Microgrid Architect Lead, Power Generation

The role

The Microgrid Architect Lead will design and build islanded power grids at gigawatt scale for AI infrastructure. This person will own the design basis, write grid codes, and build models for generation, storage, and reserve sizing.

What you will do

• Own the design basis including voltage levels, topology, and redundancy boundaries
• Treat the power block as a repeatable product to drive out variation
• Write the internal grid code and hold vendors to it
• Produce generation, BESS, and reserve sizing and load flow results
• Set stability, protection, and phasing
• Define loss-of-largest-unit contingency and load shedding schemes
• Go to site to fold commissioning findings into standard revisions
• Hire specialists in protection, studies, and operations

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in power system design and studies for islanded or weak-grid systems
• Experience with EMT and load flow modeling, protection, and grid-forming inverter integration
• Delivered a real islanded or very weak-grid power system at 100MW or more
• Ability to build models personally including deep EMT work, load flow, short circuit, and stability results
• Experience designing around grid-forming inverter control and inverter-dominated protection
• Experience owning a system design basis that vendors were held to
• Comfortable with regular travel of 25% or more

Nice to have

• ERCOT market and interconnection dynamics
• HV substation design at 230kV and above
• Professional Engineer licence
• Lean practice applied to design and build
• Load shedding and dispatch schemes that treat flexible load as a participating resource
• Utility control room and switching order design

About the company

Fluidstack delivers compute infrastructure for AI by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They are focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute through speed and scale.