Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenAI is building the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. As a Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer, you will help define, validate, and scale the electrical power systems that support high-density AI compute.
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize electrical topologies and equipment strategies that reduce cost, accelerate schedules, improve efficiency, increase scalability, and maintain high reliability and maintainability
- Review and develop basis-of-design documents, single-line diagrams, equipment specifications, commissioning plans, and power system studies including load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, arc flash, and grid transient compliance
- Lead technical evaluation of equipment vendors, manufacturers, design consultants, commissioning agents, contractors, and test labs. Review submittals, schematics, certifications, quality records, and test reports
- Evaluate AC and DC power distribution options for high-density compute, including rectifier architectures, busway, rack power shelves, power supplies, cable management, redundancy strategies, serviceability, and fault isolation
- Partner with mechanical, cooling, controls, hardware, networking, construction, and operations teams to ensure electrical systems support liquid-cooled GPU rack deployments and reliable facility operation
- Drive FAT, SAT, witness testing, burn-in, reliability testing, interoperability testing, and integrated systems testing for critical infrastructure and rack deployments
- Help guide and operate an R&D program to validate new equipment, rack designs, telemetry, operating envelopes, failure scenarios, and facility-to-hardware interactions
- Define telemetry and controls requirements including metering, waveform capture, breaker and relay status, UPS and battery health, generator status, rack power, CDU status, coolant conditions, alarms, and control states
- Analyze lab data, operational incidents, power quality events, nuisance trips, thermal excursions, controls alarms, and rack-level failures to improve designs, procedures, vendor quality, and reliability models
- Create engineering standards, test procedures, commissioning scripts, operating procedures, decision records, risk registers, and concise executive summaries
- Provide senior technical escalation support during design reviews, construction, manufacturing validation, commissioning, energization, deployment, and operational events
- Raise the technical bar across partner teams in electrical design, safety, testing discipline, documentation quality, reliability, and operational rigors
Skills
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience in mission-critical facilities such as data centers or comparable critical infrastructure
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, power systems, or a related discipline
- Strong hands-on experience with MV/LV distribution, transformers, switchgear, switchboards, generators, UPS systems, batteries, PDUs, RPPs, busway, PSUs, grounding, bonding, and protection systems
- Experience producing and reviewing electrical designs, studies, equipment specifications, commissioning plans, test procedures, and acceptance criteria
- Experience leading FWTs, FATs, SATs, integrated systems testing, failure-mode testing, and root-cause investigations
- Strong understanding of codes, standards, utility coordination, safety requirements, and AHJ processes
- Ability to evaluate conflicting technical tradeoffs involving reliability, cost, schedule, constructability, maintainability, and scalability
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with incomplete information and changing priorities
- 15+ years of relevant experience
- Advanced degree in electrical engineering, power systems, or a related discipline
- Professional Engineer license, Chartered Engineer status, or comparable professional certification
- Direct experience with hyperscale data centers, GPU clusters, high-density rack deployments, or liquid-cooled compute environments
- Experience qualifying new electrical products from prototype through certification, manufacturing ramp, deployment, and lifecycle support
- Experience with BMS, EPMS, DCIM, SCADA, PLCs, protective relays, waveform capture, data historians, or reliability analytics platforms
- Experience with modular power systems, rack-level conversion, BESS, HVDC/LVDC, or other advanced power architectures
- Experience managing global, multi-site deployment programs or manufacturing quality programs
- Familiarity with grid constraints, demand response, renewable integration, or low-carbon infrastructure strategies
Benefits
- Offers Equity
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