Manager Supercomputer Site Reliability Engineering
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead site reliability engineering for hyperscale GPU infrastructure. You will build and manage reliability sub-teams, set operational standards, oversee incidents and root-cause analysis, improve repair velocity, monitor cluster health, and partner with engineering, data center operations, and vendors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience in large-scale operations with 2+ years leading people leaders of technical teams, or 10+ years of experience in large-scale operations with 5+ years leading people leaders of technical teams
- Willingness to travel frequently to data center locations
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs unassisted
- Ability to stand for long periods and occasionally use ladders
- Willingness to work extended hours or weekends as needed
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior operational authority for the SRE organization
- Lead integrated supercomputer systems engineering reliability initiatives
- Build SRE sub-teams for hardware analysis, software tools, monitoring, and site reliability
- Define on-call responsibilities, incident protocols, leadership structure, and communication practices
- Develop training for monitoring and response teams
- Establish operational interfaces with data center operations, engineering teams, vendors, and service owners
- Own vendor oversight and accountability mechanisms
- Improve mean time to repair
- Define and improve operational procedures and documentation workflows
- Define operational targets, health indicators, alerting standards, and incident severity definitions
- Lead hardware root-cause analysis and remediation teams
- Partner with platform engineering to improve operational reliability
- Lead automation efforts to reduce remediation overhead