Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is focused on accelerating the development of aligned AI by deploying large-scale compute infrastructure through power acquisition, data-center design and construction, and integrated operations. The Principal Electrical Operations Engineer will serve as the senior technical authority for electrical infrastructure across a hyperscale data-center fleet, leading assessments, operational readiness, commissioning handoffs, high-risk procedures, root-cause analyses, and cross-functional technical standards. The role is remote in the United States and requires approximately 50%–75% travel.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the most senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure across Client’s hyperscale AI data-center fleet
- Lead site assessments, operational audits, and technical-readiness efforts before site activation
- Review designs and specifications from an operational perspective and feed learnings back into design and manufacturing
- Own electrical operational readiness and commissioning-to-operations handoffs for new sites
- Author and approve high-risk electrical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs
- Lead root-cause analysis for significant electrical events through closure
- Connect operations, design, construction, hardware, and EHS teams
- Serve as a technical force multiplier for cluster leads and field engineers
- Travel approximately 50%–75% across the data-center fleet
Skills
- Remote role with heavy travel, expected to be north of 50% and potentially closer to 70%
- Candidates should have experience overseeing large-capacity, hyperscale data-center environments
- Location: Remote in US
- Career experience running mission-critical electrical systems, with a background in the trades, field operations, or both
- Strong command of switchgear, UPS systems, generators, paralleling, ATS/STS, PDUs, and EPMS in live critical environments
- Experience authoring and executing high-risk electrical MOPs
- Experience leading root-cause analysis for significant electrical events through resolution
- Ability to assess operational readiness, audit site posture, and raise technical standards
- Strong technical-readiness and team-development capabilities
- Travel approximately 50%–75% across the data-center fleet
- Preferred experience with hyperscale or large colocation environments operating at hundreds of megawatts
- Preferred NETA and NFPA 70E expertise, EPMS platform experience, arc-flash and electrical-safety program ownership, and Uptime Institute experience
Benefits
- Salary and equity
- Retirement or pension plan, based on local norms
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Generous PTO policy, based on local norms
- Remote role in the US
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