Remote Electrical Reliability Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Culture of Karma

Remote opportunities

Generous benefits

Job summary

Switch, a leader in data center infrastructure, 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.

This role sits in the RCM Analysis & Maintenance Strategy within Reliability Engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 4+ years in electrical reliability, design, commissioning, or critical facilities ops.
• Experience with power systems, protection and controls, switchgear, UPS, generators, batteries.
• Ability to read one-line diagrams, protection requirements and redundancy.
• Experience with maintenance, testing, condition monitoring or failure analysis.
• Ability to facilitate SME workshops, validate field conditions, and communicate risk.
• Strong ability to write technical findings, recommendations, and action plans.
• Read and follow technical docs, site procedures, safety reqs and change-control.

Responsibilities

• Define electrical system boundaries, functions, performance standards, redundancy, and criticality.
• Analyze utility service, transformers, switchgear, UPS, generators, and distribution equipment.
• Validate diagrams and protection intent; assess common-cause vulnerabilities.
• Develop BIA and FMEA packages documenting failure modes and action thresholds.
• Define telemetry and monitoring requirements for critical failure modes.
• Recommend preventive, condition-based, and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Suggest inspections, testing, spare-parts strategies and design changes as needed.
• Support event reviews, root-cause analyses, and vendor technical reviews.
• Lead technical workshops and document decisions, risks, owners and follow-ups.
• Track analyses, maintenance gaps, and risk reduction improvements.

Skills

Electrical reliability

One-line diagrams

Power systems

Protection & controls

Electrical safety

Technical writing

Workshop facilitation

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Job description

Switch, a leader in data center infrastructure, 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.

This role sits in the RCM Analysis & Maintenance Strategy within Reliability Engineering.