Senior Data Center Electrical Lead: Energization & Commissioning

Lambda; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401k with 2% company match

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is hiring an electrical systems engineer to deliver, commission, and operate critical data-center electrical systems. You will perform site walkdowns, validate ratings and safety controls, and drive issue closure with multiple stakeholders.

The role requires hands-on inspection, energization expertise, and the ability to interpret diagrams and documents. Extensive travel to active sites is expected, with leadership responsibilities during bring-up phases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience delivering, commissioning, or operating electrical systems in data centers, utilities, or large industrial environments.
• Ability to interpret single-line diagrams, submittals, protection studies, and construction documentation.

Responsibilities

• Perform site walkdowns to verify installed electrical systems against designs, diagrams, specs, and Lambda standards.
• Validate equipment ratings, protection, grounding, terminations, labeling, redundancy, and electrical failure domains.
• Identify installation deficiencies, design conflicts, and risks; document punch-list items and drive closure.
• Review construction test results and witness factory acceptance, site acceptance, functional, and integrated system testing.
• Develop and review energization plans, MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, switching procedures, and electrical safety controls.
• Support energization and troubleshoot substations, transformers, switchgear, UPS, generators, busway, rack-level distribution.
• Coordinate with design engineers, utilities, contractors, electrical trades, equipment manufacturers, commissioning agents, operations, and HPC teams.
• Confirm readiness before IT equipment energization and review turnover packages prior to handoff.
• Capture field lessons and update Lambda's design standards and playbooks.
• Mentor engineers and provide senior technical leadership during high-risk energization and bring-up activities.

Skills

Electrical systems

Data center experience

Site inspections

Electrical testing

Energization

NEC NFPA 70E knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

ETAP

SKM

EasyPower

Procore

Bluebeam

Commissioning platforms

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is hiring an electrical systems engineer to deliver, commission, and operate critical data-center electrical systems. You will perform site walkdowns, validate ratings and safety controls, and drive issue closure with multiple stakeholders.

The role requires hands-on inspection, energization expertise, and the ability to interpret diagrams and documents. Extensive travel to active sites is expected, with leadership responsibilities during bring-up phases.