monitor cluster and infrastructure health.
- Operate continuous integration pipelines, build and release systems, and version control across the environment.
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks through measurement and engineering.
- Collaborate with systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, product engineering, and ASIC implementation teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline, or 2+ years of professional experience in system administration, high-performance computing, or site reliability engineering.
- At least 1 year of development experience with Bash, Python, and/or other programming languages.
- At least 1 year of experience with Linux operating systems.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Knowledge of computer architecture, computer organization, operating systems, and concurrency is preferred.
- Experience with databases and data modeling, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite, is preferred.
- Networking knowledge of TCP/IP is preferred.
- Experience with high-performance computing and workload managers such as Slurm or LSF is preferred.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar automation frameworks is preferred.
- Experience building monitoring and alerting as code with tools such as Grafana and Prometheus is preferred.
- Experience with CI/CD automation at scale, including Jenkins, Bamboo, or build systems, is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools for managing server fleets is preferred.
- Experience building and using REST API clients and servers is preferred.
- Experience automating enterprise or networked storage, including NetApp ONTAP REST API/CLI and NFS, is preferred.
- Experience with ASIC design flows and tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, Ansys, Keysight, or Siemens is preferred.
- Strong interest in performance bottleneck identification and performance improvement is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to learn new tools and frameworks are preferred.
- Interest in or experience with AI/LLM-assisted tooling such as Grok or Claude Code is preferred.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed for critical milestones is required.
- Applicants must meet SpaceX ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Base salary ranges from $125,000 to $175,000 depending on level.
- Eligible employees may receive company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage is provided.
- Access to a 401(k), disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks is provided.
- Employees may accrue three weeks of paid vacation and receive 10 or more paid holidays annually.
- Washington State employees accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law.
- Company shuttles operate Monday through Friday between select Seattle locations and the SpaceX Redmond office.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements.
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About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.