Electrical Engineer - Data Center Power Generation

Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by Soft Bank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a Soft Bank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, Soft Bank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States.

Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

The Electrical Engineer - Data Center Power Generation will serve as SB Energy’s owner-side electrical engineering subject matter expert for simple-cycle and combined-cycle gas power generation projects. This role will provide technical oversight throughout engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover, helping ensure electrical systems meet project requirements and support safe, reliable plant operation.

The engineer will coordinate electrical design interfaces among original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors, consultants, and SB Energy’s internal teams. Key responsibilities include reviewing design packages, resolving technical questions, and developing coordinated owner responses to requests for information (RFIs), submittals, and proposed design changes.

• Serve as the owner’s electrical engineering SME for simple-cycle and combined-cycle gas generation projects, providing technical guidance from initial design through commissioning and closeout.
• Review electrical design criteria, specifications, calculations, drawings, and equipment selections for alignment with contractual requirements, applicable codes and standards, and plant operating needs.
• Review plant electrical systems, including generator connections, generator step-up and auxiliary transformers, medium- and low-voltage distribution, switch gear, motor control centers, emergency power, DC and UPS systems, grounding, lightning protection, and cable systems.
• Review electrical studies, including load flow, short circuit, protective device coordination, arc flash, motor starting, and grounding; coordinate specialized analyses with qualified internal and external resources.
• Evaluate designs for constructability, maintainability, equipment access, system reliability, and integration with plant operations.
• Identify technical gaps, conflicting requirements, and design risks; track resolution and elevate issues affecting safety, performance, cost, or schedule.

• Coordinate electrical interfaces among gas turbine, steam turbine, generator, and balance-of-plant OEMs…