Senior Electrical Design Engineer - Data Center Planning & Development

About Nebius AI 

Launched in November 2023, the Nebius AI platform provides high-end infrastructure and tools for training, fine-tuning and inference. Based in Europe with a global footprint we aspire to become the leading AI cloud for AI practitonerts around the world.

Nebius is built around the talents of more than 500 highly skilled engineers with a proven track record in developing sophisticated cloud and ML solutions and designing cutting-edge hardware. This allows all the layers of the Nebius AI cloud – from hardware to UI – to be built in-house, clearly differentiating Nebius from the majority of specialized clouds: Nebius customers get a true hyperscaler-cloud experience tailored for AI practitioners.

As an NVIDIA preferred cloud service provider, Nebius offers the latest NVIDIA GPUs including H100, L40S, with H200 and Blackwell chips coming soon.

Nebius owns a data center in Finland, built from the ground up by the company’s R&D team. We are expanding our infrastructure and plan to add new colocation data centers in Europe and North America already this year, and to build several greenfield DCs in the near future.

Our Finnish data center is home to ISEG, the most powerful commercially available supercomputer in Europe and the 19th most powerful globally (Top 500 list, June 2024). It also epitomizes our commitment to sustainability, with energy efficiency levels significantly above the global average and an innovative system that recovers waste heat to warm 2,000 residential buildings in the nearby town of Mäntsälä.

Nebius is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with R&D and commercial hubs across North America, Europe and Israel.

The role

Nebius AI is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to become part of our data center planning and development organization. This role will be responsible for the power functions planning and design for Nebius data centers.

Role will require to work, individually and in collaboration with internal business partners (technical teams, especially technical project managers and different vendors), to deliver planning and design, and oversee the construction and implementation of the electrical engineering aspects of the data centers.

Candidate must have in-depth and hands-on knowledge of data center electrical equipment, components & designs and proven experience in the in that area. The role will require utmost professionalism in implementation of the created plans and completion of expansion projects and new DC building projects.

You’re welcome to work in our office in Amsterdam, hybrid or remotely.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Plan and implement cost-effective and reliant electrical design and distribution systems
• Work with internal business partners like Technical Project Management, Data Center IT, IT Procurement, Network Engineering, and with external vendors to validate and test installation & operation performance of data center electrical systems
• Create designs which meet and exceed Nebius’s quality benchmarks within our budget capacity
• Seek new designs and amalgamate new technologies within Nebius AI’s data center planning and infrastructure
• Identify and document list of electrical equipment and components required during the build/installation phase

We expect you to have: 

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in an electrical engineering OR 10+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience
• 7+ years of experience in creating electrical design documentation for construction
• 7+ years of experience in commercial and/or industrial electrical design
• In-depth understanding of critical electrical equipment like: power distribution units, electrical switchgear, UPS, diesel generators, automatic & static transfer switches, variable frequency drives etc.
• Good understanding of mechanical equipment and system designs related to data centers
• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, ability to maintain high quality standards

It will be an added bonus if you have:  

Required qualification + one or two certifications like:

• CDCE (Certified Data Center Expert or Equivalent Highest Certification)
• CDCS (Certified Data Center Specialist or Equivalent Intermediate Certification)
• CDCP (Certified Data Center Professional or Equivalent Basic Certification)
• CDCDP (Certified Data Center Design Professional or Equivalent)
• DCIE (Data Center Infrastructure Expert or Equivalent) 

We’re growing and expanding our products every day. If you’re up to the challenge and are excited about AI and ML as much as we are, join us!