AI Engineer, Compute Infrastructure, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance
Hawthorne · Palo Alto - 1530 · Redmond, WA · Washington, DC · USD 135,000-230,000 / year · 1+ years experience · Posted Oct 2, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Location
- Hawthorne · Palo Alto - 1530 · Redmond, WA · Washington, DC
- Salary
- USD 135,000-230,000 / year · Base salary
About the role
- The AI Engineer, Platform Infrastructure will build tooling for cleared engineers at classified sites.
- The role requires creating deterministic, well-tested, and foolproof infrastructure to support operations in environments where remote assistance is unavailable.
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.
- Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
- Build the testing and validation framework.
- Integrate with existing Supercompute team's operators, Helm charts, and CRDs.
- Own the monitoring stack migration.
- Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline.
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.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.
- Must successfully obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- 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).
- Understanding of Linux systems.
- Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling.
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure (NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking).
- Experience with PXE boot, cloud-init, squashfs, or other bare metal provisioning technologies.
Benefits
- Company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards
- Discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
Workplace
- 20% travel may be required to government sites.
- Role is based in Hawthorne, Palo Alto, Redmond, WA, or Washington, DC.
Skills
- Go Lang
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Buildkite
- GitHub Actions
- Pulumi
- Terraform
- Linux
- NVIDIA
- CUDA
- NCCL
- InfiniBand
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- RoCE
- PXE Boot
- Helm
