Protection & Controls Electrical Engineer (MV/HV)

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a seasoned Protection Engineer to design, verify, and commission MV/HV protection schemes for campus-scale data center infrastructure in Austin, TX. You will own relay settings, perform coordination studies, and implement IEC 61850-based communications with SEL platforms.

Join a fast-paced team building critical AI compute capacity, where rigorous safety-critical coding practices and field deployment are essential to reliability and uptime.

Qualifications

• You've done protection engineering: relay settings and coordination for MV and HV systems.
• You've developed settings for SEL or equivalent platforms hands-on.
• You've commissioned protection schemes in the field.
• You've investigated relay operations and found the truth in the event records.
• Your settings files are managed like the safety-critical code they are.
• Bonus: Generator protection. IEC 61850 and communications-assisted schemes. NERC PRC exposure. Arc-flash mitigation schemes.

Responsibilities

• Engineer protection and controls for campus power: relaying schemes from generation through distribution.
• Own the settings: coordination studies and relay files developed, verified, and configuration-managed.
• Design the P&C architecture: relays, communications, and SCADA integration per the reference design.
• Support commissioning: settings loaded, functions tested, and misoperations root-caused.

Skills

Protection engineering

Relay settings

Coordination studies

SEL experience

Field commissioning

IEC 61850

NERC PRC

Tools

SEL platform

Job description

Fluidstack is seeking a seasoned Protection Engineer to design, verify, and commission MV/HV protection schemes for campus-scale data center infrastructure in Austin, TX. You will own relay settings, perform coordination studies, and implement IEC 61850-based communications with SEL platforms.

Join a fast-paced team building critical AI compute capacity, where rigorous safety-critical coding practices and field deployment are essential to reliability and uptime.