Lead Electrical Engineer, Capacity Delivery

Fluidstack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack seeks a senior electrical engineer in New York to own the electrical engineering across data center builds, from utility interface to energization.

You will review protection studies, coordinate with utilities and AHJs, and drive energization readiness while balancing speed and safety. PE license a plus; MV/HV distribution and interconnection expertise preferred.

Qualifications

• Led electrical engineering for data center or heavy industrial builds.
• Reviewed protection and coordination studies and found errors.
• Owned energization sequences with utilities and AHJs.
• Balanced speed and safety in field decisions.
• PE license and MV/HV distribution knowledge are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical engineering across the portfolio from utility interface to energization.
• Set and evolve the electrical reference design: switchgear lineups, UPS topology, and busway.
• Make field energization readiness calls site by site.
• Review consultant studies, short circuit, coordination and arc flash considerations.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Project leadership

Field energization

Protection studies review

Education

Electrical engineering degree

PE license (bonus)

Tools

Protection coordination tools

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.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• 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.

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Engineer gigawatts from drawing to energized, in months not years. Capacity Delivery owns technical execution across every build: the drawings, the field questions, and the engineering calls that keep multiple concurrent gigawatt sites moving.
• Engineer data centers that go up in months, not years. At that pace rework is not an option: problems get caught on paper or they cost a data hall.
• Design it once, build it a hundred times. Every site's lessons roll into the reference design on the way to 10s to 100s of GWs, so each build starts ahead of the last.

Role Scope

• Own electrical engineering across the portfolio: distribution from utility interface to rack, reference design to energization.
• Set and evolve the electrical reference design: switchgear lineups, UPS topology, and busway.
• Make the field electrical calls at build speed and own energization readiness site by site.
• Review consultant studies, short circuit, coordination, arc flash, critically rather than ceremonially.

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 led electrical engineering for data center or heavy industrial builds.
• You review protection and coordination studies and find the errors in them.
• You've owned energization sequences with utilities and AHJs.
• Your field decisions balance speed and safety without trading either away.
• Bonus: PE license. MV and HV distribution. Behind-the-meter generation. Utility interconnection.

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: $250K - $292K