Electrical Engineer - IC
Lead Electrical Engineer
Mission Critical Infrastructure | Owner's Side
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Compensation: $180,000-$250,000 Base Salary + Annual Bonus + RSUs + 100% Employer-Paid Benefits
A leading owner and developer of large-scale digital infrastructure is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer to support the design and delivery of next-generation data center campuses across North America.
This is a senior-level individual contributor position offering the opportunity to remain deeply technical while influencing some of the industry's most complex and innovative mission-critical projects. The successful candidate will serve as a key electrical engineering subject matter expert, partnering with internal stakeholders, consultants, contractors, utilities, and operations teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for electrical systems supporting hyperscale and mission-critical developments.
- Review and guide designs for medium-voltage and low-voltage power distribution systems, substations, switchgear, UPS systems, generators, and related critical infrastructure.
- Support site selection, utility coordination, feasibility studies, due diligence efforts, and infrastructure planning.
- Develop and maintain electrical engineering standards and best practices.
- Collaborate with external engineering consultants to ensure consistency, quality, and system reliability across projects.
- Participate in design reviews, technical risk assessments, constructability reviews, and value engineering initiatives.
- Support equipment procurement, factory witness testing, commissioning, startup, and operational turnover.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and power infrastructure strategies supporting high-density compute and AI-driven workloads.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- 10+ years of experience supporting mission-critical, data center, utility, industrial, or other critical infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of power distribution systems, substations, generators, UPS systems, protective relaying, grounding, and electrical reliability principles.
- Experience supporting projects from design through construction and commissioning.
- Ability to provide owner-side technical oversight and effectively manage consultant deliverables.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Experience
- Data center owner, developer, hyperscale, colocation, or mission-critical consulting experience.
- Experience supporting large-scale utility interconnections and high-density compute environments.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred.
- Experience developing engineering standards across multiple projects or sites.
Why Join?
- Fully remote opportunity with a growing infrastructure platform.
- Direct influence on large-scale, cutting-edge data center developments.
- Opportunity to remain a hands-on technical leader without moving into people management.
- Significant exposure to executive leadership and strategic capital projects.
- Competitive compensation package including:
- $180,000-$250,000 base salary
- Annual performance bonus
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 100% employer-paid medical benefits
- Retirement and wellness programs
If you're passionate about solving complex power and infrastructure challenges and want to help shape the future of digital infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.
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