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Lead Engineer, Transmission & Distribution - Memphis

xAI· Data Center
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Memphis, TNfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead Engineer for Transmission & Distribution within SpaceXSI’s High Power Engineering team, responsible for designing, building, operating, and maintaining electrical infrastructure for AI training campuses from generation terminals down to medium-voltage bus, with on-site leadership and potential travel to other sites. Based in Memphis, TN.

Responsibilities

  • Own everything from generation terminals and the point of interconnection down to the medium-voltage bus: high-voltage switchyards, collector transmission, main power transformers, and the utility relationship that determines whether the campus energizes on schedule.
  • Own high-voltage switchyard architecture: bus configuration, GIS versus AIS tradeoffs, bus sectionalizing, and fault-current management.
  • Lead the interconnection process with the local distributor and balancing authority, including application, system impact and facilities studies, protection philosophy alignment, telemetry and metering, and technical exhibits to the service agreement.
  • Own campus protection philosophy and the settings management database served to Data Center and Battery Storage — one owner, not three models.
  • Own the campus power systems studies function: the single model of record for load flow, short circuit, coordination, arc flash, and stability.
  • Own the generation electrical interface: excitation and governor behavior, synchronizing, generator protection, black start, and station service.
  • Own regulatory and compliance scope as assigned: service agreements, applicable NERC/SERC standards, air-permitting coordination, AHJ relationships, and compliance evidence.
  • Own the campus electrical safety program: NFPA 70E, arc-flash study currency and labeling, energized work permitting, qualified-worker training, and switching authorization.
  • Direct Design, Ops/Build, Protection & Controls, and Power System Engineer seats on the T&D team as those seats fill.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline.
  • 10+ years in transmission, substation, or generation interconnection engineering, with a focus on high-power, high-voltage systems.
  • Experience carrying a project through utility or ISO interconnection to energization.

Skills

Required:Electrical engineering expertise in high-power, high-voltage systemsInterconnection and utility/ISO coordinationProtection and control
Nice to have:Project leadership for multidisciplinary teams
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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