Senior Electrical Engineer – Solutions Engineering (Australia)

STACK Infrastructure; Cremorne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

STACK Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer – Solution Engineering to lead electrical design from concept through construction on data centre projects. You will provide technical leadership, evaluate options, and ensure safety, reliability, and energy efficiency across programs.

The role includes mentoring graduates, coordinating with consultants, and driving cost efficiency while aligning with STACK standards and customer requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant electrical engineering experience.
• Experience delivering electrical design solutions for complex infrastructure.
• Previous data centre experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical input for customer sales requirements.
• Develop concept designs for early customer discussions.
• Develop long lead equipment documentation and review vendor proposals.
• Drive updates to internal drawings and schematics.
• Coordinate with consultants to meet customer requirements and ensure buildability.
• Reduce construction cost by removing over-engineering or conservatism.
• Mentor graduate and junior engineers to develop STACK's capabilities.

Skills

Electrical engineering

HV/LV systems

Power distribution

Data centre design

Concept design

Leadership

Job description

Company Overview

STACK Infrastructure builds, owns, and operates hyperscale and colocation data centers that power the world’s most ambitious technology companies. With a rapidly expanding footprint across APAC, STACK combines deep development expertise, flexible capital, and operational discipline to deliver critical digital infrastructure at scale.

Our clients include the largest hyperscale cloud platforms. We are building a regional platform defined by speed of delivery, power reliability, and long-term partnership — and we are assembling the team to lead that effort.

The Summary

The Senior Electrical Engineer – Solution Engineering is responsible for developing and delivering robust electrical engineering solutions across data centre projects, from concept design through to implementation. The role provides technical leadership, evaluates design options, supports project teams and stakeholders, and ensures solutions meet safety, reliability, compliance and operational requirements. The position also brings innovative thinking to achieve high-quality technical solutions that support cost reduction, flexibility, speed of delivery and improved energy efficiency across projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical input and information for customer sales requirements.
• Develop concept designs for early customer discussions and consultant briefing.
• Develop long lead equipment technical documentation and review vendor proposals.
• Drive updates to internal BOD drawings and schematics.
• Steer consultants using technical expertise in weekly activities to achieve design outcomes.
• Working with consultants to ensure deliverables are compliant with customer requirements, technically correct, high quality, on time and buildable.
• Review consultant designs against STACK BOD and customer requirements.
• Reduce construction cost by identifying and removing over-engineering or conservatism.
• Support construction activities via review and approval of workshop drawings.
• Support the research and development activities to drive STACK’s next generation design solutions.
• Support and mentor graduate and junior engineers helping develop STACK's future capabilities.
• Provide technical input to operational issues to help identify root causes and potential solutions.

Must-Have Experience

• Minimum 7 years of relevant electrical engineering experience, including experience delivering electrical design solutions for complex infrastructure or mission-critical projects. Previous data centre experience is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of HV/LV systems, switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS and power distribution.
• Experience developing and reviewing electrical solutions from concept design through construction and commissioning.

Good-to-Have Experience

• Experience in data centre design, construction or operations.
• Experience in value engineering, energy-efficient design, modular solutions or power system modelling.

Equal Opportunity Employer

STACK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.