Electrical Reliability Engineer — Data Center (Remote)

Switch; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Karma culture

Remote opportunities

Generous benefits

Career growth

Job summary

Switch is seeking a Reliability Engineer - Electrical to own complex reliability analyses for mission-critical electrical systems. You will develop electrical BIA and FMEA packages, define monitoring requirements, and recommend maintenance, testing, spare-parts, and design-change actions.

Your work will improve infrastructure reliability, maintenance quality, operational readiness, and risk-based investment decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Four+ years of electrical reliability, design, commissioning, or critical-facilities operations experience.
• Experience with power systems, protection and controls, switchgear, UPS, generators, batteries, transfer systems, or electrical distribution.
• Ability to interpret one-line diagrams, protection requirements, operating modes, and redundancy.
• Experience with electrical maintenance, testing, condition monitoring, or failure analysis.
• Ability to facilitate SME workshops, validate field conditions, and communicate risk.
• Ability to write clear technical findings, recommendations, and action plans.
• Ability to work across office or remote settings with 25–40% travel.

Responsibilities

• Define electrical system boundaries, functions, performance standards, redundancy assumptions, and criticality.
• Analyze utility service, transformers, generators, switchgear, transfer systems, UPS, batteries and related controls.
• Validate one-line diagrams, protection intent, operating modes, bypass paths, and common-cause vulnerabilities.
• Develop electrical BIA and FMEA packages documenting failure modes, effects, causes, indicators, and actions.
• Define telemetry and condition-monitoring requirements for critical failure modes.
• Recommend preventive, condition-based, and predictive maintenance strategies by failure mode.
• Recommend inspections, testing, spare-parts strategies, redesigns, or run-to-failure decisions when appropriate.
• Support event reviews, root-cause analyses, commissioning, and vendor technical reviews.
• Facilitate technical workshops and document assumptions, decisions, risks, owners, and follow-up actions.
• Track completed analyses, telemetry gaps, peer-review findings, risk reduction, and maintenance improvements.

Skills

Electrical reliability

One-line diagrams

Failure analysis

Technical workshops

Risk-based decisions

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Switch is seeking a Reliability Engineer - Electrical to own complex reliability analyses for mission-critical electrical systems. You will develop electrical BIA and FMEA packages, define monitoring requirements, and recommend maintenance, testing, spare-parts, and design-change actions.

Your work will improve infrastructure reliability, maintenance quality, operational readiness, and risk-based investment decisions.