Lead, Hardware Deployment Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.</span></p></div><h3>ABOUT THE ROLE:</h3> <p>As the Hardware Deployment Engineer Lead, you will own the end-to-end bring-up of GPU compute hardware across the world's largest AI training clusters. You will build and lead a dedicated in-house hardware deployment team responsible for L11 integration, hardware bring-up, and post-L11 repair of GB300-class systems across multiple data halls concurrently. Your team's throughput directly determines how fast xAI can compute online — this is one of the most critical path activities in the company. You will set the deployment playbook, hold hardware vendors accountable to SLAs, and institutionalize processes so that cluster deployment is limited only by hardware supply and power, never by deployment velocity. The position is based in Memphis, TN.</p> <h3>RESPONSIBILITIES:</h3> <ul> <li>Lead, hire, and develop a dedicated hardware deployment team (deployment engineers, deployment technicians, and repair technicians)