Electrical Engineer, Substation Design R&D

Fluidstack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 203,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a Substation Engineer to design HV substations and lead end-to-end electrical infrastructure projects. You will own layouts, bus configurations, and equipment specifications to meet utility standards, collaborating with utilities and consultants to ensure first-pass approvals.

You will also standardize substation designs across sites and contribute to interconnection processes, with additional opportunities in advanced grounding studies and GIS substation work.

Qualifications

• Experience designing HV substations: physical, one-line diagrams, and protection interfaces.
• Experience taking substation packages through utility review.
• Specifying transformers, breakers, and switchgear at transmission class.
• Experience supporting substation construction and energization.
• Productizing designs rather than redrawing them.

Responsibilities

• Engineer substation designs for campus interconnection: HV yards and MV distribution substations.
• Own the physical and electrical design: layouts, bus configurations, equipment specs to utility standards.
• Interface with utilities and consultants: translate requirements into designs passing review on first pass.
• Standardize the substation: publish one design across sites rather than bespoke yards.

Skills

HV substations design

Utility review experience

Transformers & switchgear specs

Substation construction support

Design standardization

Interconnection processes

GIS substations

Grounding studies (IEEE 80)

138kV+ experience

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.


• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.


• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.


• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.


• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

Role Scope

• Engineer substation designs for campus interconnection: HV yards and MV distribution substations in the reference design.


• Own the physical and electrical design: layouts, bus configurations, and equipment specs to utility standards.


• Interface with utilities and consultants: requirements translated into designs that pass review the first time.


• Standardize the substation: one design stamped across sites instead of bespoke yards.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.


• You've designed HV substations: physical, one-line, and protection interfaces.


• You've taken substation packages through utility review.


• You specify transformers, breakers, and switchgear at transmission class.


• You've supported substation construction and energization.


• You productize designs rather than redrawing them.


• Bonus: 138kV-plus experience. Grounding studies (IEEE 80). GIS substations. Interconnection processes.

Physical Requirements

• Work in non-climate-controlled environments, including active construction areas, data halls, electrical and mechanical rooms, and outdoor spaces. Temperatures can be high or low, and conditions can be humid, loud or dusty.


• Lift, carry, push and pull up to 40 pounds on your own.


• Sit, stand, walk, kneel, bend and crouch for long periods, including full shifts on your feet.


• Wear the required personal protective equipment (PPE), such as hard hats, safety glasses, steel-toed boots, gloves and hearing protection, and follow site safety rules.


• Climb stairs and ladders, and move around equipment, cable trays and uneven surfaces.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Compensation Range: $203K - $232K