Lead Data Center Technician

SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.

Austin, United States
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.

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About the Role

You will maintain the health of server and network infrastructure across data centers and global points of presence. You will troubleshoot hardware, manage inventory and operations tickets, install and repair equipment, document procedures, and design network solutions.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalency certificate
  • 5+ years of experience with server, storage, compute, and network hardware
  • 5+ years of experience troubleshooting and repairing servers and networking infrastructure
  • 5+ years of inventory management and ordering, receiving, and shipping server and network equipment
  • Ability to lift up to 35 lbs unassisted
  • Ability to work at heights up to 50 feet with safety gear
  • Availability to work evenings and weekends as operational needs require
  • Pre-employment drug testing and random drug and alcohol testing
  • Pre-employment and annual post-employment background checks

Responsibilities

  • Report to construction job sites and update engineering teams
  • Troubleshoot and monitor servers and networks
  • Rack and stack data center network equipment
  • Maintain warehouse inventory and asset records
  • Label and troubleshoot fiber and optical cables
  • Install, troubleshoot, and repair power cabling
  • Install racks, servers, and switches and hand off hardware for provisioning
  • Manage and resolve data center operations tickets in Jira
  • Create and maintain task documentation and standard operating procedures
  • Receive and decommission data center hardware
  • Coordinate vendor returns
  • Manage spare-parts inventory
  • Define and implement data center network layouts and solutions