Senior Data Center Supplier Engineer – Systems & Reliability

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a talented data center engineer to develop, drive, and maintain suppliers from concept to production, enabling high-performance facilities and data centers. Based in Palo Alto, you will collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams and suppliers to implement cross-functional data center strategies that maximize uptime and reliability across rack-level hardware.

This role requires technical leadership, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to reliability, thermal,

Responsibilities

• Analyze data center hardware and processes from a first principles, physics-based approach with focus on data center hardware domain.
• Ability to own complex rack-level solutions, system-level design decisions across mechanical, electrical, power, thermal, networking, and software integration domains.
• Lead the integration of Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) principles into data center strategy and architecture, ensuring resilient, high-performing infrastructure that consistently delivers maximum uptime and operational continuity.
• Experience in rack-level solution design and integration, switch/server experience, including compute (CPU-GPU), storage, or networking hardware integration.
• Provide deep technical guidance on rack infrastructure including power distribution units (PDUs), cooling systems, airflow design, and high-density compute integration.
• Apply reliability methods and thermal engineering, mechanical engineering and electronics to design accelerated test plans for design validation, burn-in testing, environmental stress screening (ESS), and ongoing reliability testing (ORT).
• Facilitate and lead design FMEA sessions to assess hardware risks, determine validation test plans and drive reliable design choices.
• Develop hardware qualification criteria, collaborate on functional and reliability requirements, and drive system-level optimization for high-volume installation.

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a talented data center engineer to develop, drive, and maintain suppliers from concept to production, enabling high-performance facilities and data centers. Based in Palo Alto, you will collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams and suppliers to implement cross-functional data center strategies that maximize uptime and reliability across rack-level hardware.

This role requires technical leadership, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to reliability, thermal,