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AI Engineer, Supercomputing, Special Programs - Top Secret Clearance

Hawthorne, CAFull-time$135k2026-10-06 → 2026-11-10
Citizens or permanent residents onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Build deterministic, well-tested tooling and deployment pipelines for classified supercomputing environments where engineers cannot seek external help.

Role type

Senior IC DevOps/Platform Engineer (Supercomputing)

Builds

Deployment generators, bundle pipelines, CI matrices, and monitoring stacks for air-gapped and public cloud targets.

Domain

Defense/Space supercomputing infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go, Python, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi/Terraform), Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, container image management, GPU infrastructure (CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand), bare metal provisioning (PXE, cloud-init, squashfs)

Preferred skills

Air-gapped deployment tooling, state management tradeoffs, GPU driver management

Responsibilities

Design and build the deployment generator, create and maintain platform documentation, build the bundle pipeline, implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud and classified air-gap targets, build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix, build the testing and validation framework, integrate with existing operators and Helm charts without modifying production infrastructure, own the monitoring stack migration, own the bare metal provisioning pipeline

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC