# Controls Technician (Physical Infrastructure) - Memphis

**Company**: SpaceXAI
**Location**: Memphis, TN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

As a member of the Supercomputer Physical Infrastructure team, you will provide hands-on support for the integration, commissioning, troubleshooting, and maintenance of control systems across our AI training campuses.

## Responsibilities:

- Support integration and commissioning of vendor and OEM equipment into campus BMS, EPMS, and SCADA systems and plant PLC controls

- Perform safe controls and electrical work within LOTO, arc-flash, interlock, bypass-control, and restart-verification requirements; identify hazards, verify zero energy, validate safety devices after repair, and escalate unsafe conditions or unauthorized changes

- Maximize uptime of cooling, electrical, and facility control assets through hands-on troubleshooting, basic repairs, and corrective actions on electromechanical, pneumatic, and control systems

- Wire, commission, validate, build, and maintain industrial control panels and field devices to NFPA 79 and UL 508A standards; replace like-for-like components (power supplies, relays, fuses, terminal blocks, sensors), restore wiring condition, and create accurate redlines

- Navigate and diagnose PLCs, HMIs, alarms, permissives, sequences, I/O status, and logic behavior; clear approved alarms, perform basic recovery, capture evidence, and support minor authorized parameter adjustments with documentation

- Set up, diagnose, replace, and validate sensors, instrumentation, and industrial networks serving chillers, CDUs, pumps, and power distribution; verify signals, alignment, scaling, and network health

- Support controls for VFDs, pumps, valves, and related equipment; perform documented resets, recovery, and safe dry-cycle checks

- Provide controls support for process-critical campus systems, including cooling plants, liquid-cooling loops, electrical distribution, and fire / emergency shutdown (ESOP); protect plant stability during recovery

- Perform structured fault finding, root-cause support, and rapid corrective actions to minimize downtime

- Collaborate with Controls Engineers, facilities operations, and construction to deliver safe, reliable solutions and continuous improvement

- Maintain accurate documentation, work tickets, and records

## Basic Qualifications:

- High school diploma or equivalency certificate

- 2+ years of hands-on experience with mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, or hydraulic systems in a manufacturing, industrial, or critical-facility environment; OR associate's degree in a technical field (controls technology, mechatronics, automation, or equivalent)

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Strong working knowledge of NFPA 70 (National Electrical Code), NFPA 70E, NFPA 79, and UL 508A

- Demonstrated hands-on skill in fault finding, structured troubleshooting, electrical panel work, multimeter use, schematic reading, and problem resolution

- Ability to read, interpret, and redline electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic schematics and drawings

- PLC and HMI experience or familiarization with Siemens TIA Portal, Beckhoff TwinCAT, and/or Allen-Bradley RSLogix / Studio 5000; ability to navigate alarms, I/O status, sequences, and basic diagnostics

- Experience with electrical control panel building and wiring; sensors and instrumentation (temperature, flow, pressure, leak detection, proximity, encoders, IO-Link)

- Experience with SCADA systems (Ignition preferred), actuators, VFDs, interlocks, and industrial networks

- Experience in data centers, power generation, semiconductor, or other high-reliability industrial environments

- Excellent documentation and communication skills; familiarity with CMMS or work-ticket systems

- Creative problem-solver with a high sense of urgency, able to work independently or as part of a team in a fast-paced environment

## Additional Requirements:

- Must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed

- Must be willing to travel to other locations

- Ability to work onsite in the Memphis, TN / Southaven, MS area

- Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs. unassisted

- Must be able to walk and stand for long periods of time, and to climb ladders, bend, stoop, and work in tight spaces

## Skills

### Required
- mechanical systems
- electrical systems
- pneumatic systems
- hydraulic systems
- controls technology
- mechatronics
- automation

### Nice to have
- NFPA 70
- NFPA 70E
- NFPA 79
- UL 508A
- PLC
- HMI
- SCADA systems
- electrical control panel building
- sensors and instrumentation

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