AI Data Center Substation & Grid Engineering Director

Greenhouse Software, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

NScale is seeking a Director of Substation & Grid Engineering to lead the design of substations, transformers, switchgear, and protection schemes for our data center portfolio. You will own load and generator interconnection studies, coordinate with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and transmission owners, and mentor a team of Staff Engineers to deliver reliable, scalable power for high-density AI workloads.

This leadership role requires strong technical and cross-functional collaboration to stay on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 8-12+ years of experience in substation design, protection and controls, or grid engineering.
• Strong ability to interpret and produce electrical one-lines, protection schemes, and system studies.
• Demonstrated success leading or mentoring engineering teams.
• Direct experience preparing and managing load and/or generator interconnection applications with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, or transmission owners.
• Ability to serve as a technical resource to commercial and development teams on interconnection and grid topics.

Responsibilities

• Define technical requirements and design standards for substations, transformers, switchgear, protection, and metering.
• Collaborate with internal and external design teams on one-line diagrams, protection schemes, and redundancy strategies (N, N+1, 2N).
• Oversee fault and reliability studies supporting substation and grid design.
• Define electrical topology and one-line requirements for on-site generation integration, including paralleling, synchronization, islanding, and black-start concepts.
• Establish protection and controls philosophy for generation integration (relaying, coordination, fault duty, grounding, synchronization, load sharing).
• Guide equipment specification for generator sets, switchgear, transformers, e-houses, and balance-of-plant, accounting for long-lead risk.

Skills

Substation design

Protection & controls

Grid engineering

Interconnection programs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Job description

NScale is seeking a Director of Substation & Grid Engineering to lead the design of substations, transformers, switchgear, and protection schemes for our data center portfolio. You will own load and generator interconnection studies, coordinate with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and transmission owners, and mentor a team of Staff Engineers to deliver reliable, scalable power for high-density AI workloads.

This leadership role requires strong technical and cross-functional collaboration to stay on