Director, Pipeline Engineering

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.

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.

We are hiring a Director, Pipeline Engineering to own the engineering of the natural gas transmission pipelines that fuel Nscale's generation campuses, from upstream interconnect to plant fence. Nscale's Power and Energy group develops behind-the-meter generation colocated with our data center campuses: large reciprocating engine fleets served by dedicated, large-diameter gas transmission pipelines moving hundreds of millions of cubic feet per day.

These are not ordinary laterals. The pipeline is also the storage: line pack is the operating inventory that buffers nominations against engine demand, pressure is governed by that inventory balance, and the design of over pressure protection, regulation, and system controls determines whether gigawatts of compute stay online. Much of this work is closer to process engineering than to conventional pipeline design, and this role owns it.

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role built for someone who runs independently, with full delegated ownership of the pipeline scope. You will establish the design basis for our pipelines and demonstrate how it ties to our downstream commitments (engine demand, swing, and availability), drive the engineering through hydraulic design, controls philosophy, and construction, and technically manage the third-party engineering firms and pipeline construction contractors doing the work.

Lines are in delivery today and new lines will follow, so the role owns both the systems being built now and the reference engineering for what comes next. You will sit within the Power and Energy technology organization, working alongside the generation engineering and commissioning teams that depend on the gas you deliver. You will be the owner's technical authority on the pipeline scope, directing the work of consultants and contractors rather than simply accepting it, and resolving the design questions where standard midstream practice does not account for a single customer whose demand can swing with AI workloads.

As the accountable leader for pipeline engineering at Nscale, you will set the design basis, establish the standards, and represent Nscale's position with EPC partners, upstream operators, and executives, and you will be expected to do so from day one.

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

• Own the design basis for Nscale's gas transmission pipelines: hydraulic design, MAOP and pressure regime, line pack and inventory strategy, routing and sizing philosophy, and expansion provisions for future lines.
• Perform and direct steady-state and transient hydraulic modeling of the pipeline systems, and own the models as living engineering assets that answer real operating questions: inventory swing, survival time on line pack, ramp response, and curtailment scenarios.
• Demonstrate explicitly how the pipeline design basis supports downstream commitments: engine fleet demand and turndown, campus availability requirements, and the nominations-versus-consumption balance that governs system pressure.
• Evaluate gas storage and supply resilience options, including line pack…