Lead Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical architecture from the medium-voltage bus to the GPU rack, including topology, redundancy, and standards, for halls scaling with AI compute load.
• Establish and defend the redundancy basis, including split-feed and cross-feed schemes against bus-fault, transformer-loss, and switchgear-loss contingencies.
• Establish campus electrical design standards covering equipment tagging, drawing conventions, approved vendors, insulation coordination, grounding, and arc-flash boundaries.
• Own interfaces with compute teams on rack density, step-load behavior, power-capping strategy, and actual-versus-nameplate utilization.
• Own interfaces with mechanical and cooling engineering on CDU, sidecar, and pump electrical loads and their contribution to hall demand.
• Lead design reviews with EPCs, OEMs, and owner's engineers; approve vendor drawings and factory acceptance test procedures.
• Direct Design, Commissioning, R&D, BIM/Designer, and Protection & Controls engineers as the Data Center team grows.
• Collaborate with Transmission & Distribution and Battery Storage leads to maintain a unified model of record for hall design, interconnection, and storage dispatch.
• Ensure compliance with NFPA 70, NFPA 70B, NFPA 70E, NESC, and IEEE standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of electrical power design experience focused on high-power, high-voltage, or mission-critical systems.
• Experience owning medium-voltage distribution architecture in the 10 kV to 35 kV class.
• Professional Engineering license or intention to actively seek a PE license.
• Ability to perform hands-on work in heat, cold, rain, tight quarters, and at heights.
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed for construction, energization, and operations.
• Ability to remain focused in hazardous environments while wearing appropriate PPE.
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. unassisted.
• Ability to provide 24/7 on-call support for emergencies.
• Willingness to work on-site in Memphis, TN; this is not a remote or hybrid role.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% for factory witness testing, vendor and OEM engagement, and support of other sites.
• Valid driver's license.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years in mission-critical, hyperscale, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Experience with high-density AI compute and liquid-cooled deployments.
• Experience delivering repeatable designs across multiple identical halls or phases.
• Experience with power systems analysis software such as ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, PowerWorld, MATLAB, PSCAD, PSEE, or Simulink.
• Fluency in NEC, NFPA 70E, the IEEE 3000 series, and internal reliability frameworks.
• Experience building and leading an engineering team from the first hire.
• Proven ability to lead teams, work independently, and thrive in dynamic, high-stress environments with tight deadlines.