Electrical Engineer (AI Data Centers)

Location: Remote in the USA, with a San Francisco office option and extensive travel to active construction and commissioning sites.

Annual salary: $217,000–$289,000 for remote USA; $255,000–$340,000 for San Francisco.

Company

Lambda builds AI cloud infrastructure for researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers.

What you will do

• Inspect installed electrical systems against approved designs, specifications, single-line diagrams, and company standards.
• Validate equipment ratings, protection settings, grounding, bonding, phasing, labeling, redundancy, and electrical failure domains.
• Identify deficiencies and operational risks, document punch-list items, and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Review construction test results and witness factory, site, functional, and integrated systems testing.
• Develop and review energization plans, operating procedures, switching procedures, and electrical safety controls.
• Support energization, troubleshooting, commissioning, turnover, and initial IT or GPU-cluster bring-up across data-center electrical systems.

Requirements

• Significant experience delivering, commissioning, or operating electrical systems in data centers, mission-critical facilities, utilities, or large industrial environments.
• Strong knowledge of medium- and low-voltage distribution, transformers, switchgear, protective relays, generators, UPS systems, busway, grounding, and rack-level power.
• Ability to interpret single-line diagrams, protection studies, relay settings, equipment submittals, test reports, and construction documentation.
• Hands-on experience with site inspections, electrical testing, energization, commissioning, or operational turnover.
• Knowledge of electrical safety, lockout/tagout, energized-work controls, NEC, NFPA 70E, IEEE, and NETA requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent practical experience; willingness to travel extensively and spend extended periods at active sites.

Nice to have

• Experience with hyperscale, colocation, HPC, or AI data centers and first energization.
• Experience with Level 1–5 commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational-readiness processes.
• Protective-relay, breaker, insulation-resistance, power-quality, or infrared testing experience.
• Experience with ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, Procore, Bluebeam, or commissioning-management platforms.
• Professional Engineer licensure, commissioning certification, or NETA-related experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with cash and equity compensation.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for USA employees.
• Flexible paid time off, with wellness and commuter stipends available for select roles.