Lead Engineer, Data Center - Memphis is open at xAI in Memphis, TN. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $238K. Posted on Aug 18, 2026, and still on xAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Own the electrical architecture from the medium-voltage bus to the GPU rack — topology, redundancy, and standards — for halls scaling with AI compute load Set and defend the redundancy basis; prove split-feed and cross-feed schemes against bus-fault, transformer-loss, and switchgear-loss contingencies Establish the campus electrical design standard: equipment tagging, drawing conventions, approved vendor list…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on xAI’s careers page.
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