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Designs, deploys, operates, and scales GPU/CPU infrastructure supporting Top Secret national security missions. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes and AI clusters, automating on-premise deployments, operating databases, monitoring, distributed storage, and virtualization platforms, and improving service reliability and performance. Collaborates with AI engineers and customers to deliver scalable infrastructure products. The role requires Linux, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, scripting, software development, and the ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

Designs, deploys, operates, and scales GPU/CPU infrastructure supporting Starshield national security missions. Responsibilities include managing Top Secret data center environments, GPU-as-a-service platforms, large AI clusters, Kubernetes, operating systems, databases, monitoring, distributed storage, and automation. The role improves service reliability, mentors engineers, collaborates with AI teams, and leads technical excellence across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Develop highly reliable software and applications used across SpaceX. Responsibilities include designing systems, building prototypes, improving operational efficiency, owning software product development, solving user problems, and contributing to architecture, design, and code reviews. The role involves full-stack development, performance optimization, testing, deployment, monitoring, and distributed data processing using modern cloud-native technologies.

Develop and own reliable full-stack software applications used across SpaceX, including manufacturing, launch, flight, satellite-network, and customer-facing systems. Responsibilities include designing architectures, building prototypes, improving performance, testing, deploying, monitoring, and collaborating on technical decisions. The role requires onsite work and may involve extended hours or weekends based on launch schedules.

Develop and execute sourcing strategies for electronics categories supporting Falcon 9. Manage domestic and international suppliers, RFIs/RFPs/RFQs, contracts, purchase orders, cost-reduction initiatives, supplier performance, capacity, quality, delivery, and supply risk. Partner with engineering on manufacturability and avionics hardware sourcing, support prototype through production ramps, evaluate supplier facilities and financial health, and align supplier commitments with build plans.

Leads SpaceX’s government contracts legal function, managing a team and overseeing complex federal prime contracts and subcontracts. Responsibilities include proposal development, negotiations, contract performance, modifications, disputes, audits, compliance, risk assessments, regulatory monitoring, and advising leadership. The role manages relationships with government customers, contracting officers, auditors, and internal stakeholders, with a focus on FAR, DFARS, NASA regulations, classified contracts, and security-clearance requirements.

Lead hardware reliability for avionics components and production assemblies from design through flight. Partner with design, manufacturing, and test teams to track yields, investigate failures, perform electrical root-cause analysis, validate test systems, improve inspection and rework processes, and reduce production and flight risks. The role requires hands-on work across offices, factories, and labs, supporting Lean continuous improvement and product quality objectives.

Supports reliability of avionics hardware from design through production and flight. Investigates failures, conducts electrical root-cause analysis, tracks yields and escapes, validates test and inspection processes, performs measurement studies, and drives Lean manufacturing improvements. The role collaborates with design, manufacturing, test, quality, and shop-floor teams to reduce risk, improve manufacturability, address nonconformances, and ensure production assemblies meet reliability and quality objectives.

Manage demand and supply plans for SpaceX’s Starship design group, maintain bills of materials and MRP data, coordinate engineering and production changes, monitor budgets and forecasts, analyze supply chain metrics, and support production goals. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, mentoring junior staff, onsite work in Hawthorne, California, and up to 30% travel.

Develop sourcing strategies for software and services categories, reduce costs and risk, negotiate global contracts, manage suppliers, and oversee contract performance. Conduct market research, benchmarking, quantitative analysis, savings tracking, invoice auditing, and process improvement. Partner with stakeholders, Legal, and suppliers to implement category strategies, manage KPIs, and drive procurement compliance. The role is full-time onsite in Hawthorne, California, with up to 20% travel.