Principal, Electrical SME

The role

The Electrical SME is an expert embedded in a data center build. This person supports design review and commissioning witness to ensure electrical systems are operable and maintainable at turnover.

What you will do

• Review electrical designs for operability including maintenance access, switching practicality, and redundancy behavior.
• Walk electrical installations at key milestones to flag operability and quality issues.
• Witness NETA acceptance testing and Level 3-5 commissioning.
• Drive operational findings into the Cx log and verify closure.
• Verify electrical turnover packages including test records, one-lines, and as-builts.
• Confirm operator training covers real switching and emergency scenarios.
• Support energization sequences and early operations stabilization.
• Feed operational lessons into Hut 8 electrical standards and future basis-of-design decisions.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in critical facilities electrical operations, commissioning, or NETA-adjacent field roles.
• Deep knowledge of MV/LV switchgear, protective devices, generator and UPS systems, and EPMS/power monitoring.
• Commissioning witness experience through integrated systems testing in mission-critical environments.
• NFPA 70E fluency and real switching/LOTO experience.
• NETA testing literacy.
• Maintainability instincts in design review.
• Turnover documentation rigor.

Nice to have

• Electrical license
• military power background (Navy nuke/Air Force power pro)
• engineering degree

About the company

Hut 8 builds infrastructure for AI and aims to be the defining physical infrastructure company of its generation.