Controls Engineer Power Generation
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 maintain balance-of-plant PLC, HMI, and SCADA systems. You will develop control documentation, integrate OEM and third-party systems, test and troubleshoot controls, support operations, manage configurations, and coordinate controls work through construction and turnover.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, controls engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline
- 3+ years of PLC, HMI, or SCADA engineering experience on industrial or power-generation systems
- Work on-site in Memphis, Tennessee
- Be willing to perform hands-on work during outages and commissioning
- Work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Travel to other sites as needed
Responsibilities
- Design, program, and commission balance-of-plant PLC and HMI systems
- Design and maintain plant SCADA architecture, graphics, alarms, historian, and situational awareness
- Develop control philosophies, narratives, I/O lists, network drawings, cause-and-effect diagrams, and standards
- Specify controls hardware and data exchanges with generation controllers and plant systems
- Program, test, and troubleshoot PLC logic and HMI applications
- Integrate OEM and third-party systems using industrial protocols
- Perform I/O checkout, loop checks, functional testing, HMI validation, alarm rationalization, and start-up support
- Troubleshoot operations issues and implement control changes under MOPs and MOC
- Maintain configuration management and network documentation
- Coordinate controls integration with engineering disciplines and operations
- Apply industrial control and electrical-work standards