Electrical Engineering Team Lead

JOB TITLE: Electrical Engineering Team Lead
LOCATION: Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA, with 30% travel required.
DURATION: FTE Direct Hire
PAY RANGE: $300K – $365K; offers equity

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering supporting hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, utility infrastructure, industrial facilities, power generation, or large-scale engineering projects.
• 3+ years of direct people-management experience leading electrical engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, coaching, performance management, and technical leadership.
• Demonstrated ownership of electrical engineering programs from utility interconnection through energization and operational turnover.
• Experience leading electrical design and execution for medium- and low-voltage power distribution systems, including substations, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, busway, PDUs, generators, grounding systems, and critical power infrastructure.
• Strong experience reviewing and validating:
  • Short-circuit studies
  • Protective device coordination studies
  • Arc flash studies
  • Load flow studies
  • Electrical system calculations
• Experience supporting site energization activities, startup planning, utility coordination, turnover, and operational readiness.
• Experience managing engineering consultants, EORs, EPC partners, contractors, utilities, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Ability to make rapid engineering decisions during active construction and commissioning while balancing safety, reliability, schedule, and cost considerations.
• Experience supporting multiple projects simultaneously across various stages of design, construction, commissioning, and operations.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Hyperscale data center experience.
• AI infrastructure experience.
• Utility interconnection experience.
• Behind-the-meter generation experience.
• Experience with:
  • ETAP
  • SKM
  • EasyPower
  • SEL Protection Systems
  • MV/HV infrastructure
• Experience supporting:
  • 100MW+ facilities
  • Campus-scale deployments
  • Modular electrical systems
  • Prefabricated electrical infrastructure
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Experience supporting commissioning and energization of mission-critical facilities.

THE CAPACITY DELIVERY TEAM:
Examples of key problems the team is working on:

• Engineer gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months, not years. Capacity Delivery owns technical execution across every build: the drawings, the field questions, and the engineering calls that keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving.
• Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years. At that pace, rework is not an option: problems get caught on paper or they cost a data hall.
• Design it once, build a hundred times. Every site's lessons roll into the reference design on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs, so each build starts ahead of the last.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own electrical engineering across the portfolio: distribution from utility interface to rack, reference design to energization.
• Set and evolve the electrical reference design: switchgear lineups, UPS topology, and busway.
• Make the field electrical calls at build speed and own energization readiness site by site.
• Review consultant studies, short circuit, coordination, arc flash, critically rather than ceremonially.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would:

• You've led electrical engineering for data center or heavy industrial builds.
• You review protection and coordination studies and find the errors in them.
• You've owned energization sequences with utilities and AHJs.
• Your field decisions balance speed and safety without trading either away.
• Bonus: PE license. MV and HV distribution. Behind-the-meter generation. Utility interconnection.

BENEFITS SUMMARY: Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.

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BENEFITS SUMMARY:
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.

FAIR CHANCE POLICY:
Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.