Lead Engineer, Data Center Electrical - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 7 October 2026 by the employer.
This is a grid-to-chip role, assessing utility and onsite power interfaces, substations, medium- and low-voltage distribution, backup systems, and the final connection to GPU racks.
About the role
This role provides technical leadership for the electrical design and validation of large-scale AI data centers. The scope spans utility and onsite power interfaces, substations, medium- and low-voltage distribution, backup systems, and the final connection to GPU racks.
What you'll do
- Own the electrical content of AMD’s AI data center Basis of Design (BOD).
- Validate the power path from utility service or behind-the-meter generation through interconnects, substations, transformers, and low-voltage switchgear.
- Review load-flow, short-circuit, protection-coordination, selectivity, grounding, arc-flash, harmonic, and power-quality studies.
- Evaluate voltage and frequency stability, load-step response, UPS ride-through, generator synchronization, and transfer behavior.
- Define EPMS telemetry, alarms, metering, and reporting to verify capacity and diagnose electrical events.
- Partner with mechanical, controls, compute, and tenant fit-out teams for alignment on electrical capacity and commissioning boundaries.
What you'll need
- Substantial experience with mission-critical or large-scale electrical infrastructure.
- Ability to model and evaluate power systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Experience designing, reviewing, operating, or commissioning medium- and low-voltage electrical infrastructure for hyperscale, AI, HPC, utility, or industrial facilities.
- Knowledge of utility interfaces, substations, transformers, switchgear, busways, UPS systems, generators, batteries, relays, grounding, and rack-level power distribution.
- Experience creating or reviewing electrical BODs, single-line diagrams, calculation packages, equipment specifications, and early-stage design packages.
- Ability to evaluate redundancy, selectivity, power quality, transient performance, and maintenance scenarios using ETAP, SKM, or comparable tools.
- Experience assessing high-density compute load profiles, diversity models, modular capacity blocks, and staged energization or sectional commissioning.
- Familiarity with EPMS integration, behind-the-meter power, microgrids, battery storage, and emerging data center power architectures.
- Master’s degree and/or Professional Engineer license.
This role has been open 1 day — well below the 53-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3718
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Median days open
53 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (3718 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 3718 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 51 | 9732 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 70 d | 53 d (+17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 613 open roles · median 52 d
- Lam Research · 545 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 269 open roles · median 44 d
- KLA Corporation · 254 open roles · median 66 d
- ASML · 198 open roles · median 64 d
- ASM International · 157 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 3718 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.