xAI
Lead Engineer, Data Center - Memphis
Memphis, TN · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of electrical power design experience; preferred: 5+ years in mission-critical, hyperscale, or heavy industrial facilities.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline.
About the job
Leads the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of electrical infrastructure powering AI training data-center campuses.
What you'll do
- Own medium-voltage-to-GPU-rack electrical architecture, redundancy, and campus design standards.
- Coordinate power requirements with compute, mechanical, cooling, transmission, and battery-storage teams; lead design reviews and approve vendor drawings and testing procedures.
- Direct Data Center engineering teams and ensure compliance with applicable electrical and safety standards.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline.
- 10+ years of electrical power design experience focused on high-power, high-voltage, or mission-critical systems.
- Experience owning medium-voltage distribution architecture at 10 kV to 35 kV class.
- Willingness to work on-site in Memphis, travel up to 25%, provide 24/7 emergency on-call support, and meet the stated physical and work-environment requirements.
Nice to have
- Professional Engineering license or intention to actively seek a PE license; 5+ years in mission-critical, hyperscale, or heavy industrial facilities.
- Experience with high-density AI compute and liquid-cooled deployments, repeatable multi-hall designs, power systems analysis tools, or building and leading an engineering team.
Tools
ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, PowerWorld, Matlab, PSCAD, PSEE, Simulink
AI focus
Designs and scales data-center electrical systems to support AI training compute loads.
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