# 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 is seeking a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale networks that support training and inference infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong fundamentals, own production network design, deployment, and operations end-to-end, and be comfortable with hands-on engineering.

## Responsibilities:

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

- Own routing and switching configuration standards, 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

- Troubleshoot Layer 2/Layer 3 incidents end-to-end

- Automate repetitive network tasks with Python, Ansible, or similar tooling

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

- Support high-performance/supercompute network environments

## 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, and optics/high-speed Ethernet

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

- Strong written and verbal communication

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

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

- Familiarity with high-performance or supercompute networking

- 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

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Arista
- Cisco
- Juniper
- Nvidia/Mellanox
- Terraform
- EVPN
- leaf-spine

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