Rack Design Engineer for AI Compute Racks & Cooling

Maven Ventures

Southaven (MS)

On-site

USD 80,000 - 120,000

Full time

9 days ago
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Job summary

SpaceXAI is seeking a Rack Design Engineer to own the rack as a product, covering structure, power, cooling, service paths, and the physical integration of servers, switches, optics, and liquid cooling from sketch to production. You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to push performance and yield on state-of-the-art AI compute racks.

You will contribute to the manufacturing line design, tooling, and documentation, and participate in first-site bring-up and ongoing hardware iterations across

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field.
  • 2+ years of professional experience designing electromechanical hardware that was built and shipped.

Responsibilities

  • Own mechanical, structural, and integration design of high-density AI compute racks and associated chassis, frames, busbars, manifolds, and cable/fiber raceways
  • Integrate compute, networking, power distribution, and liquid cooling into a buildable, serviceable, high-yield rack architecture
  • Design for the in-house manufacturing line: DFM/DFA, fixtures, work instructions, incoming inspection, first article, and production ramp
  • Close thermal, structural, and power constraints with cooling, electrical, optical, and network counterparts at the cluster level
  • Drive vendor and in-house parts from concept to qualified production, including sheet metal, extrusions, busbar, manifolds, cable management, and rack accessories
  • Stand on the floor during prototype and production builds: debug fit, leak, cable dress, airflow/liquid balance, and service time; fold issues into the next revision the same day
  • Produce and maintain CAD, BOMs, drawings, and build documentation that a line can run at volume
  • Support cluster deployment of the racks you design, including first-site bring-up and feedback into the next hardware generation
  • Partner with network, optical, electrical, and firmware teams to deploy custom compute for inference and training across SpaceX programs

Skills

Mechanical design
Electromechanical hardware
CAD fluency
Thermal analysis
Rack design
Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

SolidWorks
Creo
NX

Job description

SpaceXAI is seeking a Rack Design Engineer to own the rack as a product, covering structure, power, cooling, service paths, and the physical integration of servers, switches, optics, and liquid cooling from sketch to production. You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to push performance and yield on state-of-the-art AI compute racks.

You will contribute to the manufacturing line design, tooling, and documentation, and participate in first-site bring-up and ongoing hardware iterations across

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