Principal Electrical Engineer - Protection & Controls Engineer

Job Description

Own the protection and controls technical baseline for large-scale data centers, including on-site generation, HV substations, energy storage systems, and MV/LV distribution. Define the protection philosophy and standards, ensure consistent implementation across projects, and provide technical approval of protection designs, settings, and commissioning validation. Support reliable microgrid operation across grid-connected, islanded, and black start modes, and lead protection-related event response through root cause and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• Establish and maintain protection and controls standards
• Define the protection and controls philosophy, including scheme selection, coordination principles, operating assumptions, and expected system behavior under normal and abnormal conditions
• Review protection design packages, including single line diagrams, relaying and metering diagrams, schematics, logic, and commissioning and test procedures performed by developers, EPCs, OEMs, and consultants, and drive closure on technical gaps and open items
• Develop, validate, and maintain relay settings, protection logic, and protection documentation across protection zones and operating modes
• Experience supporting post-event analysis using oscillography, SER, and disturbance records, and translating findings into durable corrective actions
• Lead protection-related troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions; assess existing facilities and recommend upgrades and replacements
• Partner with operations and design engineering teams to improve reliability outcomes, standard adoption, and consistency across the portfolio

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree: in Electrical Engineering
• Experience: 10-15 years of protection and controls engineering experience across substations, HV/MV Systems, and large campus electrical systems
• Demonstrated experience: protecting on-site generation (rotating and inverter-based) and supporting microgrid operating modes, including grid-connected and islanded operation and transitions
• Experience: developing and reviewing relay settings, protection logic, and commissioning test plans
• Familiarity: with IEEE standards and utility interconnection practices; NERC exposure as applicable to site context

Preferred qualifications

• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Experience: with IEC 61850, relay messaging, time synchronization, and integration through RTAC/SCADA

Disclaimer:

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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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