# Fire Protection Engineer

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Memphis, TN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

We are seeking an exceptional Fire Protection Engineer to design, implement, and optimize advanced fire protection and life safety systems for our high-density AI supercomputing facilities and on-site power generation infrastructure.

You will own fire protection strategy from conceptual design through construction, commissioning, and ongoing operations. This is a full-time, onsite role based in the Memphis region, working closely with mechanical, electrical, thermal, gas pipeline, and construction teams.

Responsibilities:

- Design and engineer comprehensive fire protection systems for data centers and power plants, including clean agent suppression, pre-action sprinkler systems, water mist, fire detection/alarm, smoke control, and gas detection.

- Perform fire hazard analyses, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) fire modeling, and risk assessments for high-heat-flux GPU clusters, battery storage, and natural gas turbine installations.

- Develop fire protection drawings, P&IDs, specifications, sequences of operations, and performance-based design approaches.

- Integrate fire protection systems with HVAC, liquid cooling, electrical infrastructure, and gas pipeline safety systems to ensure coordinated performance.

- Ensure full compliance with NFPA (70, 72, 75, 76, 855, 2001), IBC, IFC, FM Global, and local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) requirements.

- Support permitting, authority approvals, and third-party reviews; participate in commissioning, integrated system testing, and handover to operations.

- Conduct failure mode analysis, root cause investigations, and continuous improvement of fire protection standards for current and future facilities.

- Provide technical guidance during construction and act as a subject matter expert during any fire protection-related incidents or drills.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.

- 1+ years of experience in fire protection system design and engineering, with direct experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, or power generation plants.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Experience designing fire protection for hyperscale AI/HPC data centers or large natural gas-fired power generation facilities.

- Hands-on experience with clean agent systems (Novec 1230, FM-200), very early warning smoke detection (VESDA), and water mist systems.

- Familiarity with performance-based design approaches and alternative means and methods approvals.

- Experience working with AHJs in Tennessee and Texas.

- Knowledge of integrating fire protection with liquid cooling and high-density electrical systems.

Additional Requirements:

- Willingness to work extended hours and be fully onsite as needed during critical design, construction, and commissioning phases.

- Ability to work in active construction and industrial environments.

- Strong communication and documentation skills for collaborating with internal teams, contractors, consultants, and regulators.

## Skills

### Required
- Fire Protection Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Clean Agent Systems
- Very Early Warning Smoke Detection
- Water Mist Systems
- Performance-Based Design Approaches
- Alternative Means and Methods Approvals
- Liquid Cooling
- High-Density Electrical Systems

### Nice to have
- Hyperscale AI/HPC Data Centers
- Large Natural Gas-Fired Power Generation Facilities
- NFPA (70, 72, 75, 76, 855, 2001)
- IBC
- IFC
- FM Global
- Local Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)

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