Network Engineer (Battery Storage) - Memphis
xAI· Data Center
Memphis, TNFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Network Engineer on the Battery Storage team supporting SpaceXSI to design, build, operate, and maintain electrical infrastructure for AI training campuses. Based in Memphis, TN with potential travel to other sites.
Responsibilities
- Own the operational technology network the storage fleet runs on: packs, inverters, medium-voltage collection, and the plant controller must talk deterministically, redundantly, and securely.
- Own site network architecture: topology, redundancy, switch selection and configuration, VLAN and subnet design, and IP addressing across the fleet.
- Own the fiber and copper physical plant: single-mode and multimode runs, splice plans, patch panel layout, labeling, OTDR acceptance testing, and pathway coordination.
- Own industrial protocol integration across Modbus TCP, DNP3, and IEC 61850 including GOOSE, plus mapping between pack controllers, PCS, plant controller, and EMS.
- Own precision time distribution using PTP per IEEE 1588 and IRIG-B for sequence-of-events and disturbance analysis.
- Own OT cybersecurity for the storage plant: segmentation per IEC 62443, firewall rules, remote access, patch and firmware management, and applicable NERC CIP evidence.
- Specify and commission industrial switches, media converters, gateways, protocol converters, terminal servers, and time sources; own configuration backup and change management.
- Support commissioning with network validation, latency and packet-loss testing, failover testing, and pack-level communications troubleshooting.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, or 6+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- 3+ years of industrial, utility, or operational technology network engineering.
Skills
Required:Industrial OT networkingIndustrial protocols
Nice to have:Fiber optic terminationOT cybersecurityIndustrial platforms
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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