About the Role
Lead the architecture and delivery of safe, resilient, and scalable electrical infrastructure for high-density AI computing environments. Guide projects from technical studies through design, construction, commissioning, operation, and lifecycle improvement.
Responsibilities
- Act as the technical authority for electrical engineering across data center infrastructure projects, from the utility or on-site power source through to the IT rack.
- Lead electrical architecture development through conceptual studies, detailed design, construction, commissioning, operation and lifecycle improvement.
- Develop electrical standards, specifications, reference designs, qualification plans and acceptance criteria for power distribution and conversion systems.
- Define electrical protection and safety approaches for AC and DC systems, including fault detection, interruption, isolation, grounding, stored energy, insulation monitoring, lockout and safe maintenance.
- Develop resilient power solutions for highly dynamic AI and high-performance computing loads, including ride-through, short-duration energy buffering, backup generation, energy storage and utility interconnection.
- Evaluate established and emerging power conversion, protection, control and energy-storage technologies, making clear recommendations based on safety, reliability, efficiency and maintainability.
- Lead technical due diligence, design reviews, failure-mode assessments, factory and site acceptance testing, site inspections and commissioning activities.
- Direct engineering consultants and technology partners, ensuring that designs, calculations, specifications and construction documentation meet project requirements.
- Develop and manage owner’s project requirements and review consultant deliverables, submittals, requests for information and proposed technical changes.
- Collaborate with construction partners during the delivery of laboratory and data hall spaces, supporting site reviews, technical issue resolution and project risk management.
- Partner with teams across IT, silicon, mechanical, thermal, controls, operations and sustainability to resolve cross-disciplinary design challenges.
- Support operational readiness, incident investigation and root-cause analysis, identifying practical improvements to reliability, safety and system performance.
- Engage effectively with authorities, utilities and relevant industry bodies to support compliant project delivery.
- Maintain current knowledge of developments in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure, electrical equipment, engineering standards, codes and regional utility requirements.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across projects without direct people-management responsibility.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, a closely related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Substantial experience delivering mission-critical electrical infrastructure in hyperscale data centers, colocation facilities, semiconductor facilities, utilities or comparable high-availability environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a significant technical area, make independent engineering decisions and influence outcomes across multiple disciplines and external partners.
- Deep knowledge of medium- and low-voltage AC systems and high-power DC distribution systems.
- Strong understanding of power electronics and conversion technologies, including rectifiers, inverters, isolated and non-isolated DC/DC conversion, controls and galvanic isolation.
- Strong knowledge of electrical fault behaviour and protection, including grounding, insulation monitoring, selective coordination, interruption, arc hazards, stored energy and safe maintenance.
- Broad technical knowledge of utility and medium-voltage systems, transformers, switchgear, uninterruptible power supplies, generators, battery energy storage, power distribution units, busway, monitoring and controls.
- Experience designing electrical interfaces for high-density computing or other highly dynamic mission-critical loads.
- Proficiency with ETAP or SKM PowerTools, together with experience using an electromagnetic-transient or power-electronics simulation environment such as PSCAD, EMTP-RV, PLECS, PSIM or MATLAB/Simulink.
- Strong familiarity with applicable North American and international electrical requirements, including relevant NFPA, IEEE, IEC, UL, CSA and local standards.
- Experience directing consultants, reviewing technical deliverables and supporting construction, testing and commissioning activities.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex engineering decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Sound engineering judgement and the ability to lead cross-functional work in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities.
- Professional Engineer licence or equivalent international professional certification (Desirable).
- Experience with behind-the-meter generation, microgrids or other on-site energy systems (Desirable).
- Experience developing, testing or deploying high-power DC data center architectures (Desirable).
- Hands-on experience with emerging transformer, converter or electrical-protection technologies (Desirable).
- Experience integrating battery energy storage, supercapacitors, fuel cells, renewable generation or demand-response capabilities (Desirable).
- Experience designing Tier III or Tier IV data centers, or infrastructure with comparable availability requirements (Desirable).
- Participation in relevant industry standards groups or technical forums (Desirable).
- Experience with reliability engineering, FMEA or FMECA, functional safety, controls, telemetry or operational-technology cybersecurity (Desirable).
- Familiarity with engineering and design tools such as Visio, Bluebeam, AutoCAD or Revit (Desirable).
Skills
- Electrical Engineering
- Data Center Infrastructure
- AI Computing
- Power Distribution
- Power Conversion
- Electrical Protection
- Safety Systems
- AC Systems
- DC Systems
- Power Electronics
- ETAP
- SKM PowerTools
- PSCAD
- EMTP-RV
- PLECS
- PSIM
- MATLAB/Simulink
- NFPA
- IEEE
- IEC
- UL
- CSA
- Communication
- Influencing
- Engineering Judgement
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Reliability Engineering
- FMEA
- FMECA
- Functional Safety
- Controls
- Telemetry
- Cybersecurity
- Visio
- Bluebeam
- AutoCAD
- Revit
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Commuter benefits
- Wellness services
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
About the Company
- Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in artificial intelligence compute.
- We are developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and support the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.
- As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of a family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.
- Together, we share a bold vision to enable advanced artificial intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.
- Graphcore brings together AI researchers, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects to solve complex technical challenges and deliver innovative computing solutions.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone.
- We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us.
- We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
