Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer

OpenAI

Senior Engineer developing reliable power architectures for high-density AI data centers. Collaborating across teams to optimize and support facility and rack power systems integration.

Posted 8/1/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $257,000 - $327,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in electrical engineering for mission-critical facilities, focusing on power distribution, equipment specifications, and system testing. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable and efficient electrical system designs.

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Electrical Engineering ExperienceMV/LV DistributionIntegrated Systems TestingCodes and Standards ComplianceStrong Communication Skills

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Hard Skills

Power DistributionTransformersSwitchgearGeneratorsUPS SystemsBatteriesProtection SystemsElectrical DesignCommissioning PlansFailure-Mode Testing

Soft Skills

Written CommunicationVerbal CommunicationProblem-SolvingAdaptabilityCollaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Industry Keywords

Mission-Critical FacilitiesData CentersCritical InfrastructureUtility CoordinationSafety Requirements

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Flash

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and optimize electrical topologies and equipment strategies that reduce cost, accelerate schedules, improve efficiency, increase scalability, and maintain high reliability and maintainability.
Review and develop basis-of-design documents, single-line diagrams, equipment specifications, commissioning plans, and power system studies including load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, arc flash, and grid transient compliance.
Lead technical evaluation of equipment vendors, manufacturers, design consultants, commissioning agents, contractors, and test labs. Review submittals, schematics, certifications, quality records, and test reports.
Evaluate AC and DC power distribution options for high-density compute, including rectifier architectures, busway, rack power shelves, power supplies, cable management, redundancy strategies, serviceability, and fault isolation.
Partner with mechanical, cooling, controls, hardware, networking, construction, and operations teams to ensure electrical systems support liquid-cooled GPU rack deployments and reliable facility operation.
Drive FAT, SAT, witness testing, burn-in, reliability testing, interoperability testing, and integrated systems testing for critical infrastructure and rack deployments.
Help guide and operate an R&D program to validate new equipment, rack designs, telemetry, operating envelopes, failure scenarios, and facility-to-hardware interactions.
Define telemetry and controls requirements including metering, waveform capture, breaker and relay status, UPS and battery health, generator status, rack power, CDU status, coolant conditions, alarms, and control states.
Analyze lab data, operational incidents, power quality events, nuisance trips, thermal excursions, controls alarms, and rack-level failures to improve designs, procedures, vendor quality, and reliability models.
Create engineering standards, test procedures, commissioning scripts, operating procedures, decision records, risk registers, and concise executive summaries.
Provide senior technical escalation support during design reviews, construction, manufacturing validation, commissioning, energization, deployment, and operational events.
Raise the technical bar across partner teams in electrical design, safety, testing discipline, documentation quality, reliability, and operational rigors.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of electrical engineering experience in mission-critical facilities such as data centers or comparable critical infrastructure.
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, power systems, or a related discipline.
Strong hands-on experience with MV/LV distribution, transformers, switchgear, switchboards, generators, UPS systems, batteries, PDUs, RPPs, busway, PSUs, grounding, bonding, and protection systems.
Experience producing and reviewing electrical designs, studies, equipment specifications, commissioning plans, test procedures, and acceptance criteria.
Experience leading FWTs, FATs, SATs, integrated systems testing, failure-mode testing, and root-cause investigations.
Strong understanding of codes, standards, utility coordination, safety requirements, and AHJ processes.
Ability to evaluate conflicting technical tradeoffs involving reliability, cost, schedule, constructability, maintainability, and scalability.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with incomplete information and changing priorities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
Mental health and wellness support
Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
Relocation support for eligible employees
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.