Electrical Engineering Team Lead

About the role

Location: Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA, with 30% travel required. Duration: FTE Direct Hire. The Capacity Delivery Team engineers gigawatts from drawing to energized in months, not years, owning technical execution across every build, designing reference designs for scalability, and supporting mission-critical data center and heavy industrial builds.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical engineering across the portfolio: distribution from utility interface to rack, reference design to energization.
• Set and evolve the electrical reference design: switchgear lineups, UPS topology, and busway.
• Make the field electrical calls at build speed and own energization readiness site by site.
• Review consultant studies, short circuit, coordination, arc flash, critically rather than ceremonially.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering supporting hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, utility infrastructure, industrial facilities, power generation, or large-scale engineering projects.
• 3+ years of direct people-management experience leading electrical engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, coaching, performance management, and technical leadership.
• Demonstrated ownership of electrical engineering programs from utility interconnection through energization and operational turnover.
• Experience leading electrical design and execution for medium- and low-voltage power distribution systems, including substations, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, busway, PDUs, generators, grounding systems, and critical power infrastructure.
• Strong experience reviewing and validating short-circuit studies, protective device coordination studies, arc flash studies, load flow studies, and electrical system calculations.
• Experience supporting site energization activities, startup planning, utility coordination, turnover, and operational readiness.
• Experience managing engineering consultants, EORs, EPC partners, contractors, utilities, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Ability to make rapid engineering decisions during active construction and commissioning while balancing safety, reliability, schedule, and cost considerations.
• Experience supporting multiple projects simultaneously across various stages of design, construction, commissioning, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Hyperscale data center experience.
• AI infrastructure experience.
• Utility interconnection experience.
• Behind-the-meter generation experience.
• Experience with ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, SEL Protection Systems, MV/HV infrastructure.
• Experience supporting 100MW+ facilities, campus-scale deployments, modular electrical systems, prefabricated electrical infrastructure.
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Experience supporting commissioning and energization of mission-critical facilities.

What we're looking for

• Led electrical engineering for data center or heavy industrial builds.
• Review protection and coordination studies and find the errors in them.
• Owned energization sequences with utilities and AHJs.
• Field decisions balance speed and safety without trading either away.
• Bonus: PE license, MV and HV distribution, behind-the-meter generation, utility interconnection.

Pay

Pay range: $300K – $365K; offers equity.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.