Principal Power Systems Engineer

The ideal candidate has strong power-systems engineering experience, particularly in utility interconnection, substations, energy storage, on-site generation, and large-load infrastructure. 

Key Responsibilities 

Power Systems Engineering 

• Develop and assess power-system architectures for utility supply, substations, energy storage, load management, on-site generation, and campus electrical interfaces. 

• Produce technical requirements, design criteria, calculations, specifications, and engineering recommendations for site-specific and repeatable fleet solutions. 

• Apply established engineering standards and contribute to the development of global design philosophies, modeling methods, technical acceptance criteria, and validation practices. 

• Identify technical risks, constraints, and opportunities affecting capacity, schedule, resiliency, operability, and future campus expansion. 

• Translate complex grid and power-system issues into clear technical recommendations for project and business stakeholders. 

Utility Interconnection and Grid Engineering 

• Perform technical evaluations of utility capacity, transmission and distribution infrastructure, substations, reliability, power quality, fault duty, and expansion requirements. 

• Support engagement with utilities, transmission providers, ISOs/RTOs, developers, and engineering partners on interconnection and power-delivery solutions. 

• Define and review requirements for interconnection facilities, substations, protection and controls, grounding, and campus electrical interfaces. 

• Evaluate alternatives that may accelerate energization, reduce delivery risk, or unlock additional capacity. 

• Provide technical analyses and engineering support to Energy Contracting during utility negotiations and commercial discussions. 

Early Site Power Engineering 

• Conduct power-system due diligence for prospective data-center sites. 

• Develop conceptual power architectures and compare utility and behind-the-meter alternatives during site selection and early development. 

• Assess interconnection complexity, infrastructure lead times, system reliability, power quality, and long-term expansion potential. 

• Partner with Real Estate, Site Development, Capacity Planning, and Energy Contracting to incorporate power feasibility into site and investment decisions. 

Energy Storage, Load Management, and On-Site Generation 

• Develop engineering analyses and technical requirements for battery energy storage systems, including sizing, controls, protection, operating modes, safety, degradation, and lifecycle performance. 

• Evaluate BESS use cases including resiliency, grid support, load management, transient response, and capacity optimization. 

• Analyze load-curtailment, demand-response, flexible-load, ramp-rate-management, and peak-reduction opportunities with utilities. 

• Develop and assess architectures coordinating utility supply, data-center load, BESS, UPS systems, and on-site generation. 

• Support engineering of natural-gas generation, fuel cells, microgrids, renewable generation, and emerging power technologies. 

• Evaluate generation configuration, synchronization, protection, controls, grounding, black-start capability, islanding, fuel supply, emissions constraints, and maintainability. 

Modeling, Analysis, Testing, and Validation 

• Perform or coordinate load-flow, short-circuit, protection coordination, harmonic, transient, dynamic stability, grounding, and arc-flash studies. 

• Use PSCAD, ETAP, SKM, EMTP, or comparable tools to model interactions among utility systems, generation, BESS, UPS technologies, and dynamic data-center loads. 

• Develop models and analysis methods that account for evolving AI and high-performance-computing load characteristics. 

• Support First-of-a-Kind qualification plans, including factory, laboratory, and site testing for power-system technologies. 

• Define test scenarios and acceptance criteria covering normal operations, transitions, failure modes, recovery, dynamic response, and system interactions. 

• Document results and recommend whether technologies are ready for broader fleet deployment. 

Technology and Partner Engagement 

• Evaluate emerging technologies that may improve power availability, resiliency, utilization, cost, or deployment speed. 

• Work with OEMs, utilities, laboratories, consultants, and engineering partners to resolve technical issues and improve proposed solutions. 

• Contribute technical input to technology qualification roadmaps and standardization efforts. 

• Support the transition of successful site-specific or FOAK solutions into repeatable engineering practices.