Data Center Operations Technician
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 keep servers and network equipment healthy across data centers and points of presence. You will troubleshoot, rack and stack hardware, handle fiber and power cabling, manage inventory and tickets in Jira, document procedures, and handle hardware receipt, decommissioning, and vendor returns.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalency
- 2+ years working with server, storage, compute and network hardware
- 2+ years troubleshooting and repairing servers and networking infrastructure
- 2+ years in inventory management and ordering, receiving and shipping equipment
- Subject to pre-employment drug testing, random drug and alcohol testing, and background checks
- Ability to lift up to 35 lbs unassisted
- Comfortable working at heights up to 50 feet with safety gear
- Available evenings and weekends
Responsibilities
- Report to the job site during initial construction and report back to engineering
- Troubleshoot and monitor servers and network in data centers and points of presence
- Rack and stack data center network equipment
- Maintain warehouse inventory and asset management
- Label and troubleshoot fiber/optic cables
- Cable, install, troubleshoot, and repair power supplies
- Install racks, servers, and switches and hand off to provisioning
- Manage and resolve data center operations tickets via Jira
- Create and maintain documentation and SOPs
- Receive and decommission data center hardware
- Handle vendor returns for hardware
- Manage spare parts inventory
- Define, design, and implement network layouts