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# Data Infrastructure Operations Manager II (Starlink)

- **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data Infrastructure, Data Visualization
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0b6d662c0eeb6657

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Vendor performance monitoring?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 7+ years of experience and a bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience working in one or more of the following fields:

 + Hardware or product management
 + Engineering
 + Procurement
 + Supply chain management
 + Strategy and operations
 + Technology

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

 * Self-starting, able to identify areas for improvement with minimal direction
 * Experience in managing technical or construction projects from beginning to end
 * Ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems
 * Excellent project management, communication, and organizational skills
 * Experience or interest in data analysis, data visualization, and/or financial analysis
 * Demonstrates commitment to SpaceX's goals of reusability, renewability, and sustainability

## Description

The Infrastructure Operations team is responsible for the end-to-end management of suppliers, costs, and delivery of high-quality human-generated data, including annotations, evaluations, and specialized research datasets that power the training, validation, and continuous improvement of our AI models. We're seeking talented, high-ownership individuals to grow and expand our global supplier network while ensuring the consistent, high-quality delivery of critical datasets. Individuals in this role are creative, fast problem-solvers who seek on challenges outside their comfort zone and can iterate and adapt at the rapid pace of the AI industry. As a Data Infrastructure Operations Manager I/II, you will own end-to-end strategy, sourcing, and delivery for a major data taxonomy category (e.g., agentic tool use, coding, etc.) to drive high-signal datasets that improve model performance. You will be responsible for driving to acquisition and delivery targets for this category., * Negotiate creative, flexible, and commercially effective deals with key suppliers and partners.

 * Align sourcing strategy with engineering, quality, and performance requirements across priority areas.
 * Track deal status, approvals, and execution risks while driving suppliers toward timely and reliable delivery.
 * Continuously improve, standardize, and scale sourcing processes, workflows, tools, and planning systems.
 * Build a strong pipeline of exclusive and proprietary enterprise datasets.
 * Provide valuable inputs on upcoming orders based on supplier capacity, quality, and pricing.
 * Maintain rigorous spend discipline, committing budget only to datasets that meaningfully improve model performance.
 * Set target pricing, analyze supplier spend and trends, and develop metrics for quality, delivery, and performance.
 * Manage clear, proactive communication with both internal stakeholders and external partners.


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