Protection & Controls Engineer

About the role

The Protection & Controls Engineer is responsible for protection schemes, relay settings, and controls design for Hut 8's high-voltage systems across the program. Reporting to the Principal, HV Engineering, this role supports commissioning, coordination studies, and utility acceptance for the substations and interconnections serving our data center campuses. P&C talent is the scarcest discipline in our build program—this seat carries real authority over how our facilities are protected and how fast they energize.

• Protection & Controls Design
  • Develop and review protection schemes, relay panel arrangements, and control designs for HV substations and interconnection facilities.
  • Produce and review AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, and logic diagrams.
  • Specify protective relays (SEL platforms), RTUs, meters, and panel equipment against utility, NERC, IEEE, and ANSI requirements.
• Relay Settings & Setting Philosophy
  • Develop, review, and manage relay settings files and the program's setting philosophy.
  • Own settings version control and the reconciliation between issued settings, as-left settings, and study models—the discipline that prevents mis-operations.
• Studies
  • Perform and validate protection coordination, fault, and arc-flash studies (ASPEN/CAPE), coordinating with the Application Engineer on system models, equipment ratings, and interconnection study requirements.
• Utility Coordination & Acceptance
  • Support interconnection protection requirements, protection review packages, SCADA/RTU point lists, and witness testing with serving utilities.
  • Drive utility comments to resolution through energization and maintain compliance documentation (including NERC PRC-related records where applicable).
• Commissioning & Field Support
  • Support factory and site acceptance testing, relay functional testing, and end-to-end testing with NETA firms during commissioning.
  • Provide field support during construction and energization—troubleshooting protection and controls issues with contractors, testing firms, and utility personnel in real time.
• Standards & Program Building
  • Build Hut 8's P&C standards: templates, panel typicals, settings libraries, and testing requirements.
  • Review vendor drawings for P&C scope across projects and mentor the Project Engineer (HV/MV) on protection fundamentals.

Requirements

• 5+ years of protection and controls engineering for HV substations, transmission, or utility interconnections (69kV-345kV).
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering; PE license preferred.
• Strong hands-on depth with protective relaying—SEL platforms strongly preferred—including scheme design, settings development, and event analysis.
• Coordination and fault study fluency in ASPEN or CAPE; comfort defending your settings to a utility.
• Working knowledge of NERC PRC standards and utility interconnection protection processes.
• Commissioning experience: relay functional testing, end-to-end tests, and working alongside NETA field crews.
• SCADA/RTU and communications-assisted protection familiarity (mirrored bits, fiber schemes) a plus.
• Rigorous documentation habits—settings control is a discipline, not a chore.
• Willing to travel for factory tests, energizations, and utility meetings (typically 20-35%).

Schedule

Full-time in-office role.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
• Paid time off.

About the company

Hut 8 is on a mission to build and operate some of the world’s largest data centers for next-generation computing workloads, including AI, Colocation, Cloud, and Bitcoin Mining. We offer interesting and challenging opportunities for individuals who want to build teams, solve problems, and make an impact from day one.

At Hut 8, you will:

• Work with bright, driven peers from a range of educational and professional backgrounds including software development, energy, engineering, entrepreneurship, investment banking, private equity, and management consulting.
• Design and pitch new products, services, and other initiatives to a leadership team consisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives backed by a board of directors of industry veterans in energy, finance, and government.
• Debate ideas and alternatives in a truly meritocratic setting where the learning curve is steep and the lessons come from both senior and junior members of the team.
• Build a lifelong network of friends and professional connections at the cutting-edge intersection of technology, energy, and infrastructure.