Senior Manager or Director, Electrical Engineering (Design)

Location:

US, Remote

Position Type:

Full-Time, Permanent

About Nscale

NScale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. NScale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

At NScale, our Design & Construction team plays a critical role in delivering data center facilities that are optimized for AI deployments.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an NScaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future

About the Role

• This is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for the electrical basis of design and engineering governance across multiple U.S. sites.
• Own the electrical basis of design for U.S. data centers, including MV/LV distribution architectures, electrical equipment strategy, and controls/monitoring interfaces.
• Lead the development of facility infrastructure purpose-built for high-density AI deployments, including electrical standards that support rapid scaling, high availability, high power density, and flexibility for future hardware deployments.
• Support electrical technical due diligence for potential greenfield, brownfield, or colocation sites, including assessment/definition of electrical architecture and power delivery constraints.
• The candidate shall be able to work in a dynamic, high-intensity environment and support the DC team achieving project deliverables.

What You’ll be Doing (Responsibilities)

Technical Leadership and Design Ownership

• Lead concept, schematic, and detailed design reviews for new builds and expansions.
• Establish and maintain design standards and reference architectures to enable repeatable, rapid deployment across the U.S.
• Ensure designs meet availability, maintainability, efficiency targets, safety targets, and are suitable for high-density AI workloads.
• Provide engineering support through LLE Equipment procurement, submittals, RFIs, field changes, and issue resolution during construction.
• Vendor and consultant leadership: Select and manage architectural & engineering consultants throughout design process from schematic to construction documents. Enforce quality and documentation standards through document issuance reviews.
• Lead reviews of short-circuit and arc flash studies, including confirming study assumptions, protective device coordination intent, equipment ratings, labeling requirements, and remediation actions needed to meet safety and compliance targets.
• Partner cross-functionally with construction, commissioning, operations, procurement, and product/platform stakeholders to ensure mechanical systems meet business and customer requirements.
• Continuous improvement: Implement lessons learned from deployments, improve reliability and maintainability, and push innovation in cooling and energy efficiency.
• Partner cross-functionally with construction, commissioning, operations, procurement, and product/platform stakeholders to ensure mechanical systems meet business and customer requirements.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of engineers including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development.

Colocation Leasing Support

• Support electrical technical due diligence for potential colocation sites, including assessment of utility feeds, redundancy, power density capability, available capacity headroom, operational maturity, and maintenance practices.
• Review and validate landlord/operator-provided documentation, including basis of design, one-lines, protective device coordination study summaries, sequences of operation, maintenance records, incident history, and commissioning reports.
• Define and negotiate electrical lease exhibits and technical schedules (power capacity commitments, operating envelopes, maintenance windows, response SLAs, change control requirements, and metering/monitoring boundaries).
• Evaluate fit for high-density AI workloads, including constraints on available MW, expansion pathways, generator/UPS topology, and distribution limitations to the white space.

Site Acquisition Support

• Support early-stage site screening by defining electrical utility and constructability requirements (interconnection approach, substation/utility constraints, redundancy targets, equipment yard/room requirements, expansion capacity).
• Lead electrical due diligence for greenfield and brownfield acquisitions, including evaluation of existing infrastructure condition, remaining useful life, maintainability, and upgrade pathways.  
• Assess site constraints and risks that impact electrical design and delivery including MV routing, substation space, protection/coordination constraints, and Space planning for electrical rooms, yards, and equipment setbacks

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering 
• Professional Engineering License
• 5+ years of electrical engineering experience in mission-critical facilities, with significant time in data center design.
• 3+ years in engineering leadership (people leadership and/or leading large multi-site programs)
• Strong understanding of data center electrical systems and reliability concepts, including MV/LV distribution, switchgear and protection, UPS systems, generators, ATS/STS strategy, grounding/bonding, and Commissioning practices for mission-critical electrical infrastructure
• Experience working with U.S. engineering firms, AHJs, and code environments (state/local variations).

Leadership Profile

• Strong presence and decision-making capability
• Pragmatic, risk-based leadership style suited to fast-paced construction environments
• High judgment in high-consequence scenarios
• Ability to challenge delivery teams while maintaining partnership

Equal Opportunities Statement

At NScale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities.  We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

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