# Electrical Commissioning Lead, R&D

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $197k – $227k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** electrical commissioning, power distribution, protection relays, power quality analysis, switching tests, transfer tests, event record analysis, neta testing, generator testing, ups testing, fat processes, data center electrical systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead the commissioning of electrical systems (distribution, protection, power quality) for first-of-kind AI data center units. Execute, analyze, and improve functional/integrated tests, reconcile data against studies, and support factory FAT processes. Requires prior electrical commissioning experience on data centers, substations or industrial plants.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Commission the electrical systems of first units: distribution, protection, and power quality verified to design.
- Execute and improve the scripts: functional and integrated tests run, gaps found, and the reference package fixed.
- Analyze the results: relay operations, transfer tests, and load data reconciled against the studies.
- Support the factory: electrical FAT processes for modules before they ship.

## Requirements
- Commissioned electrical systems on data centers, substations, or industrial plants.
- Execute switching, transfer, and protection tests with discipline.
- Read event records and power quality data and find the story in it.
- Caught design or settings errors during commissioning and drove them to fixed.
- Work energized environments by the book.

## Nice-to-Haves
- NETA testing background.
- Protection relay testing.
- Generator and UPS integrated tests.
- FAT development.

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