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Operation & Maintenance Engineer (Power Plant) - Memphis

xAI · Southaven, MS; Memphis, TN · On-site

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About xAI

SpaceXAI builds Grok — frontier AI models for reasoning, voice, image generation, and more. Build with the Grok API. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and a16z.

About the role

As an Operation & Maintenance Engineer, you will keep SpaceXSI’s on-site power plant running. The plant supplies power for high-density AI supercomputing facilities in the Memphis and Southaven area, and it has to stay online 24/7. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, or other engineering discipline
  • 3+ years of operation or maintenance engineering experience in a power plant, generating station, or other high-reliability industrial facility
  • Willingness to be in the plant and to perform hands-on work in all environments (heat, cold, rain), in tight quarters or at heights
  • Remain focused while working in hazardous environments, while wearing appropriate PPE
  • Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted
  • Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying are generally required to perform the functions of this position
More about this role

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

As an Operation & Maintenance Engineer, you will keep SpaceXSI’s on-site power plant running. The plant supplies power for high-density AI supercomputing facilities in the Memphis and Southaven area, and it has to stay online 24/7.

You will work across gas turbines and generators, balance-of-plant, fuel gas and process/fluid systems, water, compressed and instrument air, HVAC and cooling, and...

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