# Controls Engineer

**Company:** [xAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/xai)
**Location:** Memphis, TN, Southaven, MS
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Plc Programming, Siemens Tia Portal, Beckhoff Twincat 3, Hmi, Scada, Ignition, Bms, Epms, Eplan, Python, C#, .Net, SQL, Hvac Controls, Nfpa 79
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Designs, commissions, and maintains automated control systems for AI supercomputer campuses, including cooling plants, electrical distribution, liquid-cooling loops, and data halls. Requires an engineering bachelor’s degree and at least one year of industrial automation and controls experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Participate in initial equipment conceptual development while balancing product specifications, process requirements, layout complexity, cost, and lead-time constraints.
- Design NFPA 79, NEC, and UL 508A-compliant industrial electrical control panels and create electrical, pneumatic, and fluid schematics.
- Simulate processes to assess automation proposals for cooling plants, electrical distribution, and liquid-cooling loops.
- Architect, write, and debug organized, documented, maintainable, and reusable PLC code for critical infrastructure.
- Create simple HMI screens for complex plant and facility systems with sufficient troubleshooting feedback.
- Manage electrical cabinet builds, field wiring, pneumatic systems, and fluid plumbing.
- Select and size electrical and electromechanical components, including VFDs, servo motors, and controllers.
- Deploy automated processes and equipment into live campus operations, including BMS, EPMS, SCADA, and PLC systems serving chillers, CDUs, pumps, and power distribution.
- Establish and maintain project schedules and budgets.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
- At least 1 year of professional experience designing and commissioning industrial automation and controls systems.
- Ability to work onsite in the Memphis, TN / Southaven, MS area.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Willingness to travel to other locations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

## Preferred Skills and Experience
- Building automation systems for critical infrastructure.
- Mechanical/HVAC controls and wiring, including Delta Controls.
- Process integration and electromechanical or mechatronic systems.
- Electrical schematic CAD using EPLAN.
- C#, .NET, Python, and/or SQL.
- PLC programming, preferably Siemens TIA Portal and Beckhoff TwinCAT 3.
- HMI and SCADA programming, preferably Ignition.
- Fieldbus networks, serial communication, and Ethernet communication.
- Building and commissioning electrical control panels and electromechanical systems.
- NEC, NFPA 79, and UL 508A codes.
- Industrial sensors and equipment used in cooling plants and electrical distribution, including temperature, flow, pressure, leak detection, VFDs, chillers, CDUs, and switchgear.
- Experience in data centers, power generation, semiconductor, or other high-reliability industrial environments.
- Fast-paced iterative design and commissioning environments.
- Independent problem-solving with minimal supervision, individually or as part of an integrated team.

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