Director, OFCI Equipment Procurement Engineering

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!

SB Energy is seeking a highly technical and strategic Director, OFCI Equipment Procurement Engineering to build and lead a centralized procurement engineering organization supporting the deployment of next-generation AI factory and advanced data center infrastructure programs.

Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, this role will establish and oversee procurement engineering standards, supplier technical qualification processes, manufacturing capability assessments, factory testing validation programs, and equipment quality assurance frameworks for mission-critical OFCI infrastructure equipment.

The Director will serve as the primary technical interface between supply chain, engineering, construction, commissioning, OEM suppliers, and manufacturing organizations to ensure equipment performance, manufacturability, reliability, quality, and deployment readiness align with SB Energy’s infrastructure standards and hyperscale deployment objectives.

This role will lead development of a procurement engineering team responsible for Basis of Design (BOD) technical alignment, supplier manufacturing evaluations, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), factory witness testing validation, supplier quality audits, and technical risk management across critical electrical, thermal, modular, and power infrastructure systems.

The ideal candidate combines deep engineering expertise with supplier quality management, manufacturing operations, mission-critical infrastructure knowledge, commissioning coordination, and organizational leadership experience within large-scale industrial, energy, utility, advanced manufacturing, or hyperscale data center environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering fundamentals with practical experience in mission-critical infrastructure equipment, supplier quality management, manufacturing processes, factory testing, and deployment execution within data center, industrial, utility, energy, or advanced manufacturing environments.

• Build and lead the OFCI Equipment Procurement Engineering organization supporting hyperscale AI infrastructure and advanced data center deployment programs
• Develop procurement engineering standards, operating procedures, technical review frameworks, and supplier qualification processes
• Lead development, standardization, and governance of OFCI equipment Basis of Design (BOD) requirements across infrastructure deployment programs
• Oversee technical evaluation and qualification processes for mission-critical infrastructure equipment suppliers
• Lead technical review activities for, equipment specifications,…