Electrical Engineer (Physical Infrastructure)
Designs, builds, and optimizes power infrastructure including battery storage, high-voltage transmission, and on-site generation for xAI's AI supercomputing facilities. Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure reliability and compliance for massive-scale data centers.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and engineer electrical systems for on-site power generation, high-voltage transmission, and large-scale battery energy storage supporting AI superclusters.
- Develop single-line diagrams, protection & control schematics, relay settings, and interconnection designs.
- Perform detailed power system studies (load flow, short circuit, arc flash, transient stability, harmonics) using ETAP, PSS/E, or equivalent tools.
- Integrate electrical systems with generators, battery storage, transmission infrastructure, and data center loads.
- Ensure compliance with relevant standards (NERC, ERCOT, IEEE, NEC, NFPA, UL) and support permitting and utility coordination.
- Support equipment specification, vendor selection, factory testing, site commissioning, and energization.
- Conduct failure mode analysis (FMEA), root cause investigations, and reliability modeling to achieve extreme uptime targets.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on new facility builds, capacity expansions, and continuous improvement of power standards.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience in Battery Storage: BESS, inverters/PCS, BMS integration, NFPA 855.
- Experience in Power Transmission: High-voltage substations, transmission lines, grid interconnection (ERCOT).
- Experience in Power Generation: Gas turbine generators, excitation, synchronization, islanded operation.
- Background with data centers, hyperscale facilities, or large on-site power infrastructure (>50 MW).
- Knowledge of ERCOT, NERC reliability standards, and utility interconnection processes.
- Experience supporting construction, commissioning, and operations of power systems.
- Track record of innovation or high-impact delivery in power infrastructure projects.
Skills
Etap, Pss/E, Bess, Pcs, Bms, Nerc, Ercot, Ieee, Nec, Nfpa, Fmea
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