Senior Electrical Engineer - Mission Critical Power Systems

Location: Hybrid in Knoxville, TN; Phoenix, AZ; or Dallas, TX, United States. Occasional travel to customer locations, project sites, vendor facilities, and commissioning activities is required.

Salary: $154,200–$223,200 per year, plus benefits and potential performance incentives, bonuses, commissions, or equity.

Company

hirify.global delivers energy infrastructure solutions that provide reliable power and modernize infrastructure across North America, the UK, and Europe.

What you will do

• Lead electrical engineering for large-scale mission-critical data center power projects involving generation, storage, substations, utility interconnections, microgrids, and medium- and high-voltage distribution.
• Develop electrical bases of design, conceptual and preliminary designs, one-line diagrams, site layouts, protection and control architectures, grounding, communications, and auxiliary power systems.
• Establish reliability, redundancy, availability, maintainability, stability, transient-response, black-start, and phased-load-growth criteria.
• Perform or oversee load-flow, short-circuit, protection-coordination, arc-flash, harmonic, grounding, transient-stability, reactive-power, and generator or inverter integration studies.
• Prepare technical requirements and procurement specifications; evaluate equipment, vendors, delivery schedules, warranties, testing, and service considerations.
• Support utility interconnections, third-party engineer oversight, design and constructability reviews, customer workshops, commissioning, and testing of electrical equipment.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited college or university.
• At least 8 years of progressively responsible electrical engineering experience, including significant experience with power generation, substations, utility interconnection, industrial power systems, or mission-critical electrical infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience developing and reviewing medium- and high-voltage electrical systems, power-system studies, equipment specifications, protection and control systems, and electrical design documentation.
• Ability to review confidential US security information.
• Strong written and verbal communication, leadership, initiative, attention to detail, problem-solving, prioritization, scheduling, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to interpret one-line schematics, wiring diagrams, studies, specifications, construction drawings, and commissioning documentation; working knowledge of NFPA, IEEE, ANSI, NEMA, UL, National Electrical Code, utility, and jurisdictional requirements.
• Ability to travel to project sites, customer meetings, vendor facilities, and commissioning activities as required.
• Experience with mission-critical or hyperscale data centers, large on-site power plants, 69 kV-and-above substations, islanded systems, microgrids, grid-forming resources, black-start systems, load shedding, generator dispatch, restoration sequences, and inverter-based resources.
• Experience with dynamic data center loads, UPS systems, rapid load changes, block loading, and AI or high-performance-computing load profiles.
• Experience with electrical analysis, design, controls, and communications tools including ETAP, SKM PowerTools, EasyPower, PSCAD, PSS/E, PowerFactory, ASPEN, AutoCAD, Revit, BIM, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, SCADA, energy management systems, microgrid controllers, protective relays, metering, and industrial communications protocols.
• Experience preparing or reviewing utility interconnection applications and related studies, working within an EPC or architectural and engineering consulting firm, supervising engineers, managing consultants, and reviewing engineer-of-record deliverables.

Nice to have

• Current Professional Engineer license in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience supporting projects through development, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operation.
• Familiarity with project cost estimating, equipment procurement, technical bid evaluations, construction schedules, and commercial risk assessment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a hybrid work arrangement.
• Health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other employee benefits.
• Potential performance incentives, bonuses, commissions, or equity depending on the role.
• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
• Official communications originate from an @hirify.global.com email address; communications from other domains should be treated as fraudulent.