Rack Design Engineer Data Center
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 mechanical, structural, and integration design for high-density compute racks. You will integrate power, cooling, networking, and servers; create manufacturing documentation; qualify parts; debug prototype and production builds; support deployment; and incorporate feedback into subsequent hardware revisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- 2+ years of professional experience designing electromechanical hardware that was built and shipped
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends
- Willingness to travel to manufacturing and datacenter sites
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs and work around active factory and datacenter hardware
Responsibilities
- Own mechanical, structural, and integration design for high-density AI compute racks
- Integrate compute, networking, power distribution, and liquid cooling
- Design for manufacturing and assembly
- Resolve thermal, structural, and power constraints with engineering counterparts
- Drive vendor and in-house parts from concept through qualified production
- Debug prototype and production builds on the factory floor
- Maintain CAD, BOMs, drawings, and build documentation
- Support cluster deployment and incorporate feedback into future hardware generations