Electrical 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 own plant electrical systems for gas-turbine generation and medium-voltage collection and export infrastructure. You will develop protection designs, perform power studies, direct switching activities, coordinate utility work, support commissioning, and improve system reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, or electrical engineering technology
- Ability to perform hands-on work in varied weather, tight quarters, or at heights
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Ability to work safely in hazardous environments while wearing PPE
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. unassisted
- Ability to travel up to 50%
- Valid driver’s license
Responsibilities
- Own plant electrical systems for gas-turbine generation, including generators, excitation, synchronization, auxiliaries, and balance-of-plant electrical systems
- Design 34.5 kV collection and export systems, protection and control systems, e-houses, blackstart capability, and medium-voltage infrastructure
- Serve as switching authority for plant electrical systems
- Develop single-line diagrams, protection and control schematics, relay settings, and interconnection designs
- Perform detailed power-system studies using ETAP, PSS/E, or equivalent tools
- Integrate generation with plant systems, collection and export systems, and data center loads
- Ensure compliance with relevant standards and support permitting and utility coordination
- Support equipment specification, vendor selection, factory testing, commissioning, and energization
- Conduct FMEA, root-cause investigations, and reliability modeling
- Support facility builds, capacity expansions, and power-standard improvements