Senior Electrical Delivery Engineer

Lambda Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness and commuter stipends

401k Plan with 2% company match

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, seeks an experienced electrical engineer to lead commissioning and field operations for data center projects in the SF Bay Area. You will verify installations, validate protective settings, and drive issue resolution on high-stakes energization activities.

Ideal candidates hold a bachelor’s in electrical engineering and have hands-on experience with electrical testing, site turnover, and field leadership at mission-critical facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience delivering, commissioning, or operating electrical systems in data centers or similar facilities.
• Ability to read single-line diagrams and equipment submittals.
• Strong safety and NEC/IEEE knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Perform site walkdowns to verify installed electrical systems against designs, diagrams and standards.
• Validate equipment ratings, protection settings, grounding, labeling, and redundancy.
• Identify deficiencies and document punch-list items for closure.
• Review tests and witness factory, site and integrated system testing.

Skills

Data center experience

Electrical systems commissioning

Field decision making

Site coordination

Electrical safety knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

ETAP

SKM

EasyPower

Procore

Bluebeam

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

What You'll Do

• Perform site walkdowns to verify installed electrical systems against approved designs, single-line diagrams, specifications, submittals, and Lambda standards.

• Validate equipment ratings, protection settings, phasing, grounding and bonding, terminations, labeling, redundancy, and electrical failure domains.

• Identify installation deficiencies, design conflicts, and operational risks; document punch-list items and drive them through closure.

• Review construction test results and witness factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, functional testing, and integrated systems testing.

• Develop and review energization plans, MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, switching procedures, and electrical safety controls.

• Support initial energization and troubleshoot issues involving substations, transformers, switchgear, UPS systems, generators, busway, PDUs, RPPs, and rack-level distribution.

• Coordinate with design engineers, engineering partners, utilities, general contractors, electrical trades, equipment manufacturers, commissioning agents, operations, and HPC deployment teams.

• Confirm that electrical capacity, voltage, redundancy, monitoring, and protection are ready before IT equipment is energized.

• Validate as-built documentation, equipment settings, test reports, commissioning records, and turnover packages before operational handoff.

• Capture field lessons and incorporate them into Lambda's design standards, commissioning requirements, and site-validation playbooks.

• Mentor other engineers and provide senior technical leadership during high-risk energization and bring-up activities.

You

• Have significant experience delivering, commissioning, or operating electrical systems in data centers, mission-critical facilities, utilities, or large industrial environments.

• Understand both medium- and low-voltage distribution, including transformers, switchgear, protective relays, generators, UPS systems, busway, grounding, and rack-level power.

• Can interpret single-line diagrams, equipment submittals, protection studies, relay settings, test reports, and construction documentation.

• Have hands‑on experience with site inspections, electrical testing, energization, commissioning, or operational turnover.

• Understand electrical safety, lockout/tagout, energized work controls, and applicable NEC, NFPA 70E, IEEE, and NETA requirements.

• Can distinguish between cosmetic deficiencies and conditions that create material safety, reliability, or operational risk.

• Are comfortable making decisions in the field, escalating critical issues, and coordinating corrective work under schedule pressure.

• Communicate clearly with construction teams, engineers, vendors, operators, and senior stakeholders.

• Are willing to travel extensively and spend extended periods at active construction and commissioning sites.

• Hold a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience commissioning hyperscale, colocation, HPC, or AI data centers.

• Experience supporting first energization and initial IT-load or GPU-cluster bring‑up.

• Familiarity with Level 1–5 commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational‑readiness processes.

• Experience with protective‑relay testing, breaker testing, insulation‑resistance testing, power‑quality analysis, or infrared inspections.

• Experience using tools such as ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, Procore, Bluebeam, or commissioning‑management platforms.

• Experience investigating electrical failures and leading root‑cause analysis.

• Professional Engineer licensure, commissioning certification, or NETA‑related experience.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast

• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In‑Q‑Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove

• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG

• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers

• We offer generous cash & equity compensation

• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles

• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)

• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.