# Network Engineer

**Company**: SpaceXAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $250,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

We are seeking a Network Engineer who is strong on fundamentals and comfortable owning production network design, deployment, and operations end to end. This is a hands-on engineering seat , not a NOC technician role and not a network-software (telemetry/ZTP platform) SWE role.

## Responsibilities:

- Design, deploy, and operate production datacenter and campus/core networks at scale

- Own routing and switching configuration standards (BGP and at least one IGP such as OSPF or IS-IS), including change design, peer reviews, and execution

- Qualify new network platforms, optics, and topologies; contribute to architecture and capacity planning

- Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational documentation so issues are caught and fixed quickly

- Troubleshoot Layer 2/Layer 3 incidents end to end , from link flaps and optics through routing and traffic engineering , and drive root cause and lasting fixes

- Automate repetitive network tasks with Python, Ansible, or similar tooling where it reduces toil

- Partner with compute, facilities, and software teams during cluster build-outs and maintenance windows

- Support high-performance / supercompute network environments (Ethernet AI/HPC fabrics, RoCE/RDMA-capable designs) as part of the broader network estate , deep specialist RoCE/NCCL ownership is a plus, not the bar for this seat

## Basic Qualifications:

- Several years designing and/or operating production networks in a datacenter, ISP, cloud, or large enterprise environment

- Solid hands-on experience with BGP and at least one interior routing protocol

- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, EVPN/VXLAN or equivalent datacenter overlays, and optics / high-speed Ethernet

- Experience troubleshooting live production network incidents and participating in on-call

- Strong written and verbal communication; clear change docs and incident notes

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Experience with modern datacenter vendors (e.g. Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Nvidia/Mellanox)

- Familiarity with high-performance or supercompute networking (RoCEv2, congestion control, GPU cluster fabrics) , useful context for our environment, not a hard filter

- Network automation (Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar) used in production

- Experience with EVPN, leaf-spine, and large-scale Ethernet fabrics

- Prior work supporting rapid datacenter or cluster capacity build-outs

## Additional Requirements:

- Willing to work onsite in Palo Alto

## Compensation and Benefits:

$150,000 - $250,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- BGP
- OSPF
- IS-IS
- TCP/IP
- VLANs
- EVPN/VXLAN
- Python
- Ansible

### Nice to have
- Arista
- Cisco
- Juniper
- Nvidia/Mellanox
- RoCEv2
- GPU cluster fabrics
- Terraform
- EVPN
- leaf-spine
- large-scale Ethernet fabrics

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