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DATACENTER DEVELOPMENT LEAD
As a Datacenter Development Lead at SpaceXAI, you’ll lead the charge at our datacenters, building and maintaining the robust, scalable systems that power our cutting-edge AI workloads. Working onsite with cross-functional teams, you’ll oversee the full lifecycle of datacenter infrastructure—from hardware deployment to ongoing optimization—solving complex challenges to ensure high performance and availability. Expect to guide your team, streamline operations, and keep everything running smoothly to fuel our mission of accelerating human scientific discovery through AI.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Oversee the design, installation, and commissioning of datacenter infrastructure, including power, cooling, networking, and compute systems tailored for high-performance AI workloads.
- Work closely with AI researchers, software engineers, and hardware teams to align infrastructure capabilities with SpaceXAI's computational needs.
- Coordinate with vendors and contractors to procure equipment, manage installations, and ensure compliance with SpaceXAI's technical and safety standards.
- Support the facilities team with real estate matters such as identifying prospective properties of interest, negotiating lease and own acquisitions, dispositions (terminations and subleases/assignments), exercising operations and any related matters.
- Work closely with legal, finance and other related departments to execute real estate transactions, including acceptable terms and conditions, timely and accurate payment, and required document and information delivery.
- Forecast and plan for future datacenter capacity needs to support SpaceXAI's growing AI initiatives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of professional experience, or 5+ years of professional experience without a degree.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Licensed real estate agent in CA, WA, TX, and/or FL.
- Contract management experience.
- Familiarity with the infrastructure demands of AI and machine learning workloads, including GPU/TPU clusters and high-bandwidth networking.
- Experience working in fast-paced, mission-driven organizations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- This is not a remote or hybrid position and will require relocation if not already local to the Bastrop, TX areas.
- Position occasionally requires the ability to work extended hours or weekends when needed.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of professional experience, or 5+ years of professional experience without a degree
- Must be local to Bastrop, TX or relocate (not remote or hybrid)
- Applicant must meet ITAR eligibility (U.S. citizen/national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, Asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations)
- Ability to work extended hours or weekends occasionally when needed
- Licensed real estate agent in CA, WA, TX, and/or FL
- Contract management experience
- Familiarity with infrastructure demands of AI/ML workloads including GPU/TPU clusters and high-bandwidth networking
- Experience working in fast-paced, mission-driven organizations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
SpaceX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SpaceX and has not been reviewed or approved by SpaceX.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are a core part of total compensation, with periodic company-run tender offers that create liquidity before any public listing. These mechanisms can make the equity component feel materially valuable in practice.
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Healthcare Strength — The package includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with on-site clinics and health resources at major sites. This breadth of coverage is presented as a strong element of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Major locations feature on-site amenities such as fitness facilities, food/coffee, clinics, and other conveniences. These lifestyle perks enhance day-to-day value alongside cash and equity.
SpaceX Insights
What We Do
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.
