Senior T&D Engineer — Campus Power Systems

Pantera Capital; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXAI seeks a Lead Engineer for Transmission & Distribution to design, build, operate, and maintain high‑capacity power systems for AI training campuses. Based in Memphis, TN, you will lead a small on‑site team and coordinate with the utility and balancing authority to energize campuses on schedule.

You will own switchyard architecture, interconnection studies, protection philosophy, and safety programs, while guiding a multidisciplinary engineering team through fast‑paced, high‑stress

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline.
• 10+ years in transmission, substation, or generation interconnection engineering, with a focus on high‑power, high‑voltage systems.
• Experience carrying a project through utility or ISO interconnection to energization.

Responsibilities

• Own generation terminals and interconnection to medium‑voltage bus, switchyards, and utility relationships.
• Lead high‑voltage switchyard architecture, GIS vs AIS tradeoffs, and fault‑current management.
• Lead interconnection processes with local distributor and balancing authority, including studies and service agreement exhibits.
• Own campus protection philosophy and the settings management database for Data Center and Battery Storage.
• Own campus power systems studies: load flow, short circuit, coordination, arc flash, stability.
• Own generation electrical interface: excitation, governor, synchronization, protection, black start.
• Own regulatory and compliance scope: service agreements, NERC/SERC standards, air‑permitting, AHJ.
• Own campus electrical safety program: NFPA 70E, arc‑flash, energized work permitting, training, and switching authorization.
• Direct Design, Ops/Build, Protection & Controls, and Power System Engineer seats on the T&D team.

Skills

PE license

IEEE standards

GIS AIS 161/230/345kV

Interconnection experience

ETAP SKM PSS/E

Team leadership

On-site energization

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

ETAP

SKM

PSS/E

PSCAD

ASPEN

MATLAB

Job description

SpaceXAI seeks a Lead Engineer for Transmission & Distribution to design, build, operate, and maintain high‑capacity power systems for AI training campuses. Based in Memphis, TN, you will lead a small on‑site team and coordinate with the utility and balancing authority to energize campuses on schedule.

You will own switchyard architecture, interconnection studies, protection philosophy, and safety programs, while guiding a multidisciplinary engineering team through fast‑paced, high‑stress