Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical — Data Center Operations

Role description

Fluidstack is seeking a Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical to serve as the most senior technical authority for the operational electrical infrastructure across their hyperscale AI data center portfolio.

Requirements

• Serve as the principal operational technical authority for electrical infrastructure across the fleet, including utility feeds, substations, transformers, MV/HV switchgear, generators, ATS/STS, UPS, battery systems, PDUs, RPPs, and busway distribution.
• Lead technical and operational site audits across active and pre-activation sites; produce operational health assessments with prioritized findings and own the remediation roadmap through closure with site leadership.
• Own electrical operational readiness for new sites coming online — assess team capability, validate procedures, and personally sign off on operational handover from commissioning to steady-state operations.
• Review operational designs for new builds and capacity upgrades; represent the operational point of view in design forums and ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability concerns are surfaced and addressed before they are built in.
• Feed structured operational learnings back into the design and manufacturing organization as we shift toward repeatable, productized data center builds; reinforce patterns that work and drive out patterns that have not held up in operations.
• Author and approve high-risk MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs; serve as the final technical approver for high-consequence electrical work across the fleet.
• Lead root cause analysis for significant electrical events; drive corrective actions through to closure and ensure learnings propagate across all sites.
• Contribute to and uphold the electrical safety program in partnership with EHS, with explicit accountability for NFPA 70E compliance, LOTO, and arc flash discipline across operations and contracted labor.
• Partner with QA/QC during construction to provide an operational perspective on workmanship, installation quality, and pre-energization readiness.
• Build and deliver technical training to Field Engineers and operational teams; own the technical curriculum for electrical content in the campus rotation and training model.
• Mentor Field Engineers and rising operational leaders; act as the senior technical voice in operational reviews, incident reviews, and design reviews.

Benefits

• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms