Director Generation Electrical Engineering — Power and Energy Houston

Houston; US

About Nscale

At Nscale, we are building the infrastructure for the AI revolution. Nscale is developing cutting-edge, sovereign generative AI solutions powered by a new generation of high-performance, sustainable data centers and GPUs built specifically for AI workloads.

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving unprecedented global demand for compute and GPU infrastructure. Positioned at the heart of this transformation, Nscale is delivering the platforms that will enable the next decade of innovation.

Working closely with the world's most advanced AI technology providers — including Microsoft and NVIDIA — Nscale integrates next-generation compute hardware and GPU clusters across both partner and self-delivered facilities. This is a unique opportunity to join Nscale's journey, play a pivotal role in delivering transformative AI infrastructure, and help shape a company designed to scale rapidly across North America, Europe, and beyond.

About the Role

We are hiring a Director, Generation Electrical Engineering to own the electrical power system design of Nscale's generation facilities, from generator terminals to the data center boundary.

Nscale's Power and Energy group develops behind-the-meter generation colocated with our data center campuses: large reciprocating engine fleets, battery energy storage systems, and medium- and high-voltage distribution operating as islanded microgrids. Building gigawatts of island-mode generation that is safe, buildable, and operable for decades demands owner's engineering of a kind that cannot be outsourced, and this role owns that engineering.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You will set the electrical design basis for our generation facilities, drive the engineering through one-line development, equipment specification, power system studies, and construction, and manage the specialist engineers, consultants, and OEM technical teams doing the work. You will be the owner's technical authority on the electrical scope, directing the work of EPC partners rather than simply accepting it, and resolving the design questions where island-mode generation at this scale has no off-the-shelf answer.

You will work alongside a peer Director, Generation Controls, Protection, and Automation. The split is deliberate: this role owns the power system itself — the equipment, its configuration, and its design basis. Your peer owns how that system is controlled and protected. The two scopes succeed or fail together, and close partnership is part of the job.

Location: Houston, TX (remote considered within the US, with regular site and vendor travel)

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the electrical design basis for generation facilities: one‑line diagrams, system architecture, voltage selection, redundancy philosophy, and expansion provisions across generation, BESS, and distribution scopes.
• Direct the power system studies that drive the design — load flow, short circuit, motor starting, harmonics, insulation coordination, and grounding — performed in-house or through consultants, and own the study models as living engineering assets.
• Resolve island‑mode design questions where standard utility and data center practice does not directly apply: fault levels dominated by machine and inverter sources, neutral grounding strategy, and equipment duty under sustained islanded operation.
• Engineer the plant auxiliary electrical systems that keep generation available: station power architecture, black start auxiliary supply, motor and heater loads, and essential DC systems.

Equipment engineering and vendor packages

• Own technical specifications, bid evaluations, and vendor drawing reviews for major electrical…