SpaceX
Aerospace & DefenseDirect Greenhouse career site

Sr. Network Engineer

Location
Starbase, TX · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
5+ years
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • ITAR eligibility
  • Juniper
  • Cisco
  • Arista
  • Linux networking
  • network automation

Also useful

  • Aruba
  • NVIDIA
  • RDMA
  • AI/ML operations

About the role

The Network Engineering team designs and operates the mission critical networks for our data centers that power our internal operations. These networks are highly redundant, secure, and high-performance architectures that are rapidly scaling to support our internal needs & our fleet of vehicles. You will lead the charge on designing new architectures, innovating on AI-native operations and challenging the status quo on creating world class networks.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, & deploy highly redundant data centers for mission critical operations
  • Lead end to end automation of the network lifecycle: provisioning, configuration management, validation, monitoring
  • Create and maintain AI-driven network operations: Design AI and machine learning tools to monitor network health, detect anomalies and pro-actively detect anomalous hardware behavior
  • Automate rapid provisioning & upgrades of network devices & servers
  • Troubleshoot and resolve networking hardware & software problems
  • Optimize performance across hardware, topologies, protocols and software

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience designing, operating & automating critical networks

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • 5+ years of experience with Juniper, Cisco, Aruba, Arista, NVIDIA hardware
  • 5+ years of experience automating network configurations & network monitoring
  • 5+ years of experience with kernel systems, linux networking, high speed optical modules, RDMA
  • AI native engineer that is an expert at deploying & looping AI agents

Additional Requirements

  • Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary

Itar Requirements

  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

About SpaceX

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Read the original posting

From SpaceX's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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