# Electrical Engineer, Protection and Controls, R&D

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $203k – $232k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** protection engineering, relay settings, coordination studies, sel relays, mv systems, hv systems, commissioning, event record analysis, iec 61850, scada, nerc prc, arc-flash mitigation
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Electrical Engineer responsible for designing, setting, and commissioning protection and controls schemes for high-power campus infrastructure supporting AI compute. Requires hands-on experience with MV/HV relay coordination, SEL platforms, field commissioning, and event analysis.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Engineer protection and controls for campus power: relaying schemes from generation through distribution.
- Own the settings: coordination studies and relay files developed, verified, and configuration-managed.
- Design the P&C architecture: relays, communications, and SCADA integration per the reference design.
- Support commissioning: settings loaded, functions tested, and misoperations root-caused.

## Requirements
- Experience in protection engineering: relay settings and coordination for MV and HV systems.
- Developed settings for SEL or equivalent platforms hands-on.
- Commissioned protection schemes in the field.
- Investigated relay operations and found the truth in the event records.
- Settings files managed like the safety-critical code they are.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Generator protection.
- IEC 61850 and communications-assisted schemes.
- NERC PRC exposure.
- Arc-flash mitigation schemes.

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