OT Systems Engineer (Supercomputer Infrastructure)

Location: Onsite in the Memphis, Tennessee / Southaven, Mississippi area, with travel of up to 20% between campuses and other sites.

Company

xAI develops AI systems designed to understand the universe and support humanity's pursuit of knowledge.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and support OT environments for cooling plants, electrical distribution, liquid-cooling loops, on-site generation, battery energy storage, and data halls.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot BMS, EPMS, SCADA, PLC, and internally developed HMI platforms.
• Integrate virtualization, VDI, edge compute, network redundancy, automation, and infrastructure-as-code technologies into secure and scalable ICS environments.
• Build development, test, and staging environments for controlled changes to live critical systems.
• Support cluster bring-up, capacity expansions, commissioning, production training, upgrades, and incident response in 24/7 operations.
• Develop OT standards, architectures, documentation, simulation environments, and cybersecurity practices in collaboration with IT, security, controls, facilities, construction, power teams, vendors, and integrators.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in OT systems engineering or industrial control systems administration.
• Hands-on experience with multiple industry-standard controls software platforms and tools.
• Experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting OT environments in high-reliability settings.
• Working knowledge of industrial protocols including BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, Ethernet/IP, and DNP3.
• Proficiency in Bash, PowerShell, or Python and automation or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Puppet, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Ability to work onsite, participate in after-hours on-call rotations, work extended hours or weekends as needed, work at heights and in plant/data hall environments, lift 30 lbs, and drive with a valid license.

Nice to have

• Experience with OT environments in data centers, power generation, semiconductor, energy, or similar industries.
• Experience with large cooling plants, medium-voltage distribution, and mission-critical facilities.
• Experience with hyperconverged, rugged industrial edge, and distributed compute architectures.
• Knowledge of Active Directory, identity environments, Windows and Linux administration, databases, storage, backups, and industrial network segmentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, highly motivated organization focused on engineering excellence and curiosity.
• Flat structure with hands-on contribution expected from all employees.
• Work involves high-stakes, 24/7 supercomputer campus operations.
• After-hours on-call rotation and occasional evening or weekend maintenance are required.