Lead Engineer, Battery Storage - Memphis
xAI· Data Center
Memphis, TNFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Lead Engineer responsible for designing, building, operating, and maintaining electrical infrastructure for AI training campuses with a focus on large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) and grid-forming operations at the Memphis site.
Responsibilities
- Own the storage fleet as a power plant: architecture, sizing, controls, safety case, and grid-forming behavior to handle compute step loads and contingencies.
- Own BESS architecture: pack-to-MV-transformer grouping, string composition, medium-voltage collection topology, string-level protection, and physical block layout per NFPA 855.
- Own sizing: translate compute duty cycles into power and energy requirements.
- Own inverter control strategy: grid-forming vs grid-following, droop and virtual inertia, fault-current contribution, ride-through, and coordination with generation governors and excitation.
- Own the plant controller and EMS functional specification: dispatch, state-of-charge management, peak shaving, spinning-reserve emulation, islanding, and black-start participation.
- Own the fire and life-safety case: UL 9540 and 9540A basis, thermal runaway propagation, deflagration venting, water supply, emergency response plan, and AHJ engagement.
- Own the OEM relationship: technical requirements, factory testing, performance guarantees, and degradation/augmentation planning.
- Direct Design, Commissioning, Ops/Build, Network, Civil, and Program Manager seats on Battery Storage as those seats fill.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline.
- 8+ years in power systems engineering.
- 4+ years directly on utility-scale or large commercial and industrial battery energy storage.
Skills
Required:Power systems engineeringBESS design and integrationInverter control strategies
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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