Senior Electrical Engineer - Power Specialist (Hyperscale Data Center)

Job Description

Job Description

Sr. Electrical Engineer – Power Specialist (Hyperscale Data Center)

Austin, TX

We represent a privately held real estate investment and development group backed by a highly capitalized single-family office. The company owns, operates, and develops a national portfolio of mission-critical, life science, R&D, and hyperscale data center facilities. They are not a contractor or consultant—this is the owner/operator who builds, controls, and manages all major technical decisions in-house.

The firm currently has several major projects active in the Austin region, including a $450M redevelopment of a 1M sq. ft. campus with a planned 70MW+ electrical and power infrastructure program. Beyond Austin, they continue to expand nationally with new data center, power-intensive, and technology-driven developments already in planning.

This is a highly stable, well-funded organization with a long-term investment horizon, strong leadership, and a commitment to building best-in-class infrastructure. Their model is strategic, private, and patient—allowing engineers the ability to perform high-quality work without the bureaucracy of large corporate environments.

Why Engineers Find This Opportunity Unique:
- Direct role with the owner, not a GC or consulting firm
- Influence over electrical design direction and infrastructure strategy
- Oversight of major MW-scale power systems, redundancy, and campus-level distribution
- Support from an established Austin-based team and national development platform
- Significant long-term growth as the company expands into multiple regions

Job Summary

A client-confidential global developer is seeking a Sr. Electrical Engineer / Power Specialist to support the electrical design and power engineering for an upcoming hyper-scale data center redevelopment in Austin, TX, This role focuses heavily on electrical design, MV/HV distribution, utility coordination, and commissioning across current and future large-scale life science, mission-critical and data center campuses globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the electrical/ power decisions from ownership side for all major projects both current and future.

• Develop and review electrical engineering plans including medium-voltage (MV), high-voltage (HV), switchgear, UPS, generators, and substations.

• Oversee power distribution, redundancy strategy, load analysis, and electrical modeling.

• Manage utility coordination, interconnection, and long-term power capacity planning.

• Standardize electrical engineering requirements, specifications, and guidelines.

* Full lifecycle: design – procurement –construction - FAT/IST – commissioning.

* Collaborate with internal Austin construction team- multiple disciplines.

• Work closely with engineering consultants, contractors, and commissioning teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Master’s preferred).

• 5+ years of experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, or power engineering.

• Strong knowledge of critical infrastructure, MV/HV electrical systems, substation design, UPS, generators, and critical power.

• Experience in the electrical design phase required.

• Professional Engineering license(s) in Texas a plus.

• Experience with hyperscale environments strongly preferred

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting 50MW+ data center campuses.

• Familiarity with life science, R&D, or advanced manufacturing electrical systems.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.

• Strong communication and coordination skills.

Benefits

• Opportunity to join an expanding global developer.

• Owner-side influence on all major electrical/ power decisions.

• Competitive pay + annual bonus + long-term incentive + full benefits

• Long-term growth across multiple high profile campuses.