Network Development Engineer

As a Network Development Engineer at xAI's Memphis data center, you'll jump into the role building and scaling our global network with a pragmatic, hands-on approach. Working onsite with passionate, high-achieving teams, you'll tackle technical challenges, balance speed with quality, and grow your skills in a fast-paced tech environment. Expect to configure, troubleshoot, and deploy network systems, ensuring robust connectivity to power xAI's mission of accelerating human scientific discovery through AI. This is an in-person role based in Memphis, Tennessee, with approximately 30-40% travel required.

Responsibilities

• Be onsite in our Memphis data center or any other datacenter working alongside our SiteOps engineers and other network engineers.
• Troubleshoot physical network devices and links, test to ensure they operate as expected and put back into production.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of tooling, automation and operational procedures.
• Network troubleshooting and fault analysis; hardware troubleshooting and repair of devices outside data centers.
• Trouble ticket generation and response; carrier interface and escalations.
• Liaise with third parties to fix and resolve issues.
• Creation and execution of scheduled changes, process & documentation.
• Participate in a 12x7 call-out rotation and shift work based on the time zone you're hired in.
• Software/firmware installation.
• Monitor, manage, and respond to network based alerts.
• Automate away repeatable work using python or Ansible like tools.
• Project work that comes in from upstream Net. Eng teams i.e datacenter tech refresh, decommissioning older devices and provisioning new ones.

Basic Qualifications

• B.S. in network engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 1+ years of Network Engineering experience troubleshooting physical and logical issues.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Beginner to intermediate logical and physical understanding of break/fix operations including: Network layer 1,2,3, and 4.
• Beginner to intermediate understanding of network fundamentals Routing, Switching, IP services, and network automation.
• Working knowledge of at least two internal routing protocols, its configuration and day to day operation.
• Beginner to Intermediate working knowledge of Backbone and Datacenter networks.
• Beginner to Intermediate working knowledge of TCP/IP.
• Vendor certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA and JNCIP.
• Vendor Hardware Cisco, Juniper, NVIDIA, Avocent.
• Understanding of unix/linux shells and scripting languages (python preferred).
• Ability to learn new networking protocols, programming/scripting languages, and vendor operating systems as necessary.
• Methodical troubleshooting approach.
• Strong documentation and communication skill set.
• Technical project management mindset.
• Team-player, takes initiative, and highly motivated.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work for extended periods of time standing, when needed.
• Work is often performed in tight quarters and physical dexterity is necessary to perform job functions.
• Comfortable working in an environment requiring exposure to noise.
• Ability to work evenings and weekends as needed.
• Ability to lift or carry 10-15lbs.

xAI is an equal opportunity employer.