Automation & Controls Engineer, Data Center Facilities
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 design, program, commission, and own the controls for the data center plant. You will write PLC code, build operator interfaces, integrate controllers into BMS, EPMS, and historian, implement cooling control strategies, and own systems after go-live including tuning and alarm rationalization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, controls, mechatronics, or related discipline
- 1+ years of experience in industrial controls, building or plant automation, data center facilities, or related programming
- Ability to work long hours, nights, and weekends when required
- Willingness to work on site in the data center
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and manage facility automation projects from sequence of operations through commissioning and handoff
- Architect, write, and debug PLC and controller code for chillers, pumps, cooling towers, CDUs, and air handlers
- Implement lead/lag, staging, rotation, free-cooling, and liquid-cooling control strategies
- Implement fail-safe interlocks, emergency power off and transfer logic, and alarm philosophy compliant with NEC, NFPA 70E, NFPA 75
- Build HMI and control-room graphics for operators
- Integrate equipment controllers into the site BMS, EPMS, and historian
- Design control panels and electrical interfaces compliant with NEC, NFPA, and UL 508A
- Own systems after go-live including alarm rationalization, loop tuning, and outage support
- Build schedules and punch lists and drive vendors and contractors to meet them