OT Systems Engineer — Hyperscale AI Facilities

SpaceXAI; Southaven (MS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXAI in the Memphis/Southaven area is seeking an OT Systems Engineer to design, deploy, and sustain industrial control environments for hyperscale AI campuses. This role balances live cooling, power, and facility systems with modernization, leveraging IT technologies to create secure IC environments for dense AI compute.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on OT expertise with BMS/EPMS/SCADA/PLC platforms, scripting, and IaC, and can collaborate across IT, controls, facilities, and security to

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in OT systems engineering or industrial control systems administration.
• Hands-on experience with multiple industry-standard controls software platforms and tools.
• Significant experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting OT environments in high-reliability settings.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and augment next-generation OT environments that support cooling plants, electrical distribution, liquid-cooling loops, on-site generation, BESS, and data hall systems across the Memphis / Southaven campus and future sites.
• Install, configure, maintain, and support industry-standard controls software platforms (BMS, EPMS, SCADA, PLC) as well as internally developed HMIs.
• Integrate established and emergent IT technologies to simplify management, improve security, and create scalable, highly available plant and facility environments.
• Deploy and maintain development, test, and staging environments to enable controlled, systematic change introduction on live critical systems.
• Provide direct support during cluster bring-up, capacity expansions, commissioning, and production training campaigns.
• Perform systems/software upgrades and maintenance between critical operations (including evenings and weekends as needed).
• Proactively monitor services and respond rapidly to incidents to maintain high availability and performance of power, cooling, and environmental control.

Skills

OT systems engineering

Industrial control systems

Real-time OT environments

Scripting Bash/PowerShell/Python

DevOps concepts/tools

Windows/Linux server administration

Network administration & OSI model

Communication skills

Tools

BMS/EPMS/SCADA/PLC

GitOps

Terraform/Ansible/Puppet

Active Directory

Industrial protocols (BACnet, Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, Ethernet/IP, DNP3)

Job description

SpaceXAI in the Memphis/Southaven area is seeking an OT Systems Engineer to design, deploy, and sustain industrial control environments for hyperscale AI campuses. This role balances live cooling, power, and facility systems with modernization, leveraging IT technologies to create secure IC environments for dense AI compute.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on OT expertise with BMS/EPMS/SCADA/PLC platforms, scripting, and IaC, and can collaborate across IT, controls, facilities, and security to