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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Network Engineer - **Company:** SPACEXAI LLC - **Location:** United States - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $250,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Computer Clusters, Network Congestion, Data Centers, Ethernet, Python (Programming Language), Network Layer, Network Planning and Design, Routing, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Remote Direct Memory Access, Ansible, TCP/IP, Virtual Local Area Networks, Computer Networking Systems, Juniper, Build Management, Terraform, Open Network Automation Platform, Cisco - **Published:** September 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/network-engineer-xai-10068615 ## About the Role SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates., * 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, * 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 ## Description SpacexAI is building and operating large-scale networks that underpin training and inference infrastructure, including high-performance / supercompute fabrics that connect GPU clusters, plus the core, edge, and datacenter networks that keep that infrastructure reachable and reliable. We need 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. You will design and build networks, qualify platforms, ship changes safely, and keep availability and performance high as we scale. Travel to Memphis (and other build sites) may be required for capacity build-outs. You will participate in a team on-call rotation., * 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 ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [The Gashlycrumb Tinies of AI Networking You Must Know (or Languish!)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2067-the-gashlycrumb-tinies-of-ai-networking-you-must-know-or-languish) - [An Applied Introduction to eBPF with Go](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1075-an-applied-introduction-to-ebpf-with-go) - [Your Infrastructure Is Not a Playground: AI Agents for Infra Done Right](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2084-your-infrastructure-is-not-a-playground-ai-agents-for-infra-done-right) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Turning Container security up to 11 with Capabilities](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/718-turning-container-security-up-to-11-with-capabilities) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Graph and AI Trends 2026: Why Is AI Running but Not Yet Delivering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/680-graph-and-ai-trends-2026-why-is-ai-running-but-not-yet-delivering) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [6 Emerging Technologies We’ll Learn About in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/381-6-emerging-technologies-we-ll-learn-about-in-2025) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)