The posting, in xAI's own words
archived Sep 2, 2026SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. 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. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
As a Site Reliability Engineer focused on campus reliability, you will design what the campus watches and trusts, technically command cross-discipline SEVs, and build the guardrails that make the next incident smaller. You are the connective tissue across compute, network, storage, power, and cooling. This role demands calm incident leadership, fleet-scale observability judgment, and the ability to drive reliability work across software and facility boundaries.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
Own monitoring architecture and signal quality: what we alert on, suppress, and trust. Consume NOC noise-disposition feedback to drive suppression and redesign. Treat alert noise as a design failure, not an operator failure. Provide SEV command support: technical incident leadership, bridge coordination with the NOC, and timeline and severity hygiene. Run blameless postmortems and drive corrective actions to closed, not filed. Lead cross-functional reliability projects spanning compute, network, storage, and facility signal boundaries. Build and maintain playbooks, run game days, and keep cross-discipline dependency maps current. Own runbook quality jointly with the NOC (SRE designs; NOC operates and corrects). Define error budgets and availability objectives at campus and service boundaries as adopted by the business. Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for SEV-class events in the Memphis / Southaven data center campus.