Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)
Overview:
In this role you will design, operate, and scale Starshield's software and GPU infrastructure to support a critical national security mission. You'll build automation for on-premise AI and Kubernetes clusters, manage high-scale GPU deployments, and collaborate with AI engineers to deliver reliable, maintainable products. You'll work across teams to improve service lifecycles and ensure high availability in secure data centers. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape AI infrastructure at scale in a government-context setting. Compensation / Benefitscomprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage 401(k) planstock or long-term incentivesdiscretionary bonuses and stock purchase planpaid vacation and holidaysparental leave
Responsibilities:
- Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret data centers
- Provide GPU-as-a-service support for external customers on bare metal and virtualized platforms
- Design, validate, and productize AI clusters at 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
- Collaborate with AI engineers to build scalable, operable products
- Engage in the full lifecycle of services from design to operation and refinement
- Ensure high availability via monitoring and alerting
- Identify improvement opportunities and implement innovative solutions for reliability
Key requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 1+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience; or 3+ years in lieu of a degree 1+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar infrastructure tools
- Experience with containerization (OCI containers, Kubernetes)
- Scripting experience in Bash, Python, or similar
- Development experience in Python, C++, or GoExcellent communication skills with customers and peers
- Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams
- Ability to identify and articulate improvements and solutions
TerraformAnsibleKubernetes