FluidStack
Electrical Engineer, Protection and Controls, R&D
About this role
Fluidstack seeks an experienced Electrical Engineer to design and implement protection and control systems for large-scale AI compute data center campuses. You'll own relay coordination, SCADA integration, and commissioning across generation and distribution infrastructure while maintaining safety-critical configuration standards.
What you'll do
- Engineer protection and relaying schemes from generation through campus power distribution
- Develop, verify, and manage relay settings and coordination studies
- Design P&C architecture including relays, communications, and SCADA integration
- Support field commissioning: load settings, test functions, and investigate misoperations
- Own settings files as safety-critical infrastructure with rigorous change management
- Investigate relay event records to understand root causes of operations
What they're looking for
- Protection engineering (MV/HV relay settings and coordination)
- SEL relay platform configuration (hands-on)
- Field commissioning and testing of protection schemes
- Relay event log analysis and troubleshooting
- SCADA integration and communications protocols
- IEC 61850 standards (preferred)
- Generator protection design (preferred)
- NERC PRC compliance knowledge (preferred)
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FluidStack
FluidStack builds AI infrastructure at scale, developing data centers and warehouse operations designed to handle gigawatt-capacity compute deployment. The company is hiring for warehouse engineers, data center operations specialists, product engineers, and people leaders to support rapid infrastructure expansion across multiple sites.
- Website
- fluidstack.io
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a coordination study you've performed for MV or HV systems—how did you ensure selectivity and speed?
- Describe your hands-on experience developing and testing settings on SEL relays; what commissioning challenges have you overcome?