Electrical Engineer, Substation Design R&D

The role

The engineer will design substation layouts, bus configurations, and equipment specifications for campus interconnection. This includes HV yards and MV distribution substations. The role involves interfacing with utilities and standardizing designs across sites.

What you will do

• Engineer substation designs for campus interconnection
• Own physical and electrical design including layouts, bus configurations, and equipment specs
• Interface with utilities and consultants
• Standardize the substation design across sites

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in HV and MV substation design
• Experience with one-line and physical layout through utility review, construction support, and energization
• Experience designing HV substations including physical, one-line, and protection interfaces
• Experience taking substation packages through utility review
• Ability to specify transformers, breakers, and switchgear at transmission class
• Experience supporting substation construction and energization
• Ability to productize designs
• Comfortable with regular travel of 25% or more
• Work in non-climate-controlled environments including active construction areas, data halls, electrical and mechanical rooms, and outdoor spaces
• Lift, carry, push and pull up to 40 pounds
• Sit, stand, walk, kneel, bend and crouch for long periods
• Wear required personal protective equipment (PPE)

Nice to have

• 138kV-plus experience
• Grounding studies (IEEE 80)
• GIS substations
• Interconnection processes

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They focus on building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.