Staff Data Center Electrical Engineer (27960)

About the role

Supermicro is a leading provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for various industries including Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC, and IoT/Embedded. As one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley, we are expanding our team to attract talented engineers, technologists, and business leaders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversee electrical design for new and retrofit data centers covering power, grounding, lightning protection, and controls.
• Create and update global electrical standards, OPRs, and BOD templates for consistency.
• Prepare and check SLDs, load calculations, power analyses, and arc flash studies.
• Select equipment including generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS, PDUs, busways, and battery backup or supercapacitors.
• Work with mechanical, network, and architectural teams on integrated layouts.
• Manage consultants and vendors to meet specs, codes, and permitting requirements.
• Support site selection and utility coordination, assess grid options, redundancy, and costs.
• Review documents and shop drawings for technical accuracy.
• Lead electrical engineering during construction and commissioning; oversee testing and issue resolution.
• Champion energy efficiency and sustainability, adopting advanced monitoring and control tech.
• Analyze failure modes and resiliency to boost uptime and lower risks.
• Collaborate with Supermicro and Modular Data Center teams on rack-level and modular power integration.
• Develop tools and processes for capacity planning and optimization.
• Document lessons learned and drive continuous improvement in design and delivery.

Additional Responsibilities

• Serve as SME for electrical design, code interpretation, and equipment selection.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Deliver technical training and support design summits and commissioning reviews.
• Join vendor qualification, factory testing, and component evaluation.
• Connect with industry to monitor new technologies in renewable integration, energy storage, and intelligent power distribution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Electrical, Power Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years’ experience in electrical design for large-scale data centers.
• Expertise in MV/LV systems: switchgear, transformers, UPS, PDUs, busways, and backup power.
• Track record managing consultants and vendors from concept to construction.
• Proficient with power modeling (ETAP, SKM) and CAD/Revit.
• Knowledge of safety codes, grounding, lightning protection, and short-circuit/coordination analysis.
• Experience collaborating with mechanical, civil, and network teams.
• Strong project management and communication; able to lead technical meetings with stakeholders.
• Willing to travel domestically and internationally (~20%).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s in Electrical Engineering.
• PE license.
• High-voltage substation, renewables, and grid interconnection experience.
• Knowledge of OCP, Uptime Institute, ASHRAE TC9.9 for data centers.
• Familiarity with power shelves, BBU, supercapacitors, UPS.
• Construction support, commissioning, and system reliability testing experience.
• Global projects and compliance (NEC, IEC, CE).
• Data-driven; skilled in energy efficiency and power analytics.
• Strong interpersonal skills; effective in fast-paced, cross-functional teams.