Lead Electrical CAD Engineer - Data Center Infrastructure

About the role

The Lead Electrical CAD Engineer is responsible for developing, releasing, and maintaining electrical schematics, panel layouts, and wiring designs for mission-critical power and cooling products. This role ensures compliance with safety standards, regional regulations, and customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Independently develop and maintain electrical schematics, panel layouts, and wiring designs for complex industrial systems using EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical, SolidWorks Electrical and/or Edge Electrical.
• Design and document power distribution, protection, grounding, and control circuits supporting power distribution and cooling platforms.
• Ensure electrical designs meet functional performance, safety, reliability, and serviceability requirements across operating conditions.
• Resolve electrical packaging and integration challenges in coordination with mechanical layouts, thermal constraints, and enclosure architectures.
• Execute configuration-controlled electrical designs supporting multiple product variants, options, and regional variations.
• Maintain stability and traceability of electrical designs as engineering changes are introduced.
• Implement engineering changes (ECR/ECNs) efficiently while preserving compliance, backward compatibility, and production continuity.
• Ensure accurate synchronization between schematics, wiring diagrams, panel layouts, BOMs, and PLM system records throughout the product lifecycle.
• Design electrical systems that comply with applicable IEC, UL, and regional standards, as well as customer-specific specifications.
• Apply sound engineering judgment to ensure electrical safety, fault protection, arc mitigation, grounding, and clearance/creepage requirements.
• Support internal and external compliance activities by providing accurate documentation and responding to design-related findings.
• Support prototype builds, production ramp-up, and manufacturing issue resolution through direct design updates and clarifications.
• Collaborate closely with mechanical engineering to ensure electrical/mechanical fit, clearance, airflow, and thermal compatibility.
• Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and production teams to address build issues, component substitutions, and all feedback.
• Participate in technical design reviews and release readiness activities as a senior technical contributor.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of electrical CAD practices, documentation clarity, and configuration discipline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of hands-on electrical CAD design experience with industrial or infrastructure-class equipment.
• Strong proficiency in EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical, SolidWorks Electrical, and/or Edge Electrical.
• Demonstrated experience designing power distribution and control systems for complex, multi-variant products.
• Working knowledge of IEC, UL, and regional electrical compliance requirements.
• Ability to independently execute and own complex electrical designs with minimal oversight.

Preferred Experience

• Electrical design experience for power and cooling systems, switchgear, transformers, busway, PDCs, CDUs, chillers, or thermally-intensive infrastructure.
• Experience with switchgear, control panels, and industrial power systems.
• Proven background in panel layout, wire routing, and electrical/mechanical integration.
• Familiarity with PLM systems and formal product release and change control processes.
• Experience supporting both NPI and sustaining engineering in production environments.

Core Competencies

• Senior-level, hands-on electrical CAD execution.
• Strong configuration and documentation discipline.
• Deep understanding of electrical safety and compliance.
• Cross-domain collaboration with mechanical and thermal engineering.
• High attention to detail under fast-paced change conditions.
• Independent technical ownership without managerial responsibility.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during the first year of employment.
• 4 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays).
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Employee stock purchase plan.