Principal Electrical Engineer, Power Systems
About the role
Superpower is a 42 MW gas turbine built to power AI data centers. This is a load profile that doesn't behave like anything the grid was designed around, on a timeline the power industry doesn't usually move on. The electrical system is what makes the engine possible: how it senses itself, protects itself, and delivers power reliably under conditions nothing else has been built to handle. We're looking for a principal electrical engineer to own that system. This isn’t a narrow role. You will work across the full electrical scope of the engine, including power distribution, protection, instrumentation, and controls interfaces. These aren't separate workstreams. They're one system, and someone needs to own it end to end. If you've been the person in the room who actually knows how the whole electrical system fits together and wants to build one from a blank sheet, this is that job.
Responsibilities
- Own the electrical architecture for major portions of Superpower, such as power distribution, protection, instrumentation, and controls interfaces; ownership spans from first concept through finalized and validated, running hardware.
- Design and build the systems that monitor, protect, and sense the engine under real operating conditions.
- Partner directly with propulsion, mechanical, controls, and test engineering to integrate electrical systems into a gas turbine platform built from scratch.
- Effectively manage vendor relationships for critical pieces of outsourced hardware.
- Lead root‑cause investigation when hardware doesn't behave as modeled, in real time during a test.
- Set technical direction for other engineers working within your system.
Requirements
- Owned electrical systems end to end, from architecture through schematic capture, hardware bring‑up, and field validation.
- Think in systems and