Director, Substation & Grid Engineering

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At NScale, our Design and Construction team plays a critical role in delivering data center facilities that are optimized for AI deployments.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an NScaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future

• We are looking for a Director of Substation & Grid Engineering to lead substation and grid engineering design for NScale's data center portfolio.
• This leader will own technical standards for substations, transformers, switch gear, and protection schemes supporting high-density AI/GPU workloads.
• You will own load and generator interconnection applications and studies, serving as the technical lead on interconnection requests to utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and transmission owners.
• You will provide technical support to the Utility Development and Power Procurement organizations on interconnection, grid, and substation topics.
• You will lead a team of Staff Engineers delivering substation and grid engineering design.

• Define technical requirements and design standards for substations, transformers, switch gear, protection, and metering.
• Collaborate with internal and external design teams on one-line diagrams, protection schemes, and redundancy strategies (N, N+1, 2N).
• Oversee fault and reliability studies supporting substation and grid design.
• Define electrical topology and one-line requirements for on-site generation integration, including paralleling, synchronization, islanding, and black-start concepts.
• Establish protection and controls philosophy for generation integration (relaying, coordination, fault duty, grounding, synchronization, load sharing).
• Guide equipment specification for generator sets, switch gear, transformers, e-houses, and balance-of-plant, accounting for long-lead risk.

• Own the preparation, submission, and technical management of load and generator interconnection applications to utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and transmission owners across the portfolio.
• Lead interconnection studies (feasibility, system impact, facilities studies) for both load interconnection and on-site/behind-the-meter generation, tracking queue positions and study timelines.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact with utility and ISO/RTO interconnection engineering teams, resolving technical issues raised during study review.
• Coordinate interconnection agreement technical exhibits (one-lines, protection requirements, metering, telemetry) in partnership with Legal and Energy Procurement.
• Track interconnection queue risk and grid upgrade requirements, escalating schedule or cost impacts to the VP of Power Infrastructure Design and affected project teams.
• Lead and develop a team of Staff Engineers supporting substation and grid engineering.
• Review technical designs and ensure quality and consistency across projects.
• Support career development and technical growth of engineering staff.

• Serve as the substation and grid engineering owner for data center projects from design through energization.
• Visit sites as needed to support commissioning, troubleshooting, and design clarifications.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks related to substation and grid design.

• Partner with Utility Development and AI Load Power Strategy teams to align substation design with utility and load requirements.
• Provide technical support to the Utility Development organization on interconnection processes, grid capacity assessments, and site diligence for new and existing markets.
• Provide technical support to the Power Procurement organization on interconnection timelines, technical risk, and grid constraints that affect power supply agreements and market strategy.
• Communicate technical design trade-offs to…