# Lead Electrical Engineer, Deployment Engineering

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $300k – $340k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Electrical Engineering, Mv Distribution, Ups Systems, Switchgear, Standby Generation, Commissioning, Root Cause Analysis, Protective Relay Coordination, Arc Flash, Skm, Etap, Nfpa 70E, Power System Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-07-11

> Lead deployment, commissioning, and reliability of electrical power systems for AI data centers across multiple sites. Requires data center commissioning experience, MV/UPS/switchgear expertise, standards development, and up to 50% travel.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Lead end-to-end deployment and commissioning of electrical power systems across concurrent sites, from pre-deployment readiness through energization, acceptance testing, and live handover.
- Own operational reliability of electrical infrastructure across the live fleet, leading root cause analysis on power events and implementing corrective actions that cut repeat incidents.
- Build and maintain electrical commissioning standards, acceptance test procedures, and runbooks covering MV distribution, UPS, switchgear, and rack-level delivery.
- Serve as the on-site technical authority through switchgear energization, transformer commissioning, generator load testing, and UPS validation, resolving field failures before they delay handover.
- Set and enforce electrical reliability standards across the portfolio: protective relay coordination, redundancy validation, failover testing, and arc flash compliance.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Owned field deployment and commissioning of electrical systems on data centers or mission-critical facilities.
- Energized and commissioned MV distribution, UPS systems, switchgear, and standby generation on live or commissioning-phase infrastructure.
- Built electrical commissioning standards, acceptance test procedures, and reliability runbooks that hold up at a portfolio level.
- Led root cause analysis and corrective actions on power availability events under time pressure.
- Mentored electrical engineers in the field and built their ability to commission independently.
- Ability to travel to deployment and operations sites up to 50 percent of the time.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Experience building or leading an electrical commissioning or power reliability program across multiple concurrent sites.
- Proficiency in SKM or ETAP for power system analysis, arc flash studies, and protective relay coordination.
- Familiarity with CMMS platforms, EPMS/DCIM power monitoring, and predictive maintenance tools.
- Knowledge of NFPA 70E, NFPA 110, IEEE 3006, and Uptime Institute reliability standards.

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