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Operations Engineer (Facilities & Physical Infrastructure)

xAI· Data Center
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Hybrid (Southaven, MS; Memphis, TN)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role within SpaceX's facility operations team focused on designing, building, and activating advanced data center facilities. Responsible for process flow, project planning, metrics/dashboards, data analysis, and automation to improve operations and reduce waste across SpaceX factory sites.

Responsibilities

  • Develop internal visual standards for internal work boards, JIRA queuing, PowerBI dashboards, and department workflow
  • Maintenance program enhancement – increase attention on poor-health hardware and descope unnecessary work
  • Support department continuous improvement projects such as new process rollouts/standardization
  • Integrate with all levels of the business to understand current workflows and identify systematic gaps
  • Define and develop department-level metrics & associated dashboards that quantify the health of our operations and influence change
  • Conduct in-depth analyses through SQL queries and other data analysis methods to dive into problems and identify trends for decision making, following the rules of clear visual indicators and linear flow
  • Create reports, tools, and standardized metrics for operational measurements and improvements
  • Develop automation that mitigates business risk or creates efficiencies within the SpaceX factory
  • Conduct department wide operations audits that streamline the repair and maintenance and construction engineering teams
  • Implement construction management or maintenance tools (software or hardware) to reduce wasted effort by engineers and techs
  • Site services analysis to ensure smart spending on contracts such as custodial, utilities, waste, etc. and roadmap to improve
  • Build communication tools and reports targeted at factory workcell directors to improve communication and facilitate customer service
  • Standardize material library and procurement process to reduce project lead times
  • Drive alignment with maintenance and construction teams at other SpaceX sites across the country to reduce duplicated work

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of experience in operations/process improvement (internship experience qualifies)
  • Experience with Excel, SQL, or Python

Skills

Required:Bachelor’s degree in engineeringOperations/process improvementExcelSQLPython
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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