Battery Storage Network Engineer – On Site Memphis

SpaceXAI; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXAI is seeking a Network Engineer to join the Battery Storage team in Memphis, TN. You will design, build, operate, and maintain the OT network for AI training campuses, ensuring deterministic, secure communications across packs, inverters, and the plant controller.

You will own site topology, fiber/copper plant, industrial protocol integration, time distribution, and OT cybersecurity, collaborating with a small on-site team and traveling up to 25% for testing and site support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/computer engineering or related field, or 6+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years in industrial, utility, or OT network engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the OT network for the storage fleet ensuring deterministic, redundant, and secure communication.
• Design site network topology, redundancy, switch config, VLAN/subnet design, and IP addressing.
• Own fiber/copper plant: runs, splice plans, patch panels, labeling, OTDR tests, and pathway coordination.
• Own industrial protocol integration across Modbus TCP, DNP3, and IEC 61850 including GOOSE, plus mapping between controllers and EMS.
• Own precision time distribution using PTP (IEEE 1588) and IRIG-B for sequence-of-events analysis.
• Own OT cybersecurity for the storage plant: IEC 62443 segmentation, firewall rules, remote access, patch management, and NERC CIP evidence.
• Specify and commission industrial switches, media converters, gateways, protocol converters, terminal servers, and time sources; manage backups and changes.
• Support commissioning with network validation, latency and packet-loss testing, failover testing, and troubleshooting communications at pack level.

Skills

Industrial networking

OT network engineering

Modbus TCP

DNP3

IEC 61850

IEEE 1588/PTP

IEC 62443/NERC CIP

Fiber optics

Education

Bachelor's degree or 6+ years experience

Tools

Cisco platform

Hirschmann

Moxa

RuggedCom

Job description

SpaceXAI is seeking a Network Engineer to join the Battery Storage team in Memphis, TN. You will design, build, operate, and maintain the OT network for AI training campuses, ensuring deterministic, secure communications across packs, inverters, and the plant controller.

You will own site topology, fiber/copper plant, industrial protocol integration, time distribution, and OT cybersecurity, collaborating with a small on-site team and traveling up to 25% for testing and site support.